NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: KELLAR, John Francis (d. 1925)
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KELLAR, JOHN FRANCIS
                Born August 10, 1842 in Noble County, Ohio
                Died April 25, 1925 in Hot Springs, South Dakota at the
 Veterans Home
 
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    John Francis KELLAR, son of Harrison and Catherine KELLAR was born
 August 10, 1842 in Noble County, Ohio.  He was raised to manhood in Ohio
 and enlisted in the Seventh Company, Independent Ohio Cavalry in 1863 and
 served during the remainder of the War of the Rebellion.  His company was
 detailed for some time as a body guard for the President, Abraham
 LINCOLN.
 Mr. KELLAR was on duty in Washington on the night of the assassination. 
 He personally carried the message from the Adjutant General to the Army
 which was encamped at Alexandria.  Among his prized possessions was a
 photograph of LINCOLN given to him with other members of his company by 
 the martyred president.
    Following the War Mr. KELLAR  moved with his family to Prole, Iowa, a
 short distance south of Des Moines and forty-two years ago moved to
 Nebraska, spending sixteen years on a farm near Steele City, five years
 as a resident of Lincoln and the last twenty-one years of his life on a
 ranch near Crookston. (Nebraska)
    He is survived by his wife, Matilda J.(SAYRE) KELLAR; three daughters,
 Mrs. Carrie BACKON, Ardmore, Oklahoma; Mrs. W.G.(Jessie) SMITH, Rock
 Rapids, Iowa; Miss Venia M. KELLAR, Director of Domestic Science at the
 University of Maryland; and one son, E.M.(Enoch Monroe) KELLAR of
 Crookston, Nebraska.  Three brothers, Thomas, Henderson and William
 KELLAR, Prole, Iowa; a sister, Mrs. Jennie DAVIS of Des Moines, and eight
 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive him.
 
  Note from S.K. Ratcliffe:  John Francis KELLAR'S  first wife was Louis P.
  KRAPS, daughter of John W. KRAPS and Martha E. MCNABB of Dexter City. She
  was born July 10, 1849, and died November 21, 1873, in Warren County,
  Iowa.
  She is buried in the Linn Grove Cemetery there with many others from
  Noble County including the parents of John Francis, Harrison and Catherine
 (MILLER) KELLAR.