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Robert Kelton was born about 1724 in Chester County, though it is uncertain who his father was. In about 1745, Robert married Elizabeth McCandlis, who was also born in Chester County in about 1726. The Keltons attended the New London Presbyterian Church, which had been established in 1726. Robert and Elizabeth had seven children born in Chester County -- Margaret, Nancy, James, William, Robert, John and David. In 1766, the Robert and Elizabeth Kelton family, the McCandlis family and at least one other family, the Ramsays, moved south to the Piedmont of North Carolina, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to what would become the Morgan District of Burke County.[1] William Kelton of Rutherford Co., Tenn.In 1773, Robert's son, William, married Elizabeth Ramsay, whose family had come from Pennsylvania when the Keltons came. Later William moved his family across the mountains to Tennessee and in 1801 settled at Black Fox Camp, a former Indian stopover, in what became Rutherford County, Tennessee. William and Elizabeth had nine children -- Mary (Polly), Robert, Agnes (Nancy), William, Margaret (Peggy), David, Elizabeth, James and Samuel B. The descendants of William were a large family, some of whom moved on to Arkansas, Texas and Arizona.The first history of William's family was written by his great grandson, Richard Lee Kelton of Van Buren, Arkansas, which appeared in the 1922 book, Notable Southern Families.[2] An expanded account of the parents of William Kelton and his descendants appeared in the 1975 book, My People -- The Keltons written by one of William's descendants in Arizona, Lorene Kelton Petersen. Dr. Leslie Kelton of Corsicana, TexasOne of William's grandsons, James Peay Kelton, came to Texas before 1870. He and his wife Nettie Carnes had eight children born in Corsicana between 1870 and 1884. The eldest of these was Leslie Eugene Kelton, who became a doctor; his son, Leslie Eugene Jr., was also a doctor in Corsicana before his death in 1982.[3]Robert Kelton, son of Robert Kelton, of Hall Co., Ga.Robert Kelton, William's brother and the fifth child of Robert, married Elizabeth Wasson in Rowan County, North Carolina, on April 17, 1787.[4] Soon after the turn of the century, Robert had settled on a good river bottom farm on the Chattahooche River about three miles northwest of Gainesville, Georgia. Robert and Elizabeth had four sons -- John, William, Edison and Robert -- and four daughters -- Emaline, Caroline, Nancy and Mandy.David Kelton of Pendleton District, S.C.The youngest son of Robert Kelton of Chester County, Pennsylvania, was named David. Though the link is not certain, a David Kelton appears in the census of 1790 and 1800 for the Pendleton District of South Carolina.[5] The David in the 1800 census was listed as being 45 years old; David of Pennsylvania was born about 1759, which would have made him about 41 years. This age difference is small, but still a discrepancy. In the 1800 census, the household of David of South Carolina contained two males between the age of 10 and 15.[6] The Robert Kelton born in 1786 (who married Catherine Houston) would have been 14 in September 1800, so that he would have been the right age to have been the son of David Kelton. One reference shows a Thomas Lofton selling 102 acres to David Kelton in the late 1700s (between 1788 and 1791). In 1804 and 1806, Robert Kelton appears as a witness to land sales in the district.
Sources:[1] Lorene Kelton Petersen, My People -- The Kelton (Pinedale, Ariz.: Petersen Printers, 1975), p. 2.[2] Zella Armstrong, compiler, Notable Southern Families (Chattanooga, Tenn.: Lookout Publishing Co., 1922), Volume II, pp. 215-230. [3] My People -- The Kelton, 1975), p. 2ff. [4] Brent H. Holcomb, comp., Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1868 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986), p. 218. [5] The name was spelled "Kilton" in the 1790 census and "Celton" in the 1800 census, though phonetic spellings were not uncommon in early census taking. [6] The Census of 1800 shows that the David "Celton" household included one male age 45+, two males ages 10-15, two males under age 10, one female age 26-44, one female age 10-15 and two females under age 10.
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