Kelly, Charles Thatcher-[2447]

  General Notes:

(MAYBE)CHARLES T. KELLY, postmaster of Terra Alta, has the broad capability of practical business knowledge and thorough training in business affairs. He is a native son of Preston County, and is undoubtedly one of the county's best known citizens. He was born at Valley Point July 25, 1873, son of Smith E. and Mary E. (Browning) Kelly, also natives of the same county. His maternal grandfather, James Browning, was grandfather of ex-sheriff J. D. Browning, elsewhere men- tioned in this publication. The paternal grandfather of the postmaster was Edward Kelly, who was born in the Pine Swamp settlement of Preston County and spent his life in the vicinity of Cranesville, where he was buried. He mar- ried Miss Falkenstein. Their children were: Ellis and John W., both of Terra Alta; Smith E.; Jane, wife of Bud Stockman and a resident of Terra Alta; and Margaret, wife of S. H. Shaw, of Terra Alta
December 10, 1901, he married Miss Nina Fry, a native of Terra Alta and daughter of Dr. Robert R. and Catherine (Sturgis) Fry. Her father was long prominent as a practicing member of the medical fraternity at Terra Alta, where he died in 1916, at the age of seventy-two. He is survived by his widow and his two children, Mrs. Kelly and Laverna, wife of G. M. Ridenour of Terra Alta. Mrs. Kelly completed her education in Washington City. Since her marriage she has been deeply interested in all the business and civic affairs in which her husband has taken part. She is head of the local missionary work of the Methodist Church, and both of them were loyal workers at the time of the war, assisting in the various drives, while Mrs. Kelly did much knitting and other work for the local Red Cross Chapter. She is a member of the Eastern Star
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Charles married Nina Frey-[2454] [MRIN:813] on an unknown date in Unknown. (Nina Frey-[2454] was born in 1872 in Preston Co., WV, died in 1945 in Preston Co., WV and was buried in 1945 in Terra Alta Cemetery, Terra Alta, Preston Co., WV.)