Lincoln D Kelsey

Extract from page 193 of:
The Descendants of Robert Isbell in America, by Mason, Edna Warren, 1882-
Published: 1944
Publisher: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. (New Haven, Conn.)


ELNORA LOUISE ISBELL (Robert, Eleazer, Robert, Eleazer, Elias, Elias Jr., Orland Watson, Elias Sidney), daughter of Elias Sidney and (3) wife, Ellen Jane (Phelps) Isbell, born Killingworth, Conn., April 9, 1868. Married there, by Rev. Nathan Tibbals of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 14, 1889, David Manning Stone Kelsey, born there, January 8, 1862, died Middletown, Conn., June 10, 1942, son of Charles D. and Olive A. (Stone) Kelsey.

Mr. Kelsey studied at The New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, Mass., and later was Supervisor of Music for ten years in the Public Schools of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He was a writer, lecturer, Pastor of the Hadlyme, Conn., Congregational Church, 1925 to 1931, and a member of the South Congregational Church at Middletown. In 1925 he published Kelsey's Rural Guide.

He was a descendant of William Kelsey who came to Hartford, Conn., 1634, and whose name is on the Founders' Monument there, also a member and Chaplain of the Kelsey Family Association.

Mrs. Kelsey has in her possession a quitclaim deed of the old red Isbell Homestead at Killingworth, signed by Asahel and Lucretia (Isbell) Harvey and Dennis and Mary (Isbell) Gillum, to Orland Watson Isbell in 1830, also from Timothy and Irena (Newel) (Isbell) Benton, and Eliza Irena Isbell, 1833. [Note: On page opposite 193 is a sketch by Elnora Isbell Kelsey. It shows a mill on the Killingworth, CT property.]

Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey observed their Golden Wedding Anniversary August 14, 1939.

Residence, January 1943, Ithaca, N. Y.

Children of David M. Stone and Elnora Louise (Isbell) Kelsey:

1. Christine, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., January 9, 1891.
2. Ronald, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 11, 1893, died there, May 21, 1893.
3. Lincoln David, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 22, 1894.
4. Jessamine, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 29, 1896.
5. Elias Isbell, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March 17, 1901.
6. Homer Stone, born West Hartford, Conn., October 20, 1908.

Extract from pages 245-246 of:
The Descendants of Robert Isbell in America, by Mason, Edna Warren, 1882-
Published: 1944
Publisher: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. (New Haven, Conn.)

"LINCOLN DAVID KELSEY (Robert, Eleazer, Robert, Eleazer, Elias, Elias Jr., Orland Watson, Elias Sidney, Elnora Louise), son of Rev. David M. Stone and Elnora Louise (Isbell) Kelsey, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 22, 1894. Married West Hartford, Conn., January 28, 1919, Alice Geer, born Danvers Center, Mass., September 21, 1896, daughter of Prof. Curtis M. and Mary (Gillette) Geer.
  Mrs. Kelsey graduated Mount Holyoke College, 1918. Mr. Kelsey received his discharge from the U. S. Army to take up Rehabilitation Work with the Near East Relief in Merzifoun, Turkey, until March 1920. He continued the education of four orphan boys, bringing them to the United States in 1926 for College. He graduated Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1917, and for ten years was a County Agricultural Agent.
  In 1928 appointed to the Staff of Cornell University, Extension Department, New York State College of Agriculture.

  Residence, April 1943, Ithaca, N. Y.

Children of Lincoln David and Alice (Geer) Kelsey:
1. Paul Manning, born Malone, N. Y., January 19, 1921. Married there, May 25, 1942, Jane Adeline Strahan, born Poughkeepsie, N. Y., September 8, 1921, daughter of James Lewis and Julia (Gleason) Strahan. Mrs. Kelsey attended Cornell University for two years, Class of 1943. Now, 1942, Mr. Kelsey is attending Cornell University, Class of 1943, and received a medal for the outstanding Junior in Artillery Training Course. This summer he will act as Forester in the Montana State Park.
   Residence, 1942, Ithaca, N. Y.
2. Edith May, born Malone, N. Y., June 18, 1923. Attending Cornell University, Class of 1944.
3. Olive Ann, born Delmar, N. Y., December 30, 1924.
4. Martha Storrs, born Ithaca, N. Y., January 12, 1931.

JESSAMINE KELSEY (Robert, Eleazer, Robert, Eleazer, Elias, Elias Jr.,
Orland Watson, Elias Sidney, Elnora Louise), daughter of Rev. David M. Stone and Elnora Louise (Isbell) Kelsey, born Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 29, 1896. Married Ithaca, N. Y., August 8, 1931, Laurence Brownell Johnson, born Barton, Tioga Co., N. Y., October 15, 1888, son of Herbert Laurence and Eloise May (Lane) Johnson.

Mrs. Johnson graduated Mt. Holyoke College, A.B., 1920, and graduate work at Buffalo Normal School and Cornell University.

    Residence, April 1943, Ithaca, N. Y.

Child of Laurence Brownell and Jessamine (Kelsey) Johnson:
1. Sylvia Ann, born Ithaca, N. Y., December 29, 1933."

Note:  In Ithaca City Directories and on gravestone, the first name of Jessamine's husband is spelled "Lawrence."