Kelley - Thomas S.
Source: Crawfordsville Star, Oct 12, 1882 p 1
Mr. T.S. Kelley, the veteran shoe dealer, has wht is commonly called a "looking glass," that has pssed into his hands from the custody of several successive generations. The mirror was madein the year 1705, by James Kemp & Son, Glass Grinders of London, England. The back of it has a card glued on it giving the above information.
The glass was brought from England by the grandfather of Mr. Kelley's mother, Joseph Scattergood, in the year 1825. He landed at Philadelphia, and went up the Delaware River about 25 miles and settled in Burlington County, New Jerse. He lived there and raised a large family.
His son Benjamin, the father of Mr. Kelley's mother, came in possession of the glass, all the older ones of the family being dead. Benjamin still lived in Burlington County, NJ. Mr. Kelley's mother was born in the same county in 1772. In the year 1792 she was married to Abel Kelly, and togther they moved to Bucks County, PA. then the old glass mirror fell to her. She lived in Bucks County until 1815, when they pulled up for the west in a two-horse wagon, clinging to the old glass with an almost reverential love.
First they stopped in Warren County, Ohio. In 1828 they moved on further west and located in Clinton County, Indiana, the old glass still in their possession. In relating these incients to the writer, Mr. Kelley mentioned a circumstance that is not the blessed privilege of every man to enjoy,.
"On September 20th, just passed in this year of 1882," said Mr. Kelley, "I went up to a wedding in Frankfort, Clinton County, the marriage of the great grandchildren of my mother, and found the venerable mirror in the same room where it has been hanging for 54 long and busy years, and took it down off the nail and gave it the first railroad ride it has ever had. I brought it safely to Crawfordsville and hung it up in my bedroom, where I expect it will hang so long as I live." - typed by kbz