Benjamin F. Bell and Priscilla Wise

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Husband Benjamin F. Bell ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 May 1837 - Pine Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: George W. Bell (1811-1886) 1 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Starr (1816-1897) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 13 Dec 1858 1

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   Other Spouse: Katherine Nolf (      -Aft 1914) 1 - 13 Dec 1893 1

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Wife Priscilla Wise ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 F Mary Bell ¹

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2 M James Bell ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin F. Bell

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He was obliged to begin hard work when a mere boy, so that his opportunities for obtaining an education were limited. He worked part of the time at home and the rest for others until his marriage, and a few years later, on Aug. 8, 1862, entered the Union service, enlisting in Company K, 155th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was sent to Pittsburgh and on to the South, and took part in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, as well as other engagements. Being taken sick with malarial fever, he was discharged on account of disability Jan. 3, 1863, and returned home. He never fully recovered from the effects of this illness, which caused the almost total loss of his hearing.
After the war Mr. Bell was variously employed, as pilot on the river, as foreman in the ore mines, and in farming to some extent. He prospered, and owned several dwellings in the village of Templeton, as well as ten acres in Pine township. He was an active and public-spirited citizen, giving service in the local offices of trust to which he was elected, having been constable, over-seer of the poor and road supervisor of his township.
Late in life, Mr. Bell was very well preserved for a man of his years, and he ascribed this to his temperate habits, as he did not use tobacco in any form and was a strict teetotaler. On political questions he was a stanch Republican. He once held membership in James O'Donnell Post, No. 281, G. A. R., later transferring to John F. Croll Post, Kittanning.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 875.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1190.

3 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 944.