Isabella Kelso

Brief Life History of Isabella

When Isabella Kelso was born in 1755, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Kelsey, was 35 and her mother, Susannah Mills, was 34. She married William Wylie in 1780, in Chester, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1826, in Perry, Alabama, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Selma, Dallas, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Wylie
1758–1830
Isabella Kelso
1755–1826
Marriage: 1780
Susan B. Wylie
1782–1866
Peter Wylie
1785–1857
Annie Wylie
1788–
Sarah Wylie
1790–1852
Jennette Wylie
1790–1860
Samuel Kelso Wylie
1793–1873
Mary Wylie
1795–1853
John Nixon Wylie
1801–1868

Sources (2)

  • Isabella Kelso Wylie, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Isabel in entry for William Wylie and Catharine Gilmore, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"

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World Events (6)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from Kelso on the river Tweed in Roxburghshire, so named from Old English calc ‘chalk’ + hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Story Highlight

Samuel Kelso (Kelsey) and Susannah Mills

This history was typed from a book compiled and published by Laura Everton Wagstaff in 1985. Samuel Kelso (Kelsey) Sr. (ca 1720-1796) and his wife, Susannah Mills (ca 1721-1804), our immigrant ances …

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