WILLIAM SILAS CONOLY
SURNAMES: CONOLY, PRICE, KEESEE, BENNETT, CALVERT, LOGAN, MCKELVY, BARTLETT, FOSTER, BRADFORD.
William
Silas Conoly, b August 2,1847 in Tennessee, d January 1, 1903 and buried in
Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Texas - was a son of Archibald and Mary Sarah
Angeline (Price) Conoly. On October 26, 1870, he married Mary Jane Keesee b July
11, 18491 d June 15, 1930 - a daughter of William Calvert and Mary Elizabeth
(Bennett) Keesee, and her grandparents were Coionel Milton and Mary (Calvert)
Keesee, and Henry Littleton and Jane (Logan) Bennett. The Keesee and Bennett
families settled at Hog Island in Falls County, and they were of the
Presbyterian faith.
William
Silas Conoly clerked for his --Brother, James Larkin Conoly, and began a farming
and livestock operation on 640 acres of land that his wife had inherited from
her grandfather, Henry L. Bennett's estate, and he also supervised his brother's
farm.
In 1875,
William Silas Conoly was elected sheriff of Falls County - serving two and one -
half years. In 1881, he was elected County Commissioner, and in 1892, he was a
school trustee. He was a member of the Reagan Masonic Lodge, and he and Mary
Jane belonged to the Methodist faith. They had five children:
Ernest
L. Conoly, b 1871, d 1929 – married Annie McKelvy, b 1879, d 1920.
William
Harry Conoly, b July 24,1873, d March 3, 1942 and buried in Calvary Cemetery at
Marlin, Texas.
Mary
Conoly, b December 3, 1875, d December 6, 1953 - married Zenas Wilson Bartlett,
b January 31, 1867, d December 18, 1942.
Lucy L.
Conoly, b December 31, 1877, d 1955- married Albert Heard Foster, b 1876, d 1916
in Marlin, Texas.
Bessie
Conoly, b August 31, 1880 - married Bradford.
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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 90 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.