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Kelsey and Hawkins Info from Garrett's Necrology
Thanks to Jack Mainprize for copying these for me!!
Garrett's Necrology is a database housed in the Atlanta History Center. Franklin Garrett made a survey of cemeteries within a thirty-mile radius of downtown Atlanta. This database is a source of information on burials in Atlanta and surrounding communities, including Bible extracts, cemetery registers, and obituary extracts.
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Inconsistancies: (Click here for resolution to the death/burial inconsistancy)
The Atlanta Historical Bulletin Spring 1971 references Garrett's Necrology and says:
Several pioneer and useful citizens of the Atlanta area died during 1867. . . . Joel Kelsey, Sr., age 73, native of New Milford, Connecticut, and one of the original settlers of Atlanta, died October 22nd while visiting a daughter in Jefferson, Texas. He was the first bookkeeper for the Georgia Railroad in Atlanta and was also one of the three original ruling elders of the First Presbyterian Church in 1848.
Joel Kelsey, Sr., father, Noah Kelsey, died in 1843 and mother Margaret Grinnell died in 1858 so he wouldn't have gone to Connecticut to visit them. One daughter, Jennie (who married William T. C. Campbell) was living in Jefferson, Marion County, Texas in 1870. I tend to believe he died in Texas and not Connecticut.
Another discripancy is the marriage to Ann Treat. 1870 Marion County Texas census has Diana Kelsey age 72 born in Connecticut living with said William and Jennie Campbell. We know from marriage records that Joel Kelsey married Diana Miles 16 Sep 1818 in Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. I do not see the surname Treat in any of her ancestors - that might lead to a theory that her name was Julia Ann Treat Miles, and I don't believe that Joel and Julia were divorced due to their strong religious ties and church records that both were active. Hence I have no explaination of the name Ann Treat and will tend to ignore it like the statement he died in Connecticut.
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