Michael Kellar was born in about 1760. He married Catherine Monroe, daughter of Thomas Monroe and Catharine Hore, in Stafford County, Virginia. They had nine children. Michael died in 1816 in Fairfax, County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.

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