Loretta D. Drugan ^{1 2}

   Another name for Loretta was Loretto D. Drugan.³

  General Notes:

She was not listed with her parents for the 1860 US Census when she would have been about 6 or 7 years old. Was she living elsewhere or was she just skipped?
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  Death Notes:

Died during childbirth of daughter Loretta in 1893.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She has alternate birth date of 1854 and a birth location of Wisconsin.

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• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Elm Creek Township, Martin, MN on 4 June 1870. ²

1870 US Census
Page 4, Family 27
Elm Creek, Martin County, Minnesota
Loretta Dugan...17..IL

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Spring Valley, MN on 22 June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 21C, District 86, Family 133
Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minnesota
Loretto Kelley..Wife..24..WI..Milliner

(Living with husband and sister.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 15 Apr 1853, then her age should have been 26 instead of 24. Her birth location was believed to be Illinois instead of Wisconsin.
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• She was buried in June 1893 in the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Devils Lake, ND.

PLOT Block 02, Lot 01, Space 03, GAR Original
Find a Grave Memorial 122623655
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Loretta married Clark Welch Kelley, son of James W. Kelley and Isabel Jane Welch, on 27 March 1873 in , Martin County, MN.¹ (Clark Welch Kelley was born on 6 July 1853 in Theresa, NY,^{1 3} died on 1 November 1921 in Tampa, FL ³ and was buried on 4 November 1921 in Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Devil's Lake, ND ³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Spring Valley, MN on 22 June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 21C, District 86, Family 133
Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minnesota
Clark Kelley..Head..26..NY
Loretto Kelley..Wife..24..WI..Milliner
Agnes Drugan..Sister-in-Law..18..WI..In Millinery Shop
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