Nathaniel Bell
(1803-1880)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Thompkins

Nathaniel Bell 2 3

  • Born: 1803, , Washington County, KY 3
  • Marriage (1): Mary Thompkins on 28 December 1826 in , Hardin County, KY 1
  • Died: 1880, Walla Walla, WA at age 77
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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1850 US Census in Township 9 North Range 10, Jersey County, IL on 10 September 1850. 3

1850 US Census
Page 62A, Dwelling 19, Family 19, Roll 111
Township 9 North Range 10 West, Jersey County, Illinois
Nathaniel Bell..45..KY..Farmer
(Living with wife, 5 children, married daughter, Rachel, and her husband.)

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Nathaniel married Mary Thompkins on 28 December 1826 in , Hardin County, KY.1 (Mary Thompkins was born on 8 April 1802 in Virginia 1 and died in 1857.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Township 9 North Range 10, Jersey County, IL on 10 September 1850. 3

1850 US Census
Page 62A, Dwelling 19, Family 19, Roll 111
Township 9 North Range 10 West, Jersey County, Illinois
Nathaniel Bell..45..KY..Farmer
Mary Bell..46..Unknown
John A. Bell..17..IL
Louiza Bell..15..IL
Simon Arnspiger..26..KY..Farmer...Married within the year
Rachel Arnspiger..20..IL..Married within the year
Miles Bell..11..IL
Mary C. Bell..9..IL
Ira Bell..4..IL

NOTE - Rachel Bell married Simon Arnspiger in 1849 and they both were living with her parents.
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Sources

1 Geraldine Bell (E-mail messages. Great Granddaughter of Nathaniel and Mary Bell and Granddaughter of Miles Bell and Jane Jefferson Bell. Daughter of Charles Arthur Bell and Geraldine Bell.).

2 Jennifer (Owens) Ackerfield, "Allen, Blake, Clark, Cordell, Davis, Grow, Hays, Love, Mayes, McCracken, Moore, Nutter, Owens, Pauly, Simon, Spiering, Winters," database, RootsWeb (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jrowens11 : accessed 7 Nov 2012).

3 1850 U.S. census, population schedule, Township 9 North Range 10 West, Jersey County, Illinois, p. 62A, dwelling 19, family 19, Nathaniel Bell and Mary Thompkins; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 17 May 2017); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 111.

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