When Charles Blair Kelso was born in 1785, in Deercreek, Harford, Maryland, United States, his father, Alexander Kelso, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Ann Balch, was 33. He married Jane Jameson on 11 September 1803, in Dandridge, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lancaster, Lancaster Township, Jefferson, Indiana, United States in 1830. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 25 October 1846, in Morgan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Trafalgar, Hensley Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from Kelso on the river Tweed in Roxburghshire, so named from Old English calc ‘chalk’ + hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.
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