When Ruel Woolley Kelsey was born on 28 October 1917, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, his father, Newel Kelsey, was 25 and his mother, Esdale Woolley, was 20. He married Kathryn Mary Jorgensen on 28 October 1938, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Samoa in 1935 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1939. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 20 November 1987, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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