Henry Bethuel Kelsey (1805 - 1879)

Born 1 Aug 1805 in Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Rowena (Sweet) Kelsey — married 7 Nov 1838 in Avon Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1879 at age 73 in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Henry, second son and sixth child of Asahel and Anna (Johnson) Kelsey, was born 1805 in Berlin, Conn.^[1]

In 1838 in Avon, Ohio, he married Rowena Sweet, daughter of Wanton and Olive (Carr) Sweet. They had seven children, all born in Lorain County, Ohio:^[2]

1. Edward Everett (b-1840)
2. Cornelia (b-1842, d-1843)
3. Theodore Freylinghuysen (b-1844, d-1844)
4. Edward Douglas (b-1846, d-1847)
5. Mary Anzoletta (b-1848. d-1853)
6. Henry Evelyn (b-1851)
7. Anna Rowena (b-1854, d-1856)

Sources

1. ↑ Claypool: Vol. 3, Page 189, family 2305.
2. ↑ Claypool: Vol. 3, Page 189, family 2305.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQ2-3N2 : 21 December 2020), Henry B Kelsey, Carlisle, Lorain, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2QH8-G3L : 29 September 2021), Henry B Kelsey and Rowena Sweet, 1838.
• "Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6ZJ-T6R : 19 January 2020), Henry B. Kelsey, 1879.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #12683723
• The Carr Family Records by Edison Irving Carr published in 1894, pages 211-212
• Claypool, Edward A. and Clizbee, Azalea. A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1928 -) [1]