Fourth Generation

146. Dr. Thomas Katlett O'Kelley was born on 20 October 1833 in Henderson Co, NC. He served in the Arkansas Union Cavalry as a Sergeant in 1864–1865 in MO. He appeared in the census in 1870 in German, Bollinger, Missouri.⁸⁰ Thomas served in the military Veteran Schedules in 1890.⁸¹ He received a Civil War Pension in 1890 in MO. He died in October 1923 in Patton, Bollinger Co, MO. He was a Physician having attended Washington University Medical School in St Louis Mo a education that cost him $250.00.  He was a large landowner and was in the Union Army in 1864,2nd Ark Cavalry.  Dr O'Kelley kept a family bible but it seems to have disappeared so no one alive today knows what records that bible contained.  It has been claimed that Dr O'Kelley created five pages that contain his ancestry and it begins with James O'Kelley and Anna Dean but all attempts to confirm this information has failed.  I no longer believe James O'Kelley and Anna Dean could be of our family.

Civil War Pension Records

Thomas Katlett Dr. O'Kelley and Margeret Ann Capehart were married on 14 July 1857.

Margeret Ann Capehart died July 27, 1903.

Thomas Katlett Dr. O'Kelley and Margeret Ann Capehart had the following children:

324	i.	Edward Capehart O'Kelley was born on 1 October 1857 in TN. He murdered Bob Ford on 8 June 1892 in Creede CO.82 He was buried in January 1904 in Fairlawn Cemetery Oklahoma City OK.83 Edward died killed by an officer while resisting arrest on 13 January 1904 in Oklahoma City, Ok.84  It appears Dr O'Kelley never claimed Ed as he does not appear in Dr O'Kelley Pension files.  As I understand the story told by great great granddaughter Judith Reis in her book about Ed O'Kelley, Dr O'Kelley learned after his marriage to Margret Ann Capehart that she was already pregnant so while Ed has the name O'Kelley he may not be genetically of the O'Kelley line.
+325	ii.	Dr. Harry Harrison O'Kelley.
+326	iii.	Zachariah Asbury O'Kelley.
+327	iv.	Frank Marion O'Kelley.
+328	v.	MATTIE May O'Kelley.