© Kathy Duncan, 2023
Remember that materials are constantly being added to databases, especially newspaper databases. Periodically, repeat a search that has been done before. For the best results, vary keywords and spellings. Never, never assume that you've already found everything a database has to offer.
I've long been aware of this obituary for my great-great grandfather, Mansel Pinkney Kelley. A copy of it was in his widow's Civil War pension file. Although he had lived in Oklahoma for a few years prior to his death, his obituary was published in Camden, South Carolina, where he was raised and lived well into adulthood. In fact, he enlisted in the army from Kershaw County, South Carolina during the Civil War.
Repeated searches for a similar obituary in Oklahoma newspapers have garnered zero results. However, my search this week, using the Gateway to Oklahoma database, yielded a social notice, that indicated Pink Kelley had been seriously ill for months before his death on 19 June 1912 in Tupelo, Oklahoma. Son, Richard Singleton Kelley, had traveled from the Mt. Pleasant, Texas, area to visit his father. Although M. P. Kelley was able to sit up, he obviously did not fully recover. He was 68 years old at the time of his death.
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