In the name of God. Amen! I, Joseph Bell, of the County of Augusta, and state of Virginia, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make my last Will and Testament in manner following, towit: I give my soul to Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the Earth, all my …
Matrimonies solemnized and confirmed at St. Catherine, Jamaica previous to 1680.
A Coat of Arms is an emblem which is displayed by titled persons, persons of royal blood, and their descendants. Coats of Arms were originally used for purposes of identification and recognition on the field of battle as well as in civil life. It is claimed by some writers that Coats of Arms, in a …
Since 1918 William H. Bell has been holding the office of post-master of Pryor and he is carrying out to the best of his ability the duties devolving upon him as the incumbent in that office. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 2d of January, 1894, a son of William B. and …
1929 The following prominent Bells of the British Empire are listed in WHO’S WHO (British) CAPT. ADOLPHUS EDMUND BELL , London ; Lieut-Comdr. Archibald Colquhoun; Archibald Graeme, London; Lt.-Col. Arthur Hugh; Arthur William, Guernsey, England; Rev. Benjamin, Edinburgh; Bernard Humphrey, Chief Justice of the Sudan; Sir Charles; Rev. Canon Charle, Carlyle, York, Eng.; Charles Francis; …
Person Interviewed: Rev. James Singleton Location: Mississippi Date of Birth: 1856 “My name’s James Singleton. I’se a Baptist preacher. I was born in 1856, but I doan know zactly what date. My mammy was Harr’et Thompson. Her marster was Marse Daniel Thompson over in Simpson County on Strong River at a place called Westville. My …
Original images, and index, of Thomas B. Yarbrough’s store ledger which he kept while conducting business in Honey Grove, Texas. Volume 1 covers the years of 1 Jan 1883-Jul 1884.
COL. JOHN COLGATE BELL. – Colonel Bell, enjoying a wide reputation from Southern Oregon to Idaho, and back again to the Pacific seashore throughout the state in which he has successively lived and made a multitude of personal acquaintances, merits a special recognition on account of his public services in official relations and in the …
One of the oldest families in the County of Lanark, Ontario, is that of the Bells, the first settler here of that name of any prominence being the Rev. William Bell, a native of Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, his father, Andrew Bell, owning at one time most of the present site of the city of …
2nd Lt. 113th Field Artillery, Battery F, 30th Div. Trained at Camp Sevier, S. C. Was then sent to Officers Training Camp at Leon Springs, Texas. From there to artillery school in France. Commissioned 2nd Lt. July 12, 1918; assigned from this school to U. S. Field Artillery Motor Training Center at La Blanc Dept. …
James Bell, b, –?; m, ______?; d. 7-17-92 (July – 1792) 1) Joseph Bell. Descendants. (a)b.____? D. 1833-34. From his will, which will hereafter be copied in this record, it will be presumed that he never married, as he left no descendants. 2) William Bell, b.____? d. 10-1805, Nelson Co. KY m.______? 3) James Bell, b._____?, …
E130 JOHN BELL, of Nether Steele, and previously of Blackbank, both in Allendale, Northumberland: m. 1744, Elizabeth Kirk, of Allendale. (1) William-E131. (2) John: b. 1750. (3) Mary: b. 1745-6. (4) Margaret: b. 1747. (5) Ann: b. 1753. (6) Elizabeth : b. 1755. E131 WILLIAM, of the Steele, Allendale, and afterwards of Anfield House, Lanchester, …
Bentleysville was a rural community of three hundred persons in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1868. It had grown around a mill that Sheshbazzar Bentley Junior and Senior operated on the southern branch of Pigeon Creek. Its history is short because as a country village it existed less than a century. The events are substantially in chronological order, beginning with the settlers over the mountains in 1750 and ending after the Centennial in 1916.
Hon. W. H. Bell, whose operations in the real estate field have contributed much to the development of the city, has also been prominently connected with the upbuilding of Racine through his activity in the political field, doing important work as a member of the city council, while upon the legislative records of the state …
Captain George Henry Bell, believed to be son of Frederick Bell, married a sister of General Herkimer and was a man of considerable note in the revolution. He was well educated and wrote a neat, compact hand with much rapidity, we are told in an account of him in the old history of the Mohawk …
CUSHMAN (Taunton family). The Cushman family of Taunton here briefly reviewed, the family and lineage of the late Hon. Horatio Leonard Cushman, long one of the leading citizens and substantial men of Taunton, at one time the city’s chief executive officer, and who had served most efficiently in both branches of the city government, as …
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George Bell, pastor of St. Paul’s Presbyterian church, Walkerton, was born in Perth, Ontario, September 8, 1819. His father, Rev. William Bell, a native of Airdrie, Scotland, was a pioneer preacher at Perth, and pastor of a Presbyterian church there from 1817 to 1857 just forty years, and there died in August, 1857; and his …
K183 ROBERT BRUCE, KING OF SCOTLAND, had: K184 PRINCESS MARY: m. Walter, Lord High Steward, and had: K185 ROBERT II, KING OF SCOTLAND, who had by his first wife: K186 PRINCESS CATHERINE: m. David, Earl of Crawford, and had: K187 LADY ELIZABETH LINDSAY: m. Sir William Douglas, and had: K188 SIR HENRY DOUGLAS, of Lochlevan: …
BELL, AARON. The name of his wife was Isabel. They had Mary, b. March 19, 1721. lMartha, b. April 1, 1724. Elizur, b. July 8, 1726. Sarah, b. July 4, 1728. He lived where there is now a cellar, south of Mr. Robert Young’s.
The following Bells resided in the respective colonies as shown by the census records of 1790, now on file in the Census Office at Washington , D. C. The figure following each name indicates the number of times that the name appears in the records. CONNECTICUT : Abraham, Benjamin, Elisha, Jeanus, Joannah, John, 2; John, …
