Kellison - Charles C.
Exact obituary in the Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 16 July 1897 p 6
C. C. Kellison dropped dead Sunday morning at 6 o’clock at his home, six miles northeast of Crawfordsville, after ten days’ work in the hay harvest in the extreme heat of the season.
Charles C. Kellison was born in Coal Creek Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, Dec. 8, 1866. Graduating in early life in the common schools he entered the Central Normal College at Danville, Ind. When thoroughly qualified he taught his first school near Elmdale amid the scenes of his boyhood, and with marked success. In 1890 he went to Denver, Col., and the following year was married to Miss Maggie Bandhaur, of that city. They moved to Montana, where Mr. Kellison secured a position in the public schools in the city of Great Falls. Here he was so eminently successful as an educator that the nomination for county superintendent of schools was conferred upon him over seven able candidates. His universal popularity carried him one hundred votes ahead of his ticket and but little short of election. He saved his western wages and had bought him a 35 acres farm near his father, Samuel Kellison’s, place. Returning from Montana to his native county last September, he and his family settled down in their new home, where his promising life so suddenly closed.
The deceased leaves a widow and two children, Hazel, aged three years, and Nora, six months old. Hazel was ever by her papa’s side, and was the only person in the yard when he died. The little tot cried the alarm, “Come to, papa; he won’t talk to me!”
The whole model of life of Christ is crowded into the statement, “He went about doing good.” In this the deceased was a steadfast follower and if every person for whom Charles C. Kellison has done a kind act, a good deed, or lent a helping hand could come and drop a single bud upon his grave he would sleep beneath a great avalanche of flowers. He was broad and charitable minded, at home in, and willing to aid any church, but a member of none.
The deceased was a devoted, loving husband, a kind and affectionate father, a dutiful, noble son, a good cheerful brother, an honest, enterprising and respected citizen.
The funeral procession was one of the largest that ever came to Young’s Chapel. Interment took place at Mount Pleasant Cemetery at 5 o’clock p.m., Monday, July 12.