John Bell (1838-1887)

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Posted By: Dennis and Gail Bell (email)
Date: 8/9/2005 at 18:04:50

BELL, JOHN SR. 28 April 1838 - 17 Mar 1887

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, March 17, 1887, page 1, column 4. “Monday, March 14th, the families of Messers. L. H. and John Bell started from this place, in company with Mr. Chas. Murphy and family for O’Neill, Neb., where L. H. and John had preceded them with their household goods and stock.”

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, March 24, 1887, page 1, column 3. “It is with feelings of sadness that we publish the death of John Bell, Sr., who died at O’Neill, Neb., March 17th. It is but a short time since he bade farewell to his friends in this vicinity and started west in good health and high spirits, with a bright prospect of securing a home for himself and family. But how soon is everything changed and sorrow and bereavement take the place of pleasure. His family left here last Monday Mar. 14, and only reached him two days before his death.”

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, March 24, 1887, page 1, column 4. “DIED: In O’Neill, Neb., March 17, ’87, at 9:35 P. M., of urinary disease, Mr. John Bell, formerly of near Maxwell, Iowa, late of Holt Co., Neb. Mr. Bell was born in Indiana, moved to Iowa in the fall of ’84; moved to Nebraska, March 12 ’87. Just one week from the day he started he was a corpse. He served three years in the war of the Rebellion was wounded in the battle of Chickamanga. He leaves a wife and six children, the oldest being fourteen years old, to mourn their loss. They have the sympathy of the entire community. Lewis H. Bell.”

BURIAL: Prospect Cemetery, O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska. BELL, John 28 April 1838 – 17 March 1887 4th Ind Battery. (1900 & 1910 John’s wife Mary is living in Chicago, Illinois.)