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The Kelly Axe Manufacturing Company was established by William C. Kelly (b 1850) in Louisville, KY around 1870. In the 1880s the axe factory was moved to Alexandria, IN & then in 1904 to Charleston, WV. Kelly Axe was the largest edge tool company in the world and produced a wide variety of tools. In 1930 the Kelly Axe & Tool Works was purchased by the American Fork & Hoe Company which today is known as True Temper Corporation. William C. Kelly was the son of William Kelly (1811-1888) and Mildred A. Gracey (1830-1921). The father was born in Pittsburgh, PA & in 1845 moved to Eddyville, KY where he established an ironworks. He was the inventor of the Bessemer steelmaking process, and after Henry Bessemer's patent expired in 1870 all royalties reverted to William Kelly. Apparently this money was used to start the axe company. The Gracey family lived in Eddyville & in 1846 William married Mildred Gracey. They had at least 3 children - John G. Kelly (b 1847); William C.; & Lillie (b 1852). At some point the Kellys moved from Eddyville to Louisville & around 1890, William C. Kelly married Rosa ______. To the best of my knowledge they had one son named either Gerald or Jarrod born 1892. So if Rebecca Colwell Kelly Parsons was born in 1833, she probably was not connected directly with the Kely Axe family, unless she was related to a relative of the original William Kelly who was born in Pittsburgh.
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