Charles S. Bell and Mary Ellen DeFrain

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Husband Charles S. Bell ¹

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           Born: Abt 1834 - Northumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 1911 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 1
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         Father: [Father] Bell (      -      )
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Wife Mary Ellen DeFrain ¹

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           Born: 1842 - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aug 1913 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob DeFrain (1822-1894) 1 2
         Mother: Susan Boon(e) (      -      ) 1 2

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Children

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1 M William F. Bell ³

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           Born: 1 Jan 1864 - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Nettie McKee (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 29 Nov 1894 3

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2 F Ella Bell ³

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         Spouse: Frank S. Lewis (      -      ) 3

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3 F Bessie B. Bell ³

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         Spouse: Harry C. Phillis (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Charles S. Bell

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His boyhood was spent in the county of his birth, and while attending school he devoted his spare time to learning the cabinetmaker's trade, discontinuing both at the time of the California gold discoveries to join a band journeying across the plains. Despite a careful and continuous search that extended over a period of about two years, fortune did not reward his seeking, and he returned to Pennsylvania, convinced as were many others, that such arduous labor with so uncertain compensation was not worth while, and that the same degree of energy expended in regular and legitimate business would, in the majority of cases, bring far greater returns. He was still little more than a boy in years when he returned to Pennsylvania, and when a young man he moved to Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, where he was married and in which place he remained until 1876. In that year he and his family made their home in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, where he lived until his death, being proprietor of a retail furniture store. His political inclination was Republican, and in Union County he and his wife had been members of the Lutheran Church, in Beaver County associating with the Presbyterian Church.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 161.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 41.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 163.