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- A family tree, recorded on the back of a 1950 election ballot by William
Haynes Kelley, showed his date of death as "Nov 18, 1911". It also
indicated that he was a physician.
- Dr. Kelley was educated in the schools of his vicinity, usually about 3 months in the year and then taught school three terms, common schools, during the war and being an excellent scribe, after that, taught writing school. After the war he read medicine with H.D. Thompson, MD of Simpson county and then attended course of medical lectures in 1869 and 1870 at University of Louisville, KY. Dr. W.O. Roberts and Dr. H.A. Cottell were classmates. Then practiced and read medicine under Dr. F.H. Kelley of Orange County, IN. In 1871 he came to Allen Co., KY and practiced till January, 1873. He practiced at Fountain Head, TN until October of 1873. He again attended University of Louisville and graduated March of 1874.He went to New Roe, KY (Allen Co, KY) and practiced till 1884 and then went to Scottsville, KY and practiced with much success. Source-Brown Manuscripts in Simpson County, KY Archives.
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