The 2011 Edward and Bitty Kelly Descendant Reunion was a great success! We want to thank all of you for your continued interest and attendance at the reunions and on the website (photos coming soon!). Thank you Otis Kelly for organizing and setting up the 2011 Reunion. We wanted to recognize a few folks for their hard work and efforts for this reunion:

Janice Busic for her wonderful and informative presentations

Toni McCreash for her excellent presentation on Joseph Kelly and 9 generations of descendants.

Paul Moorehouse for assisting with reunion logistics and for his continued hard and tedious work on documenting a detailed Kelly lineage. 

Mr. William H Sutherland for bringing his book collections and knowledge of his father's study of families in the Pioneer Recollections.

Kelly Whitt for attending with his family and bringing a wealth of information and photographs.

A special thanks to Harold Richardson  (hrichardson@rbchome.net) of the Southwest Virginia Genealogy Club for his informative talk.

We cannot thank all of you enough for your generous and continued support of the reunions, Kelly Cemetery maintenance, and headstone projects. We want to continue to grow as a "family" and reach as many descendants as possible. We appreciatively rely on each one of you to spread the word and pass along information and links. 

Please start planning for next year! We are excited to announce the next reunion on June 16th, 2012 in Lebanon, VA. We would love to see each one of you again and meet some new faces. 

On a side note, if you have not already, please send your family lineage back to Edward and Bitty Kelly to Paul Moorehouse. Our cousin Paul Morehouse has received permission from the heirs of Ethel Evans Albert to produce a revised and up-dated version of "South West Virginia Kin" which she published in a limited edition in 1976. Paul plans to split the earlier volume up and concentrate first upon the descendants of Edward and Biddy Kelly. To make this new volume as complete and accurate as possible, Paul is asking for your help. Once you find your link to Edward and Biddy, check the data on this site and verify its accuracy and THEN provide Paul with your family data down to the latest generation.You may send your data to him at epm1812@neo.rr.com  or by snail mail to E. Paul Morehouse, P. O. Box 1812, Akron, OH 44309-1812. 

Thank you so much.