Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-14
NORWICH TOWN

honorable discharge fro;a the govern ment service in New Haven and re- turned to his home on Elm avenue.
 Mrs. Mary Adams of Pecks Corner was pleasantly remembered Wednes- day on her ninetieth birthday. Friends and neighbors called, there was a shower of postcards, and other gifts inclrf>hg a birthday cake. Mrs. Adams enjoys the visits of friends and keeps an active interest in affairs, though not able to go about as she used to.
 Mrs. Charles Marsh and daughter, Miss 'Thelma, returned Thursday ev- ening to their home on Town street, having spent nearly two weeks with relatives in Saco, Maine.
 Mrs. Charles P. Learned of West Town street has returned home aft CT yisI- of two weeks insHayerhill, Mass.
 Miss Edna Herbert of Town street is spending tle week end at her home in Griswold.
 Young ladies attending Connecti- cut. College who are spending the CMistmas vacation at their homes here, are Misses Ruth and Gertrude Avery, Susan Wilcox, Gladys Beebe, and Marion Rogers.
 Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Eulman en- tertained Thursday evening at their home on Town street Whist. music and dancing provided an enjoyable evening for all. Those who received prizes at the whist of which there | were six tables, were Miss Etta Walk CT and Thomas Bulman first the con- solation awards going to Miss Edna Herbert and George Kelly. Sandwich | es, cake, coffee and popcorn, were serv- l ed by the hostess assisted bv her sis ter, Miss Sarah Parker
 News was received this week by | Mrs. C. H. Lamb of Town street con | cerning the death of AndNew J. Kel- l ley. 83, at his home in Creighton, Ne braslla. MT. Kelley had been in fail | 'ng health for over a rear, and the end which came peacefully was not unexpected. His only wish was that le would live until the. conclusion of he world war
 Mir. Kelley went to Nebraska in August. 1871. settling two and one half niles north of Creighton where he | lonostea9 9ed a quarter section and se- eured eighty acres through a timber claim.
 | He secured his claims and returned
 o Connecticut for his family with whom he again reached Nebraska in October. They lived in q dugout on
 he homestead for about tiiree months | 'ntil a frama house coIl1 be brought rom Yankton s. D. fifty miles away NIr. Kelley had worked at the butcher srade in Connecticut and found work n that line in Nebraska when not
 'usy on his ranch.
 He was born in Willi'nartic, April
 1852. the son of Henry and Caroline Sly Kelley, natives of Connecticut
 where his father died at the age of seventy. His mother. native of Nor
 Tich, at one time having several rel 'tives here, went west and spent hei
 declining wars at the home of hel
 on Mir. Kelley was marrie1 in Con-
 'ncticut. March 2S, 1881, to Miss Eliz-
 be'1 H. Wtltams, who died in Ne nr' a. January 1, 1887. Foul children
 yore born to them, Of whom Carrie
 Y. Kelley survives. He alac leaves 2 lister, Mrs. Mary Black of Brookline Mass. six grandchildren and ter ~reat grandchildren. Mrs. Mary
 rocks has been a member Of the fam
 " since childhood. He was a mem
 Ner of A. y. and A. NJ. of Creighton
 'lso of the Eastern Star, an Odd Eel
 ov. q Knight of Pythias and a com
 'H'o of the Grand Army of the Re public.
 In the Civil war he enlisted in Co
 N Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteel
 Infantry, Augpst2. 1862 and served fo
 'early thre years. He was in tn,
 'attle of Fishers Hill and Berryville
 nd was honorably discharged July '
 SS5. During his service hc was cap
 ured and endured the lcrrGrs of Lib " prison. Nr. Kelley suffered hi ] hare of hardships as he was out il
 he blizzard of March F. 1888 After be ns twenty five years on the farm. ir : December, 1S97, he moved .~ Creigh
 on. The funeral was held from hi
 nome, Rev. MT. Crickmer officiating with the Masonic order in charge 0 . he service
 7 Mr, Kelley had many friends in Nor ]: wich and vicinity Years ago ther : were several relatives here all o z which have passed away except tw cousins. Mrs. Chauncy 3. Woodwort F 0f Laurell Hill and Miss Josephin x Fhurston of Greeneville. The late Mrs |. Imilon Capron andw Savillion Gib 7 on were also cousins