John W. Kellough
John W. Kellough, farmer, was born in Indiana, July 5, 1839, and is the only son of John W. sen., and Rebecca (Pummel) Kellough of that state. The Kellough ancestry were from Scotland. Mr. Kellough came to this state, with his parents, at six weeks of age. He has but one sister, Mary Jane, wife of Samuel P. McLean, a resident of Madison County.
Our subject obtained a good education in his youth, and for several years taught school in Ross and Pike counties. He was married, June 5, 1862, to Senith V., daughter of Henry and Mary (Vinsonhaler) Poole, of Ross County.
George Vinsonhaler, the grandfather, of Mrs Kellough, was a native of Virginia, but was among the early pioneers of Ross County, and it is said he assisted in laying out Chillicothe. Mrs. Kellough is of a family of seven children: Martha, Henry, Eleanor, (deceased,) Mary, Senith V., Emma C. and Christina. Mr. and Mrs. Kellough have had born to them ten children : Mary, born June 28, 1863; Charles Creighton, born January 4, 1865; Anna, born September 11, 1866; Nellie Dun, born February 20, 1868; Sallie Candis, born January 23, 1869 ; John William, born March 17, 1870; Claude H., born January 27, 1872, died November 28,1878; Jesse Paul Ross, born April 17, 1874; Christine Kate, born September 20, 1877; Guy Robert, born March 2, 1881.
Mr. Kellough owns and occupies a farm of two hundred and four acres, lying partly in Madison and partly in this county. He resides on that part lying in Madison County, but in his business and other relations, he is indentified with the people of this county. He is a man of intelligence, and his children have a taste for books and study.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County