page_title: O'Kelly's Chapel
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: O'Kelly's Chapel / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Square Grand Piano in O'Kelly's Chapel
context_page_description: O'Kelly's Chapel is a historic chapel located near Farrington, Chatham County, North Carolina. Named after Reverend James O'Kelly and was built about 1900. It is a modest one-room rural chapel with Gothic Revival features including a steeply pitched roof and lancet windows.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
context_section_description: "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  Ray Manieri (July 1983). "O'Kelly's Chapel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  Document of the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ, "A History of O'Kelly Chapel." Andes, K. June 6, 2013.
  Durward T. Stokes and William T. Scott, A History of The Christian Church in the South, privately printed, 1973,  p. 26.
  W. E. MacClenny, The Life of Rev. James O’Kelly and The Early History of the Christian Church in the South, Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1910, p. 169;  Stokes & Scott, History of The Christian Church.., p. 46.
  Durward T. Stokes, “James O’Kelly,” in William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Vol. IV, pp. 391–392.
  MacClenny, The Life of Rev. James O’Kelly..., p. 18; Raymond Beck found deeds recording the 1797 and 1812 purchases in the Chatham County Courthouse, see Raymond Beck to George Troxler, 4/5/17; Beck to Troxler, 6/2/17 gives MacClenny, p. 18, as source of date for William's settlement in Chatham.
  MacClenny, The Life of Rev. James O’Kelly..., pp. 228 – 229.
  Chatham County Deed Books, Chatham County Register of Deeds, Chatham County Courthouse, Pittsboro, N.C. Deed Book BN, 393 quoted in Stokes and Scott, History of the Christian Church,  p. 46. Stokes and Scott identify this as the site of O’Kelly's Chapel. MacClenny, The Life of Rev. James O’Kelly..., p. 169-170, identifies the tract as “where Martha’s Chapel church now stands”. When Stokes and Scott were writing Martha's Chapel was not associated with the United Church of Christ, the successor of the O’Kelly's Southern Christian Church.
  The Christian Annual, passim; United Church of Christ Yearbooks.
caption: The 1875 Charles Stieff Piano, now named the "O'Kelly Piano"
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