Kelly, Alexander.  1^st Sergeant, Company F, 6^th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment.  From Pittsburgh (Homewood), Alexander was born on April 5, 1840 in Saltsburg, Conemaugh Twp. in Indiana County, Pa.  He was a coal miner prior to joining the army on April 7, 1863, he moved to Homewood in 1863 .   Kelly received the Medal of Honor for service at Chaffin’s Farm.  It reads:  “Gallantly seized the colors, which had fallen near the enemy’s line of abatis, raised them and rallied the men at a time of confusion and in a place of the greatest danger.”  He mustered out on September 20, 1865, at Wilmington, North Carolina.  Moving back to Homewood, he married his wife Victoria, and they lived at 5632 Harvard Street.  He and his wife married on July 30, 1866. They had at least one child, a son, William A., born in January 1867.  In 1880 the family was living in the Brownsville area of Allegheny County.  Both Alexander and his son were working as coal miners.  Victoria died sometime after the 1880 census and prior to 1900.  In 1900, Alexander was noted as “widowed”, and working at day labor.  His son’s occupation was listed as “music teacher.”  A widowed sister, Mary J. born in 1827 lived in the household, and they also had a boarder-a seven year old boy named Oliver Jones.  Later in life, he worked as a night watchman in a Livery stable, dying on June 19, 1907.  He is buried in the Lemington Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Member of Colonel Robert G. Shaw GAR post # 206.  Conflicting published records show service dates of Aug. 24, 1864 to Sept. 20, 1865, list him as a substitute, residence Allegheny Co. Pa. burial at Allegheny County, St. Peters Cemetery, death of 6-19-1907.  Note:  varying sources show his death as 1867, but he is on the 1900 census as widowed.