John McIntosh Kell papers 1815-1891.

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John McIntosh Kell papers 1815-1891.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76065711

The John McIntosh Kell papers consist of a planter's journal for three plantations presumably owned or operated by the Munroe family near Macon, Ga.; an undated, unidentified slave list; a diary of Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, John's wife, which records the grief she felt at the death of her two children in September 1863; a letter written by Mrs. Kell to her father at their family home at Sylvan Lodge, October 1864; and a letter from Kell to W.E. Mitchell of New York City, April 30, 1891, 1 p. ALS. Kell declines request of him by Mitchell in behalf of the Young People's Association of Mitchell's church. The collection also includes two cased images: one of John McIntosh Kell taken in the late 1850s and one of Blanche and their son, Nathan Munroe Kell, taken c.1857, and one print of the Kells in front of their Sunnyside home. The collection is arranged chronologically.

4 folders, 2 cased images, 1 print (.25 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8149049

Georgia Historical Society

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Kell family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64262nc (family)

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69g5p12 (person)

John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), son of John and Margery Spalding Baillie Kell of Darien, Georgia, married Julia Blanche Munroe of Macon, Georgia. During the Civil War, Kell served as an officer in the Confederate Navy. After the war, he served as Georgia's Adjutant-General from 1886 until his death in 1900. From the description of Letter to Blanche Munroe Kell, 1859 Sept. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476234 From the description of John McIntosh Kell letters, 1861. (U...

Kell, Julia Blanche Munroe.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m05d25 (person)

Julia Blanche Munroe Kell (1836-1917), commonly referred to as Blanche, was born in Macon, Georgia in 1836 and was the daughter of Nathan C. and Tabitha Napier Munroe. In 1856, Blanche married John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900) with whom they had ten children together. John McIntosh Kell graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1841 and accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his expedition to Japan in 1852. Upon the onset of the Civil War, Kell resigned his United States Commission and ...