Hi Robert
 
I could spend all my time just working on family history,
  but--.
 
I spent last evening looking at the photos you have on the
 web and most of the older ones I can relate to as having
 been there or being with the people in the photo.  
It sure brought back memories that I had not thought about 
for some time.  As I said I never met John and Jane but
 my mother told me many thing about them and now wish I
 had asked and heard more.  I Never met Robert McKelvey
 but I  met Sarah and was at their home several times. 
 I met and knew Earl (never called Hambi that I ever heard 
any of the family call him, always Earl.)  Knew his wife 
Elizabeth. I think I met Celia Once, but mother talked
 about her.  Pearl (never called Cambi) and loved her. 
 She was so full of full and lived by herself in very 
crude surroundings. Knew her boys.  Never Met Newt (Newton)
 as he sort of separated or moved away from the family 
in Killbuck.  Mother spoke of him often.  Knew Ellsworth
 and Lola McKelvey and their family.  When my brother
 and Charley and Ellsworth got to gather in a group it
 was a hilarious time-such joking, etc.   Knew Charles
 and Susan and their family.  Also Bessie and Glen and 
stayed with them several times and of course all of
 there Kids.  In fact Stanley Orr and his sister 
Wanda Orr Chase came to my reception for my art exhibit
 a week ago.  I knew this generation of the family because
 they were more my age.  Mother - Lillie - was the youngest
 of the 7 children of John and Jane and I was born when
 My Mother was 47 yrs old.  So they all associate me with
 the younger generations and not as a grandchild of 
John and Jane.  Mom was born in the Old log cabin they
 lived in before the big present white house was built. 
 They moved into the big house when mother was 7 yrs. old. 
 She told of Robert having a night mare and kicking up 
in the air and hitting his toe on the roof of the cabin 
and breaking his toe.
 
I did not know William McKelvey, Did not know David but
 knew his wife Lena (Elena) and their family  and lived 
by them at one time. in Harden Co. -- east of Ada, Oh.  
Knew Mary McKelvey and visited her in Colorado Springs 
with her second husband - Sam.  Knew her 2 children.  
She Married Simmon Sondles and went to Kansas and Mom 
told how their mother (Jane) helped Mary get ready to 
move and cut strips of potato with the eyes in them and 
dried them, for Mary to take with her to Kansas for her 
to plant.  Mary said that those potatoes help to pull 
them thru the first years as it was so dry that they 
provided most of their food for them.  
 
Annie McKelvey I never met, but Mom talked about her 
so much.  Uncle Zander  (Alexander) and Sarah I knew
 and was to their home.  Mom was unhappy with him over 
the will of John McKelvey.
My brother Willis and sister Leora were born in Holmes Co. 
 My Father, Sherman and Lilly moved to harden Co when 
My brother was 13 yrs and Leora was 18 month  old.  Dad
 and Willis drove the team and wagon thru and it took 
them 2 days from Killbuch to Hardin Co.
 Mom told about Johnnie Appleseed staying at their home
 when she was a girl. Stayed over night and planted 
apple seeds.  Then wandered on.  She said he was very queer.

No I have not written any thing and must make that a
 priority thing as it is getting late.  
Think about that often.  Oh, Yes I have Jane McKelvey's
 small bible with a chunk of hair in it but do not know
 who it belongs to.  I also have the two twin bed that
 belonged to John and Jand.  The one bed is where he died. 
  Enough this time.  Can tell some about Jane Logan 
and her brothers coming over but will do that next time
 after I look up her brothers names etc. Always wished 
I had met John and Jane.  Oh yes, another time I must 
tell about John MeKelvey's  trips to town and letting
 his horse find the way home with John singing at the 
top of his lungs. He was unable to drive he was so happy.
 You know the Irish and the pubs. 
 
Be in touch.       Annabelle