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- "Kelsey was born on September 26, 1910 in Crowleyville, Indiana. He married Ellen Marie Young on November 11, 1946 in Clay County, Arkansas. Ellen Young was born Octobere 25, 1924 close to Parma, in Stoddard County, Missouri. Her parents were Loren and Alice Mary (Thompson) Young. Like many folks in the early 1900s, Kelsey was poor when he was a child. He almost died of Typhoid Fever when he was two years old. Kelsey went to school in a one-room cabin in Crowleyville for a few years before the family moved to southeast Missouri. He and his mother and brother and sister picked cotton for a living. He travelled all over the United States (by way of hitchhiking and hopping freight cars) before he settled down in the Apostolic Church and married. Kelsey was rejected for military service in World War II because of the Typhoid Fever and chronic malarial fever. Kelsey came to Los Angeles, California looking for work, and his mother, Effie (Shar) Crackel soon folollowed. He met his wife, Ellen Young, through an ad he placed in Missouri. They married in the midwest, but came back to California to make their home. Kelsey purchaed a small church in San Gabriel, CA and pastored it for several years. ThThe family moved to Compton in the early 1950s where Kelsey pastored another church before selling out, and retiring from the pawstorship. He continued to hold family prayer in his home for his children. Kelsey was very interested in the Crackel family roots, and researched the family history for years. After his children were grown, he continued to work, and he and his wife travelled on long vacations. They saw Europe twice, went to Canada several times, and Kelsey even took in Alaska shortly before his death in 1981. On most ofhis trips, Kelsey managed to get in a little family research. Kelsey died on October 23, 1981.
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1910 - 1981 (71 years)
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