Located in Deerfield Township, Livingston County, Michigan
Father Kelly was the first pastor of St. Augustine's Catholic Church when it was founded in 1843. He was born in 1802 at Bally Callan, Ireland. He was ordained in Ireland in 1820 or 1821. He sailed for America shortly after ordination and probably disembarked at the Port of New York. First Catholic Church in Rochester, New York was built under his guidance. He came to Detroit, Michigan in 1829 and was commissioned to service Irish Catholics in Wayne and surrounding cities. In 1831 he left his traveling ministry to found and pastor St. Patrick's Church in Northfield Township in Washtenaw County. Later he served from 1835 to 1838 at Ann Arbor Catholic. These churches were in the heart of the region's largest concentration of Catholic's of Irish heritage. From this area west, it is still known as the Irish Hills. In 1838 he became the first resident pastor of the diocese of Milwaukee. He returned to Detroit in 1842. In 1843 he renewed his roving ministry from his base in Green Oak, a small village in Southeast Livingston County. He had very few worldly goods, carried his vestments in a small satchel and kept his trunk full of books at Green Oak. He made his circuit of churches, extending from Ingram and Jackson to Oakland Counties (including Deerfield in Livingston, Oceola and Bunker Hill in Ingram County and St. John's of Fenton, traveling as far east as Pontiac), once every three or four months. Until he was able to purchase a horse he made his rounds on foot. In 1856 he was appointed to St. John's Parish in Dearborn, now known as Sacred Heart. He served there until his death on October 7, 1858 at the age of 56.