Kelion Franklin Peddicord never married.
The following appreciation of his character is by his sister, Mrs. India W. P. Logan:
In person my brother Kelion was about five feet eight inches in height, pale olive in complexion, with dark gray eyes and fine, very dark brown hair, and erect form, even when his hair had become white with age. Though always cheerful, his countenance was grave and he seldom laughed. He looked the soldier to the last time he walked the street, and died like the “bravest of the brave.” With his soft hat under his arm, his Kentucky Confederate badge on his breast (from the reunion in Louisville in 1905), he was laid beside his father and mother for whom he had given up his ambition of rising in his profession of civil engineer, becoming the cheerful farmer until the death of his parents, when he came to Palmyra, where he filled many positions of trust. He was a member of Robert Buffner C. V. Camp at Hannibal. Kelion was one of the most truthful persons I was ever acquainted with. This was a trait he inherited. “If you cannot speak the truth,” he said, “say nothing.” He was always chivalrous toward women and loved children to a great degree, and was an uncommon judge of men.
Always uncomplaining, he said only once when ill, looking at the clock, “It is so long.” He was ill eighteen days.
Kelion, as he was always called until his army life, was only two years older than myself, and I corresponded with him when possible until the last sixteen years of his life, during which he lived in my home. I wish to say here that I can never forget the kindness of those who ministered to him in his last illness. He was the last link that bound me to the past.
Indiana W. Peddicord-Logan and Samuel Logan were married in St. Marys, Pleasant County, Virginia, May 15, 1855. They had three children:
1. Eugene W., born June 27, 1856; died August 18, 1857.
2. Minnehaha, born May 21, 1858.
3. Ernest Lee, born April 26, 1862; died August 8, 1893.
Samuel Logan died of apoplexy in Parkersburg, West Virginia, April 14, 1896. He was buried in Palmyra, Missouri, April 17, 1896.