Gertrude Eleanor Kelly

1880 - 1961  (81 years)

• Name	Gertrude Eleanor Kelly
  Birth	Sep 1880	Linden Township, Iowa County, Wisconsin
  Gender	Female
  Death	25 Dec 1961	Wisconsin, USA
  Burial	Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States of America
  Person ID	I8972	Branches and Roots
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Kelly,   b. 31 Mar 1828, Lonan, Garff, Isle of Man d. 18 Nov 1896, Linden, Iowa, Wisconsin, USA (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Louisa Jewell,   b. 10 Dec 1836, Boscastle, Cornwall, England d. 4 Sep 1916, Linden, Iowa, Wisconsin, USA (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	18 May 1859	Linden, Iowa, Wisconsin, USA
  Family ID	F3264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ernest Baxter,   b. 11 Nov 1878, Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States of America d. 14 Dec 1948, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F3274	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  GERTRUDE KELLY BAXTER and her husband farmed on two different farms not more than a mile apart and about 5 miles southeast of Mineral Point, Wisconsin in Iowa County near the Lafayette County line. The first time they lived in Mineral Point was on the north side of Fountain Street next door to the Reese's Great Grandfather Julian's home. (My sister Gertrude Kelly was born in that house.) At the time the Baxters lived there Uncle Ernest and my father Will Kelly went into a partnership, purchasing a grocery store on High Street. Later Uncle Ernest bought my father out and ran the store himself. They moved back on the farm and stayed there until retirement when they moved to a house not far from the Congregational church on Maiden Street in Mineral Point. Aunt Gertrude was a favorite of many of her nieces and nephews and her brothers and sister too I think. I know that my father was very fond of her. She had a very firm faith and was active in the temperance movement. Her husband died while they were in California for the winter of 1948. Aunt Gertrude was instrumental in keeping the Kelly family together by having many family gatherings at their farm. aunt Gertrude was coming home from a Christmas dinner with her niece Mona Thomas when they were both killed in a car accident. By Richard A. Kelly using information from Mae (?) Reese GERTRUDE KELLY BAXTER and her husband farmed on two different farms not more than a mile apart and about 5 miles southeast of Mineral Point, Wisconsin in Iowa County near the Lafayette County line. The first time they lived in Mineral Point was on the north side of Fountain Street next door to the Reese's Great Grandfather Julian's home. (My sister Gertrude Kelly was born in that house.) At the time the Baxters lived there Uncle Ernest and my father Will Kelly went into a partnership, purchasing a grocery store on High Street. Later Uncle Ernest bought my father out and ran the store himself. They moved back on the farm and stayed there until retirement when they moved to a house not far from the Congregational church on Maiden Street in Mineral Point. Aunt Gertrude was a favorite of many of her nieces and nephews and her brothers and sister too I think. I know that my father was very fond of her. She had a very firm faith and was active in the temperance movement. Her husband died while they were in California for the winter of 1948. Aunt Gertrude was instrumental in keeping the Kelly family together by having many family gatherings at their farm. aunt Gertrude was coming home from a Christmas dinner with her niece Mona Thomas when they were both killed in a car accident. By Richard A. Kelly using information from Mae (?) Reese