Third Generation32. Thomas D O'Kelly was born on 26 April 1797 in Mecklenburg Co, VA.11 He was convicted for the manslaughter of his wife in 1856 in Georgia USA. Newspaper report: The Athens Watchman notices the trial in that place of one Thomas O. Kelly, for the horrible treatment of his wife for the space of several years' time, and which finally produced her death "in tin* Winter of 1856. His trial for.the brutal affair has just been brought on. The woman has been partially deranged, and her husband bus confined her in a pen for some ten years. In this pen, or more more properly den, there has been no fire, no bed or bedding, and the poor creature was nearly or quite nude. For several years, at least, she has been thus kept, and nearly at the point of starvation. On a very cold morning in the Winter of 1856, she was found stiff, on lier hands and knees, at the door of the hole. She is said to have been a sensible and respectably educated woman. The details of the case are sickening. The brute of a husband was indicted for murder, but most unfortunately he was not convicted, the verdict of the jury being manslaughter, and a sentence of only three years in the Penitentiary was the result.
Thomas D O'Kelly and Elizabeth S SANDRIDGE were married on 8 December 1829 in ELBERT CO GA.. They appeared in the census in 1840 in Oglethorpe Co, GA.36 Slave owner Elizabeth S Sandridge was born in 1803 in ELBERT CO GA. She was murdered by her husband on 24 January 1856 in WALTON CO GA.11 Thomas D O'Kelly and Elizabeth S Sandridge had the following children:
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