Michael Rufus Bell (1889)
BELL, HUTCHINGS, MACAUGHAN
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:21
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 24, 1889
Page 4, Column 3Death of Reufus Bell.
Intelligence of the death of Rufus Bell, of Great Bend, Kansas, by consumption, was received here Monday evening.
Mr. Bell was a man well known in Winterset and was raised in this county. He has many friends and relatives in the county who heard the news with great sorrow.
He came here last summer and accompanied his sister, Mrs. J. J. Hutchings to Spirit Lake, hoping that the trip might do him good.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 7, 1889
Page 4, Column 2M. R. Bell
DIED-At in Great Bend, Kansas, on Sunday, January 0th, 1889, after a long illness resulting from army exposure, M. R. Bell, aged 45 years, 1 month and 7 days.
Many and many a day of late the first inquiries of our people, as they reached their places of business in the morning, have been, “How is Rufe Bell this morning?” and when told from time to time that the battle was still on; that the old soldier still fought bravely for life, and home and wife and little ones, a hope was sprung in many a heart and been uttered by many lips that the brave man might conquer and worthy live. But God willed otherwise.
He was a native of Ohio, removing to Winterset, Iowa, when but a young lad. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he enlisted as a private, when not yet 18 years of age, in Company F., 4th Iowa Infantry, and served his country well on many a battle field.
He was married in 1870 to Miss Annie McCaughn, of Winterset, and removed to Great Bend in 1876, having resided here ever since, numbering as his personal friends most of the people of Barton county. He leaves a wife and three children, who have the deserved deep sympathy of their many friends.
The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church at 2 p. m., Jan. 22, Rev. J. W. Thompson delivering the obituary address. Pap Thomas Post, G. A. R., and the Sons of Veterans accompanied the remains to their last resting place. – Barton County (Kansas) Democrat.
________________________Transcriber's note: Transcribed as published, wife's maiden name is "McCaughan" per her parents gravestone. Deceased's first name "Michael" has not been verified.
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