James A. Bell (1880)

BELL

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Date: 8/29/2007 at 18:58:59

Winterset Madisonian - August 12, 1880
Winterset, Iowa
page 6

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James Bell, of Crawford, died last Sunday evening after a tedious sickness. He leaves a wife and seven children.

Note: Burial was made in the Blair Chapel cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian - October 7, 1880
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

REPORT OF COL. H. J. B. CUMMINGS-HISTORIAN

In memory of:

James A. Bell was private in Company K, 10th Iowa Infantry. I have been unable to learn the particulars of military history further than that he enlisted December 16, 1861, and was mustered out December 24, 1864. He died about the 8th of August, 1880, leaving a wife and eight children.