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WILLIAM KELLUM, farmer, P. O. Feesburg. Thomas Kellum, the father of our subject, was born December 25, 1792, on the eastern shore of Maryland, and was the youngest of a family of seven children. He was left motherless in infancy, and without the advice of a father at an early age. He remained in his native State until in his teens, when he came to Ohio with one of his elder brothers and family. He soon had sufficient means to purchase 155 acres of land near where Eden Church now stands. On July 5, 1813, he was joined in marriage to Elizabeth, a daughter of Jacob P. Shinkle, who came to Ohio about 1803 or 1804. Elizabeth was born in Pennsylvania, January 25, 1787. Thomas and Elizabeth settled on his farm, where they began to clear away the dense forest. He and wife would reap side by side in the harvest field; they would raise, pull, break, skutch, hackle, spin and weave their linen, and make their own clothes. He was, politically, a Democrat. He and wife were members of the M. E. Church, in which faith they both died, she January 2, 1873, and he, September 18 of the same year, after having lived about three years with their son William. Their children were Catharine, Mary, William, Barbara, John, Nancy, Juliann, Peter, Jemimah, Henry and Elizabeth. Of these Juliann, Jemimah and Elizabeth are deceased, but all lived to maturity and became heads of families. William is the third eldest, and was born July 14, 1818, in Lewis Township, Brown County, and is one among the early births of the county. He was raised amid pioneer difficulties and log huts. He devoted his time at home until March 9, 1837, when he married Mary A., daughter of Stephen Bolender, Sr. She was born September 12, 1820, in Lewis Township, Brown County, and is the youngest daughter of her father’s family. Soon after William and Mary A. were married, they settled in Taylor’s Survey, No. 1651, since which they have made several changes. In 1853, they moved from the old Bolender farm to their present residence, where they own 145 acres of land, and are well fixed. Seven of their eight children are still living, four married and three single. The youngest, whose name is William H., was accidentally struck in the eye by a bone which was thrown from the table, and which resulted in the loss of both eyes. He is now being educated at the Blind Asylum at Columbus, Ohio. William Kellum and family are all members of the church, either M. E. or Christian Union, and he politically adheres to the Democratic party.