Horace
Woodruff
Kelly
Jr.
aka Kelley
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ancestors 
Husband of
Filomena (Bennett) Kelly
— married
4 Nov 1931 in Philadelphia, PA
Descendants 
Died
at age 56
in Philadelphia, PA
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Feb 2013
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Biography
Horace Woodruff Kelly Jr was born in Philadelphia on August 24, 1904 to Matilda Jane (Tillie) White & Horace Woodruff Kelly.
By 1920, at age 15, Horace was living with his mother and step-father, Clyde Shuster, and working in a hosiery mill his father, Horace Sr, having died three years before.
On Christmas day of 1928 Horace married Helen Mary Balzereit in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia.
Three months after the death of Helen, Horace married 17 year old Mary Bennett. Their first child, Horace III, was born in 1932 and their last child, Jeanette, in 1935.
In 1937 Horace & Mary lost 17 month old Jeanette to pneumonia. Three months later 5 year old Horace III succumbed to injuries suffered from severe burns received during a bonfire in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, PA.
On June 5, 1961, at age 56, Horace W Kelly Jr fell down a flight of stairs to his death. He is buried in Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia along with his children Jeanette & Horace III.
Sources
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Horace by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Horace:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Horace by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Horace:
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~25.00%
Genette Kelly
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A367817 [compare], Ancestry member McGroartyG
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