• Son of Sarah Ann Kelley. He was a son from Sarah's first marriage to Almon Bathrick. He then seems to have taken on the surname of a step-father, Nicholas Kelley.  Parley and his mother appear in the 1850 census of El Dorado County, California.  He is listed as Raymond Purley Kelly.  According to the Nauvoo Community Project he died at Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 9

Sources

• 1842 Nauvoo Stake ward census.
• 1850 California Census, Eldorado County.
• Names of Pueblo soldiers and Mississippi brethren, 1847.
• Nauvoo Community Project
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 233-34.