The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Marion Township, page 687
William Kelly was born in Greene County, Tenn., July 30, 1809. In October, 1831, he accompanied his two married sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Houston and Mrs. Margaret Lennung and their husbands, to Hendricks County, and bought 160 acres of Government land on section 17, Marion Township. In the fall of 1834, on account of failing health, he engaged in the mercantile business at New Winchester, but did not regain his health, and died Sept. 28, 1840. He was one of the most active and enterprising of the early settlers, and for some time served as Justice of the Peace. He was married March 13, 1832, to Malinda West, a native of Wayne County, Ky., who came with her parents, Alexander and Sarah WestT, to Hendricks County in October, 1831, locating on section 16, Marion Township, where her mother died in 1839. Her father died in Missouri in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly had a family of five children--Mrs. Sarah I. Tincher, Anthony W., Mrs. Margaret A. Hays, Mrs. Mary Hays (deceased), and William R. Mrs. Kelly was married June 23, 1853, to Stephen Stephenson, who died July 13, 1875. She is still living on the homestead, on section 16, Marion Township, and is one of the few remaining old settlers of 1831.