Grandmother Bell

BELL, WATERHOUSE, MELLINGER

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 3/12/2024 at 07:40:20

The Wapello Republic, Wapello, Iowa
Thursday, April 27, 1893
Page 1

Oakville, April 25- Grandmother Bell, as she is known here, died Sunday near noon very suddenly. She has been an invalid for several years on account of being very fleshy, weighing near 300 pounds the last time she was weighed. She has been unwell for a short time. She was sitting up in bed eating her dinner when the summons came and drew but two or three more breaths. She was near seventy years of age. She leaves four children to mourn their loss, two sons and two daughters, Jas. P. Bell of Burlington, William with whom she lived, Mrs. Alice Waterhouse and Mrs. Henry Mellinger. She was interred Monday in the Creighton cemetery.