Descendants of Samuel & Sarah Bell

 

First Generation

 

      1. Samuel BELL 1  was born2  about 1747 in Virginia. He died3,4  on 21 Mar 1778/1780 in Washington Co., Virginia.

 

First record of Samuel Bell in Washington County Virginia was 1772. He was a signer of the petition to call Reverend

Charles Cummings to serve the ministerial needs of the Ebbing and Sinking Springs Presbyterian congregations.

 

Subsquentialy, Samuel drew up his will in February of 1780 and it was probated in Washington County Court March 21 of

that same year. It was recorded in Will Book No. 1, page 37. In his will, he named his wife as Sarah and his two children as

James and Hannah Bell. Each was to enjoy a third of his estate. In addition, James was to be bound out to David Beaty

with as much as one third of James' share going towards this venture. Executors were Andrew Bogan and Samuel Evans.

William Evins and Andrew Evans proved the will in court. Bond in the amount of four thousand pounds was posted by

Samuel Evans, Andrew Bogan, William Blackburn, and William Beaty. No other mention of the settlement of this estate is

mentioned in Washington County records.    

Sources: 1) Washington County Will Book No. 1, page 37_                 2) Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800, Volume II,

pages 1343, 1355 (from Mathew T. Bell)

 

The family may also have lived in the Glade Springs area near present day Washington Co., Tennessee before moving to

Madison Co., Kentucky. He was of the Presbyterian faith.

 

Samuel married5  Sarah  before 1774 in Frederick, Virginia. Sarah was born6  about 1756 in Virginia. She died7,8  about 1860 in Wilkes Co., Georgia.

 

While possible to have lived over 100 years during the 18th and 19th centuries it is doubtful.

 

 

Samuel and Sarah had the following children:

               2 F         i.  Hannah BELL 9  was born10,11  in 1767/1772 in Washington Co., Virginia.

 

First official record of Hannah Bell came when she was named in her father's will which was recorded in

1780 in Washington County, Virginia. It wasn't until March 16, 1784 before terms of that will began to

unfold. On that date she appeared in a Lincoln County, Kentucky Court to select a guardian. A guardian

bond was posted by Daniel McKinny, Samuel Briggs, and Hugh Logan. It carried an obligation of one

thousand pounds. Logan was chosen as guardian. Then on 27 September 1787, Robert Montgomery

gave his consent for her marriage to Elijah Harbour. In 1795 Elijah and Hannah were living in Madison

County, Kentucky on a track of land that was bordered by one owned by Sarah Bell. Both properties

were situated on Silver Creek and purchased from George Smith of Powhattan County, Virginia. Another

interesting fact was that Hannah and James Bell appeared on the Madison County Tax roll as co-owners

of an 1875 Acre track in Mason County on the Licking River. Later tax records show that Elijah Harbour

was the Assignee of this property. The survey and land warrant described the owners as the heirs of

Samuel Bell.  The Bells and Harbours migrated south together to Wilson County, Tennessee where they

appeared in the same tax district in 1804 and 1805. Eventually, they moved to Rutherford and Warren

Counties. The Bells settled on the East Fork of the Stones River near the mouth of Hollis Creek and the

Harbours just south of there in Warren County. __Sources: 1) Index to Early Kentucky & Virginia Land

Records by Hammond/Brookes-Smith and Jilson_2:490. James and Hannah Bell survey and grant on

Treasury Warrant NO. 8433 for 1875 A on Licking near the mouth of Foxes Creek ....being in Bourbon

County... assigned to Elijah Harber. 25 Oct. 1793. __2) 1795 Madison County Tax census entered 2 June

1795 for James and Hannah Bell for 1875 Acres on Licking in Mason County, Kentucky. No taxes due or

collected.__3) Copy of bond made by Logan, Briggs, and McKinny for guardianship of Hannah Bell.

Found in the loose papers housed in the Lincoln County Court House. Also, Lincoln County Kentucky

Records, Volume II by Michael Cook, page 82. Selection of Hugh Logan as guardian. __4) Grantor/

 

Grantee Index of Deeds for Madison County Kentucky.

 

 

Hannah married Elijah HARBOUR 12,13  on 27 Sep 1787 in Lincoln Co., Kentucky. Elijah was born in 1763/1765 in Virginia. He died about 1838 in Wayne Co., Tennessee.

 

+          3 M        ii.  James BELL  was born about 1777. He died in Sep 1828.

 

 

Second Generation

 

      3. James BELL 14,15  (Samuel) was born16  about 1777 in Washington Co. Virginia. He died in Sep 1828 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

James Bell was the first clerk of the Brawley Fork Baptist Church. His affiliation with this church is born out in a deed dated

15 July 1807 between Joshua Barton of the one part and James Bell and William Hollis and other trustees of the other part.

It was a gift of land to be used for the future site of the Brawley Fork Church located south-east of Readyville. __James died

testate in 1828. When his plantation was eventually sold to Maxwell Chambers of Rowan County, North Carolina, all of the

living heirs had to approve its sale. This gave a unique snapshot in time, 1842, as to where his children had all relocated

following his death. One was in Illinois, some still in Tennessee, and others in Missouri.  The land owned by James Bell

using today’s milestones was on both sides of Hollis Creek. Its northerly border would have intersected Hollis Road at the

point the road now crosses over from the west to the east bank. Its easterly line would have run below and back of

Campbell's residence. Its once southerly reaches would have extended across the new Murfreesboro to Woodbury

Highway. On the west it would have included the southern half of River Road and both sides of the Stones River.

Neighbors then were Thomas Rucker and James Cherry to the north; Gideon Rucker to the west; and Burrell Walker to the

south west. __Prior to moving to Tennessee, James Bell was an early resident of both Lincoln and Madison County

Kentucky. His sister, Hannah, married Elijah Harbour in Lincoln County in 1787. On the 1795 tax census for Madison

County he and Hannah were listed as owners of 1875 acres in Mason County, assignee of which was Elijah Harbour. This

property originated from a Treasury Warrant, #8433. The land survey, #490, was made on March 26, 1789 and recorded in

Book 1, page 313. When James' mother, Sarah, sold her 60 acres in 1796 to Barnabas Johnson, she and Elijah Harbour

had been living on adjoining parcels located on Silver Creek. Both parcels were purchased from George Smith of

Powhatan County Virginia.

 

1800 Census: living in Madison Co., Tennessee.

 

James married20,21  Susannah LEWIS 17,18,19  daughter of Abraham LEWIS Jr. and Esther TODD on 24 Mar 1796 in Madison Co., Kentucky. Susannah was born on 24 Apr 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. She died after 1850 in Barry Co., Missouri.

 

Possibly born in Loudin, Virginia

 

 

James and Susannah had the following children:

 

+          4 M        i.  Elisha BELL  was born on 25 Jan 1797. He died on 30 Oct 1834.

               5 F         ii.  Sarah BELL  was born22  about 1800 in Madison Co., Tennessee.

               6 F        iii.  Elizabeth BELL  was born23  about 1803.

 

+          7 F        iv.  Esther BELL  was born about 1804. She died about 1848.

               8 F        v.  Margaret BELL  was born24  about 1805 in Wilson Co., Tennessee.

               9 M       vi.  William BELL  was born25  about 1806.

 

+        10 M      vii.  Rev. Samuel BELL  was born about 1809.

 

+        11 F      viii.  Mary "Polly" BELL  was born about Feb 1813. She died about 1901.

 

             12 F        ix.  Martha BELL  was born26  about 1815 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

+        13 M       x.  Abraham Lewis BELL  was born about 1816. He died in Nov 1853.

             14 F        xi.  Nancy Ermiline BELL  was born27  about 1820 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

 

Third Generation

 

      4. Elisha BELL 28  (James, Samuel) was born on 25 Jan 1797 in Madison Co., Kentucky. He died29  on 30 Oct 1834 in Auburntown, Cannon Co., Tennessee. He was buried in Saffel Cemetery, Auburntown, Cannon Co., Tennessee.

 

Occ: Baptist Minister

Title: Rev.

Elisha was an ordained minister sent out by the Brawley Fork Baptist Church, as noted in "Grime's History of Middle

Tennessee Baptists".

 

Elisha married30,31  Martha BURGE  about 1815/1816 in Tennessee. Martha was born32  on 6 Jun 1797 in North Carolina. She died33  on 24 Nov 1879 in Newton Co., Missouri. She was buried in Old Civil War Cemetery, Newton Co., Missouri.

 

They had the following children:

 

+        15 M        i.  Rev. James BELL  was born on 10 Jan 1816. He died on 26 Mar 1877.

             16 M        ii.  Jeremiah BELL  was born34  on 24 Sep 1817 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. He was buried in Old Civil War Cemetery, Newton Co., Missouri.

             17 F        iii.  Sarah Rebecca BELL  was born35  about 1818 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

             18 F        iv.  Louisa C. BELL  was born36  on 18 Dec 1821 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

+        19 M       v.  William Martin BELL  was born about 1825. He died about 1889.

             20 F        vi.  Amy Elizabeth BELL  was born37  about 1827 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

             21 F       vii.  Susannah D. BELL  was born38  on 15 Mar 1828 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. She died39  on 2 Jun 1907 in Neosho, Newton Co., Missouri.

 

Susannah Bell, daughter of Elisha and Martha Burge Bell, married William Hubbard Jr. Most of us

believe that Martha had married William Hubbard after the death of Elisha and before 1850 and possibly

before arriving in Newton Co. MO. Susannah was living in the William and Martha household in 1850.

  The Hubbards were from Wilson Co. TN. near the area that Elisha and Martha had been living. Finally,

Martha is buried in Newton Co. Mo so she had obviously been living there and was likely remarried. All

this points to a likelihood that Martha Hubbard and Martha Burgie were one and the same. Richard

Burge in James Bell's will and the resulting surrender of notes held by James Bell on Richard Burge to

Elisha suggests that a family tie to Burge.  Comment from Thomas J. Bell

 

 

Susannah married William R. HUBBARD 40  on 6 May 1847 in Newton Co., Missouri. William was born on 11 Apr 1825 in Wilson Co., Tennessee.

 

      7. Esther BELL  (James, Samuel) was born41  about 1804. She died about 1848 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

Esther married John HOLLIS  on 14 Sep 1823 in Rutherford Co., TN. John was born about 1803 in Madison Co., Kentucky. He died on 4 Oct 1874 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

 

 

John and Esther had the following children:

 

+        22 F         i.  Susan Jane HOLLIS  was born about 1824. She died before 1850.

             23 M        ii.  Andrew L. HOLLIS  was born in 1826.

 

+        24 F        iii.  Mary Elizabeth HOLLIS  was born in 1829.

             25 M       iv.  David HOLLIS  was born in 1833.

             26 M       v.  Elisha J. HOLLIS  was born in 1835.

             27 M       vi.  John Hogan HOLLIS  was born in 1838 in Tennessee. He died on 4 Jan 1885.

             28 M      vii.  James Bell HOLLIS Sr.  was born on 8 May 1839 in Tennessee. He died on 21 Oct 1881.

James married Mary Ann CRESSON  on 18 Feb 1866.

             29 M     viii.  William J. HOLLIS  was born in 1846.

 

    10. Rev. Samuel BELL 42  (James, Samuel) was born43,44,45  about 1809 in Culpepper, Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

Occ: Reverend. Notes from author's mother have this previously unnamed Rev. Bell as a circuit riding Baptist preacher to

the Cherokee people of Tennessee.  This may be when the family legend of Indian ancestry came about.

 

Samuel's father may have owned slaves. This was against Samuel's beliefs and may be a reason that he left home.

 

U S Census: 1840 Johnson Township, Crawford Co. Missouri, pg 168

 

U S Census 1850 Lost Creek Township, Newton Co., Missouri, 15 Oct 1850, pg. 363/725: 560/560

Samuel Bell, 41, male, Farmer, TN (b 1809)_Mary, 41, f, Va(?)_Mary, 16, f, TN  James, 18, m, Farmer, TN  Nancy, 14, f,

TN  Abner, 13, m, TN  Susannah, 9, f, MO  Martha Ann, 7, f, MO  Thomas, 2, m, MO

 

* according to Tom Bell it is believed that Samuel BELL passed away between 1850's census and 1860 in Newton Co.,

Missouri

 

Samuel married47  Mary Mildred "Millie" MOORE 46  daughter of Abner MOORE and Mary Ann MAYES on 1 Jul 1828 in Wilson Co., Tennessee. Mary was born48,49  in 1809/1811 in Virginia. She died50  about 1852 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

This woman may be the one from which the alleged Native American blood line comes. Millie is sister to Nancy Moore who

is married to Rev. James Bell brother of her husband.

 

 

Samuel and Mary had the following children:

             30 M        i.  John BELL 51  was born in Granby, Missouri.

             31 M        ii.  Sam BELL 52  was born in Granby, Newton Co., Missouri.

 

+        32 F        iii.  Sara Melissa BELL  was born on 23 Apr 1830. She died on 16 Jul 1902.

             33 F        iv.  Mary BELL 53,54  was born about 1831 in Tennessee.

 

+        34 M       v.  James Berry BELL  was born on 10 Mar 1832. He died on 1 Mar 1884.

             35 F        vi.  Nancy BELL 55  was born about 1836 in Tennessee.

 

+        36 M      vii.  Abner BELL  was born about 1837. He died in 1870/1880.

             37 F      viii.  Eva BELL 56 .

             38 F        ix.  Ella BELL 57 .

             39 F        x.  Susannah BELL 58  was born about 1841 in Missouri.

 

+        40 F        xi.  Martha Anna BELL  was born on 29 Dec 1842. She died on 4 Jun 1922.

 

+        41 M      xii.  Thomas H. BELL  was born in Aug 1848.

             42 F      xiii.  Eliza E. BELL 59  was born about 1850 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

    11. Mary "Polly" BELL  (James, Samuel) was born60,61  about Feb 1813 in Tennessee. She died about 1901 in Benton Co., Arkansas. She was buried in Russell Family Cemetery, Benton Co., Arkansas.

Mary married Samuel J. RUSSELL  about 1830 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. Samuel was born about 1811 in Alabama.

 

Samuel J. Russell (b.1811 in TN; d. 1860) s/o Samuel Russell (b.bet1780-1790)

Spouse: Mary "Polly" Bell (b. Feb 1813 in TN; d.1860)

Child: James B. Russell (b.20 Nov 1833 in TN; d.29 Jan 1876 Benton Co., AR)

          m. Olive Jane Horton (b. abt 1833; d. ?)

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Susan Gibson states: Samuel J. Russell lived in Bedford Co., TN; Polk Co., MO; and Barry Co., MO. [Susan Marie Gibson

<Gibs63@hotmail.com>]

 

 

Samuel and Mary had the following children:

             43 M        i.  James B. RUSSELL  was born on 20 Nov 1833 in Tennessee. He died on 29 Jan 1876 in Benton Co., Arkansas. He was buried in Russell Family Cemetery, Benton Co., Arkansas.

James married Olive Jane HORTON . Olive was born on 20 Mar 1838 in Montgomery, Alabama.

 

+        44 F         ii.  Nancy Elizabeth RUSSELL  was born in 1835. She died in 1901.

 

+        45 F        iii.  Margaret Elizabeth RUSSELL  was born on 7 Apr 1838. She died on 15 Jun 1925.

             46 M       iv.  Elisha RUSSELL  was born in 1840.

             47 F        v.  Susan RUSSELL  was born in 1843.

             48 F        vi.  Martha RUSSELL  was born in 1846.

             49 M      vii.  Samuel J. RUSSELL , Jr.  was born on 17 Nov 1849 in Missouri. He died on 21 Nov 1904 in Benton Co., Arkansas.

Samuel married Martha Ellen MILSTEAD  on 14 Mar 1869 in Benton Co., Arkansas.

 

+        50 F      viii.  Mary Jane RUSSELL  was born in Mar 1852.

             51 F        ix.  Easter RUSSELL  was born in Feb 1855 in Benton Co., Arkansas. She died on 15 Nov 1918 in Benton Co., Arkansas.

Easter married Martin Jefferson WILKINS  on 14 Jul 1872 in Benton Co., AR.

 

    13. Abraham Lewis BELL 62  (James, Samuel) was born about 1816 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. He died in Nov 1853 in Missouri.

Abraham married (1) BRAGG 63  daughter of Thomas BRAGG and Catherine CHERRY about 1840 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. BRAGG was born in 1820/1825 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. She died about 1845 in Tennessee.

 

They had the following children:

 

+        52 M        i.  James Thomas BELL  was born on 25 Sep 1840.

             53 F         ii.  Margaret Elizabeth BELL 64  was born about 1842 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

 

 

Abraham married (2) Rebecca M. POSEY 65,66  about 1848 in Neosho, Newton Co. Missouri . Rebecca was born about 1829 in Tennessee. She died about 1929.

 

They had the following children:

 

+        54 M       iii.  Uriah Abraham BELL  was born on 15 Oct 1848. He died on 8 Mar 1923.

 

 

Fourth Generation

 

    15. Rev. James BELL 67,68,69  (Elisha, James, Samuel) was born on 10 Jan 1816 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. He died70  on 26 Mar 1877 in Newton Co., Missouri. He was buried in Civil War Cemetery, Newtonia, Missouri.

 

Occ: Minister. This Rev. James Bell (corr: Jess Embree 7/2002) may have been a Missionary Baptist Minister, as possibly

was his father (corr: Thomas J. Bell, 12/2002).

 

James married72  Nancy MOORE 71  daughter of Abner MOORE and Mary Ann MAYES on 29 Aug 1839 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. Nancy was born73  about 1819 in Virginia.

 

Sister to Millie Moore.

 

 

James and Nancy had the following children:

             55 F         i.  Susannah BELL  was born74  about 1845 in Missouri.

 

Susannah Bell, daughter of Elisha and Martha Burge Bell, married William Hubbard Jr.

Most of us believe that Martha had married William Hubbard after the death of Elisha

and before 1850 and possibly before arriving in Newton Co. MO. Susannah was living

in the William and Martha household in 1850.  The Hubbards were from Wilson Co. TN.

near the area where Elisha and Martha had been living. Finally, Martha is buried in

Newton Co. Mo so she had obviously been living there and was likely remarried. All

this points to a likelihood that Martha Hubbard and Martha Burge were one and the

same. Richard Burge in James Bell's will and the resulting surrender of notes held by

James Bell on Richard Burge to Elisha suggests that a family tie to Burge. Comment

from Thomas J. Bell

 

             56 F         ii.  Martha Burge BELL  was born75  about 1850 in Illinois.

             57 M       iii.  Granville BELL  was born76  about 1853 in Illinois.

 

    19. William Martin BELL  (Elisha, James, Samuel) was born77,78  about 1825 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. He died79  about 1889 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

 

Ancestral File Number: 467F-D4

 

William married Melinda Jane MCCLELLAN  daughter of "Mack" MCCLELLAN about 1847. Melinda was born80,81  on 26 Feb 1831 in Tennessee. She died on 18 Oct 1912 in Anderson Co., Missouri. She was buried in Anderson Co., Missouri.

 

Also Known As: Melinda McClelland

 

 

William and Melinda had the following children:

             58 F         i.  Martha Elizabeth BELL  was born82  on 2 Jan 1848 in Newton Co., Missouri. She died on 26 Feb 1904 in Anderson, McDonald Co., Missouri. She was buried in Anderson Cemetery, McDonald Co., Missouri.

 

Obit: dtd Feb 26, 1904 Pineville Herald; The wife of J. K. Allen of near(by) Anderson  who was under

medical treatment at this place for the past few months died Monday at noon. The remains were taken to

the Anderson Cemetery for burial Tuesday.

 

 

Martha married John K. ALLEN . John died after 1904.

             59 F         ii.  Nancy Angeline BELL  was born83  in Feb 1849 in Newton Co., Missouri.

Nancy married UNKNOWN BRIGHTMAN 84 .

             60 M       iii.  Albert Porter BELL  was born85  about 1852 in Newton Co., Missouri. He died in Cooke Co., Texas.

Albert married86  Nancy Jane WASHINGTON  daughter of WASHINGTON on 15 Jul 1875 in Cooke Co., Texas. Nancy was born87  about 1861.

             61 M       iv.  James Benson BELL  was born88  on 27 Nov 1854 in Missouri.

James married WASHINGTON  daughter of WASHINGTON.

 

Sister of Nancy Jane Washington who married Albert Porter Bell.

 

             62 F        v.  Tabitha BELL  was born89  about 1856 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

             63 F        vi.  Cynthia BELL  was born90  about 1858 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

             64 M      vii.  John Cannon BELL  was born91  about 1859 in Newton Co., Missouri.

             65 M     viii.  Sterling Price BELL  was born92  on 23 Oct 1861 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

             66 M       ix.  William A. BELL  was born93  on 17 Dec 1863 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

             67 F        x.  Jemima Josephine BELL  was born94  on 17 Apr 1867 in McDonald Co, Missouri. She died on 3 May 1919 in Miami, Oklahoma.

 

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 467F-VJ

 

 

Jemima married William Frank Lewis EMBREE  son of Joseph Wood EMBREE and Martha Anna BELL in Possibly Springfield, Missouri. William was born on 14 Apr 1868 in Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas. He died on 3 Jan 1938 in Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., Kansas.

 

Ancestral File Number:  CKCK-9K

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11

Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/73

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

Ref: correspondence Marge Miller, 6/2001 William  was reportedly of English, and Welsh descent.  His

wife was reportedly1/2 Cherokee Indian.

Jan 18,1913 William was granted a land grant for 80 acres. Also some brothers homesteaded near

Calhan, El Paso County, Colorado.  They later moved to Pueblo, Colorado.

 

             68 M       xi.  Elisha Mack BELL  was born95  on 17 Feb 1869 in McDonald Co., Missouri. He died in 1952.

             69 M      xii.  Charles Franklin BELL 96  was born97  on 15 Aug 1870 in Anderson, McDonald Co., Missouri. He died on 15 Nov 1931 in Bixby, Tulsa Co., Oklahoma.

Charles married Martha Apphia MCMARTIN  on 7 Jun 1892. Martha was born on 6 Apr 1877 in Quincy, Adams Co., Iowa. She died on 22 Oct 1971 in Delaware, Oklahoma.

             70 M     xiii.  Henry Manuel BELL  was born98  on 17 Dec 1873 in McDonald Co., Missouri.

 

Henry married Ida Mae SHAW . Ida was born99  on 12 Jun 1876 in Illinois.

 

    22. Susan Jane HOLLIS  (Esther BELL, James, Samuel) was born about 1824 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. She died before 1850 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

Susan married John Irvin DUBOIS  on 14 Mar 1844 in Cannon Co., TN.

 

They had the following children:

             71 M        i.  James Pleasant DUBOIS  was born about 1846.

 

    24. Mary Elizabeth HOLLIS  (Esther BELL, James, Samuel) was born in 1829 in Cannon Co., Tennessee.

Mary married Harvey T. WILLIAMS  on 15 Nov 1849 in Cannon Co., TN. Harvey was born in 1820/1830. He died after 1857.

 

They had the following children:

             72            i.  Clement WILLIAMS  was born in Aug 1850.

             73 M        ii.  John WILLIAMS  was born in 1853 in Arkansas.

             74 M       iii.  James WILLIAMS  was born in 1854 in Arkansas.

             75 F        iv.  Mary WILLIAMS  was born in 1857 in Arkansas.

 

    32. Sara Melissa BELL 100,101,102  (Samuel, James, Samuel) was born on 23 Apr 1830 in Rutherford Co. Tennessee. She died on 16 Jul 1902 in Newton Co., Missouri. She was related to her parents by adoption.

 

Possibly adopted as a child - parents may have been killed by Indians.

Notes from Martin Wyatt have her born in Seneca, Missouri.

 

     Interview: by Wm. M. Wyatt, April 16, 2000, Medford, Oregon in the home of Marvin and Mary Bandy.  Mary Elizabeth

(Morgan) Bandy, daughter in law to Norma Vaughan who is daughter of Millie Della Roberts-Vaughan, daughter of

MELISSA BELL-DURHAM:

     The following story was told as she heard it from Norma Vaughan.  MELISSA BELL-DURHAM, was orphaned following

her parent's death (supposed to have been killed). Melissa is half Cherokee or possibly full blood Cherokee. Was taken

into the home of an unknown named woman to be cared for.  This woman treated Melissa Bell so badly due to the Indian

background that Melissa, about age seven, killed the woman by slashing her neck while she slept.  Apparently no charges

were filed as it was known this woman had been cruel towards Melissa.  Melissa Bell Durham is said to have bragged

about this thru her adult life.

 

Sara married William W. DURHAM 103,104,105,106  son of John DURHAM and Anna LAMB in 1849/1850 in Newton Co., Missouri. William was born on 8 Sep 1829 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana. He died on 25 Jan 1894 in Seneca, Missouri. He was buried on 26 Jan 1894 in Kirk Cemetery, Seneca, MO.

 

U S Census 1850 Newton County, Missouri, Lost Creek Township, 16 Oct 1850, pg. 364A/727: 576/576                                                                                                                         

Wm Durham, W/M, 20, m, Farmer, IA/IN?  Sarah, 19, f, TN  Next family is John Durham, 62, b NC  --perhaps the father of Wm.

Durham._

U S Census 1860 Newton County, Missouri, Lost Creek Township, Gates PO, 14 June 1860, pg. 27: 167/166

William Durham, 30, male, Farmer, $1580/$858, IN Sarah D(?), 30, f, TN  Mary, 9, f, MO  Martha, 6, f, MO  Margaret, 4, f,

MO  Samantha, 1, f, MO  Martha Bell, 18, f, MO (sister- in-law)

The Missouri State Archives lists 3 different William DURHAMs as members of the Enrolled Militia during the Civil War. Not

enough information is provided to indicate if any of them are this Wm. Durham.

 

            1  _MILT

            2  PLAC Civil War, Union Army

 

 

 As written on 3x5 notepaper by Ira W. Roberts - transcribed verbatim

 

I was born Sept. 17, 1901 on my fathers 24th birthday (John W. Roberts) Daton Twsp 3 mi SE of Daton (Now Racine)

Missouri.

     His father (Frank Roberts) and mother (Mary E. Roberts)  Frank a civil war vet.  Union - Mary E. father name Durham

(Bill) a full blood Irishman - owner of a large land holding in western part of Newton County, Mo.  Wife - part Indian -

enough to be entitled to her share of Indian allotment land - but Great Grandpa Durham forbid.  He gave or donated the

land for the site of the town of what is now Seneca Missouri.

     He was a carpenter of some renown (said to have possessed the largest set of tools west of the Allegany’s)  He also

was an accomplished leather tanner and apparently jack of all trades.

     At the beginning of the civil war with only a few neighbors in that area of Mo.  Most of them sympathetic with the South -

He professed like sympathy while tanning leather and saddle and boots and laying in provisions for his wife and 13

children.  When ready he went to Kansas and joined the Union Army along with his brother.

     Learning of this, his neighbors consisting of the Sparlings - Buzzards and other locals - formed a raiding party and came

in by night, stole all supplies - ran off all cattle and live stock and burned their cabin while Grand mother Durham and 13

children (Grandmother Roberts was 13 years old at that time) hid out in the timber and made it to sympathetic neighbors

until Great grandpa Durham could obtain a furlough and come home - rebuild the cabin and restock the larder.

     This happened time after time although after the war these same bushwhackers became integrated into the family circle

through marriage and many of them are now our relatives.

     At one time when Great grandpa Durham and his brother came home to help replenish the family larder.  They both

were out in front of their cabin without any firearms when a group of horsemen rode up and called them out to the gate -

After a brief conversation the leader yelled 'Dougan Boys` and at that signal the other horsemen took off but the leader

started firing at Great grandfather Durham and his brother - killing his brother but missing Great grandpa Durham.

     At another time when Great grandfather Durham was home to replenish his family larder his bushwhacker friends(?)

surrounded his cabin at night and demanded he come out or they would burn him out.

     It is said that he opened the door and stood behind it and shouted that if they came after him he would get them one by

one.  So they set fire to his cabin and when he came out to fight it out with them they riddled him with buckshot and left him

for dead.  However his sympathetic friends and relatives put him on a horse and took him 16 miles to Neosho Mo. to the

nearest doctor who removed all but 17 of the buckshot (one of which grazed his windpipe) which he carried to his grave.

 

Newspaper unknown: DIED, At his home 2 1/2 miles south of Seneca, Jan. =

25th, 1894, of la grippe (?), William W. Durham, aged 64 years, 4 months =

and 17 days.

 

Mr. Durham was a well known and prominent man in Seneca and this section =

of the country.  He was by profession a surveyor and has run many a line =

in Seneca and Newton county.  He was born at Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 8, =

1829; at the age of 18 moved to this state, and married at 20 to Miss =

Melissa Bell, who survives him.  He has been a resident of Missouri, =

with the exception of five years in Kansas about the time of our civil =

war, and has lived in Seneca and vicinity 20 -25 years.  He has been a =

member of the Baptist Church for more than 40 years and was a Christian =

gentleman, kind neighbor, and generous friend.  His funeral was preached =

at the Baptist Church in this place, on Friday afternoon, and the =

remains interred in the Seneca Cemetery.  Peace to his ashes

 

September 2000: Doug and Dee Lankford now live on this property

523 Peoria St

Seneca, MO 64865

417-776-3338

ddkkland@netins.net

 

"The Durhams, who lived near the present Bethel Church, went to Fort Scott (Kansas) for safety.  When they returned,

everything was gone.  The barn was the only building not burned.  They lived in the loft until they could build another

 

house." [Little Town on the Border/Seneca, Missouri/Volume 1

It is noted that Nelson Durham was born about 1863 in the state of Kansas.  [Source: Chapter 5 Civil War at Border Village.

 

The last one in this list is the one I have a copy of in my files and it

shows John's wife and childrens names plus William W and Sarah as a

separate entry.  By the way, if you don't already have this info, Lost

Creek township was changed to Dayton township and then renamed again to

Racine a long time ago - about 1880 I think.

 

 

William and Sara had the following children:

             76 F         i.  Mary Ellen DURHAM 107  was born on 16 Oct 1850 in Newton Co., Missouri. She was christened on 8 Sep 1894 in a Baptist Church, possibly Newton Co., Missouri. She died on 4 Jan 1938 in Newton Co., Missouri. She was buried in Burkhart Cemetery, Neosho, Newton Co., Missouri.

 

In Mary Ellen Durhams handwriting at age 63

"To Ida Wyatt, When this you see wont you think of me M.E. ROBERTS.  Racine Mo October 16.1913

Mary Ellen Durham was born October 16.1850 baptized into the Baptist Church December 14.1866 

Married J.F. Roberts August 13.1868.  September 8th.1894 he was Baptized into the Church of Christ.

 

8 Jan 1919: Mary provided an affidavit for Martha A. (Bell) Embree on behalf of applying for a widow's

pension for her husband’s service in the Union Army.  /s/ Mary E. Roberts.

 

 

Mary married Joseph Franklin ROBERTS  on 13 Aug 1868 in Racine, MO. Joseph was born on 30 Nov 1842 in St Louis, Missouri. He died on 14 Dec 1917 in Newton Co., Missouri. He was buried in Burkhart Cemetery, Racine, Missouri.

 

Military: Priviate, Co. H, 6th Regiment Kansas Calvary

 

A personal possession was a Carriage Clock, white metal.  Now held by William Martin Wyatt

As of September 2000, David Thornton lives on this property

 

Joseph died at 8:15PM

 

             77 M        ii.  Aaron DURHAM 108  was born on 10 Apr 1852. He died109  before 1860 in Missouri.

             78 F        iii.  Margaret Jane DURHAM 110  was born on 21 Jul 1855. She died111  before 1860 in Missouri.

             79 F        iv.  Martha Ann DURHAM 112  was born on 28 Jun 1856 in Missouri.

             80 F        v.  Samantha DURHAM 113  was born114  about 1859 in Missouri.

             81 M       vi.  Nelson DURHAM 115  was born about 1863 in Kansas.

             82 F       vii.  Paralee DURHAM 116  was born about 1867 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

    34. James Berry BELL 117,118,119  (Samuel, James, Samuel) was born on 10 Mar 1832 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. He died on 1 Mar 1884 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

1870 Census; Granby Twp., Newton County, Missouri. Pg 383

1880 Census; Granby Twp., Newton Co., Missouri. Pg 534C

 

James married Ellen POUND 120  in 1855 in Newton Co., Missouri. Ellen was born on 1 Sep 1834 in Missouri.

 

They had the following children:

             83 F         i.  Mary F. BELL 121  was born about 1857.

             84 M        ii.  Francis Marion BELL 122  was born on 29 Oct 1858 in Newton Co., Missouri. He died on 4

 

Mar 1918 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

Occ: lead miner

1900 Census: living in Ward 1, Granby Twp., Newton Co., Missouri.

Divorced Maggie 1897.

 

 

Francis married Maggie COURGES 123  in 1884 in Newton Co., Missouri. The marriage ended in divorce.

 

    36. Abner BELL 124  (Samuel, James, Samuel) was born about 1837 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. He died125  in 1870/1880 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

1860 Census; 1860 Newton County, Missouri, Neosho Township, 8 June 1860, pg. 54:_369/367 Abner Bell, 21, male, Farm

Laborer, TN. *living with William & Susanna Hubbard both born in TN

1870 Census; Granby Twp., Newton Co., Missouri, pg 383. Household of brother; James Berry Bell.

 

Abner married Ann WESTFALL  on 12 Feb 1862 in Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas. Ann was born about 1844 in Indiana.

 

They had the following children:

             85 M        i.  John James Lewis BELL  was born on 10 Apr 1867 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

    40. Martha Anna BELL 126  (Samuel, James, Samuel) was born127  on 29 Dec 1842 in Berry Co., Missouri. She died128,129,130  on 4 Jun 1922 in St. Anthony, Fremont Co., Idaho. She was buried131,132  on 10 Jun 1922 in Roselawn Cemetery, Sec 24, Blende, Pueblo Co., Colorado.

 

Cause of Death: Pneumonia, senility

Ancestral File Number: 1TB3-2R9

Birth in Newton Co., Missouri from another IGI-North America source.

 

1860 Census: living w/ William & Sarah M. (Bell) Durham Family (bro-in-law) Lost Creek Twp., Newton Co., Missouri. Pg

834.

 

1861: witness to wedding was a Mary E. Roberts, according to affidavit of Martha for widow's pension. 

Documents from U S Gov't pension office show she was receiving $36.00/month pension as a widow of a Union veteran. 

 

1896 Pueblo City Directory shows her and her husband living at 722 E. 3rd St, Pueblo, Colorado. The Embree's did not

appear in the 1895 directory. 

 

1919: signed pension documents with an "X" witnessed by A. L. Hoover and Winnie Hoover in Pueblo, Colorado.

 

1922; Her last pension payment was for $30/month in May 1922.

Transcript of obituary: Pueblo Chieftain (unk date); "The body of Mrs. Martha Anna Embree arrived Thursday afternoon

from St. Anthony, Idaho accompanied by her daughter Mrs. Leffler.  Funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 pm from

United Davis-Vories chapel.  Internment Roselawn."

 

It is unclear if she was visiting or was living in St. Anthony, Idaho at time of death.  Daughter Della Leffler was informant on

death certificate. NOTE: Della did not appear to know the names of her own maternal grandparents, as they are listed as "

Mr. and Mrs. Bell"

 

Embree, Martha A.

Pueblo Chieftain June 11, 1922, The funeral of Martha A. Embree took place Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the

United Davis-Vories chapel. Rev. Wm B. Kirby conducted the services, Mrs. S.C. Ainley and Mrs. E.R. Owens

accompanied by Mrs. Orval Wilson sang “Come, Ye Disconsolate,” “Face to Face” and “Rock of Ages”. The pall bearers

were Clarence Embree, George Embree, Harold Poor, Earl Culvertson <Culbertson>, Boone Dairs <Davis> and Chas.

Hughes. Interment was made in Roselawn cemetery.

 

 

Ref: Kathleen (Morrow) Dodson (10-2003); Her mother's records indicated Martha's ancestry was of  Cherokee, English,

and French origins.

 

Martha married135  Joseph Wood EMBREE 133,134  son of John EMBREE and Hannah WOOD on 10 Feb 1861 in Seneca, Newton Co., Missouri. Joseph was born136,137  on 29 Dec 1838 in Chesterfield, Athens, Union Co., Ohio. He died138  on 1 Oct 1918 in Pueblo, Colorado. He was buried139  on 6 Oct 1918 in Roselawn Cemetery, Sec 24, Blende, Pueblo Co., Colorado.

 

Occ: Farmer, Carpenter, Teamster

Cause of Death:  Acute lobar pneumonia

Ancestral File Number:  1TB3-2MG

 

1864 Union Civil War Veteran; Pvt Co. "C", 40th Iowa Vol Inf.  Nat'l Archives cert 866896/National Park Service Archives

#M541 roll 8.  Documents from Civil War veterans pension application: possible place of birth Washington Co., Ohio.

Entered Union service Jan 15, 1864, from Davenport, Iowa. Discharged Aug 2, 1865 at Ft. Gibson, Cherokee Nation

(Oklahoma). Lived in Sioux City, IA 1865-1888, Missouri 1888-1895, Pueblo, CO 1895-1907, Calhan, CO 1907-1909. 

During service he claimed to have been injured by gunfire while on a steam boat near Little Rock, Arkansas. Despite

numerous witness claims of support the War Dept denied his claim due to lack of medical evidence from the time in his

record.

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11 Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/

73

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

1880 U S census living in Walnut, Layton Twp., Pottawattamie Co., Iowa (family name spelled "Ernbry" Household:_

Name                                Rel Mar                 Gen Race Age Birth Occ            Fa Birth Mo Birth         

Joseph ERNBRY Self M                M     W       41    OH   Carpenter CAN       CAN                

Martha A. EMBRY Wife  M F W 37  MO  Keep House TN     VA            

Eliza E. EMBRY               Dau        S             Female W            18           MO         At School               OH          MO

Josephine B. EMBRY Dau            S             Female W            16           IA             At School               OH          MO Martha F.

EMBRY Dau     S             Female W            14           IA             At School               OH          MO

William L. EMBRY Sister               S             Female W            12           KS           At School               OH          MO

Francis EMBRY               Son         S             Male       W            9              MO         At School               OH          MO

Lulu EMBRY    Dau        S             Female W            6              IA             At School               OH          MO

Dolly EMBRY   Dau        S             Female W            2              IA             At Home                OH          MO

____EMBRY    Dau        S             Female W            2M          IA             At Home                OH          MO

 

Source Information:

Census Place   Walnut, Pottawattamie, Iowa            

Family History Library Film            1254361               

NA Film Number             T9-0361

Page Number 197B

 

1896 Pueblo City Directory, pg 185 address 722 E. 3rd St. occupation Carpenter

 

1899 Pueblo City Directory lists occupation as teamster.

 

1910 census: El Paso County, CO, Sup Dist 3, ED 30, sheet 6B 29 April 1910

EMBREE, Joseph W. 71, M2, b Ohio, parents b Ohio, farmer, own farm

EMBREE, Martha 61, M1, b MO, 8 children/7 living, parents b TN

   living next to Charles P HUGHES family (son-in-law)

 

1911 received land grant of 163.72 acres of land; "Lots 3 and 4 and the So1/2 of the NW 1/4 of section 2 in township 13 So

 

of range 60 W of the 6th principle meridian, Colorado, containing 163 & 72/100th acres." From Pueblo, CO land office dated

13 November 1911. Land possibly located near Calhan, in El Paso Co., Colorado.

 

1912 Stated in pension papers that he has lived in Sioux City, Iowa (until 1888), Granby, MO (1889-1890), Seneca, MO

(1891-1895), Pueblo, CO (1895-1907), and Holtwold, possibly Calhan, El Paso, County, CO (1907-on ).

 

1913 Pension raised to $27.00 a month

 

1915 living at 725 Veta Ave. Pueblo, Colo

 

1918 Pension raised to $38.00

 

1918 @ time of death living at 2534 Court Pueblo, Colo

 

Daughter Martha (Embree) Hughes was informant on death certificate.

From Kathleen (Morrow) Dodson (10-2003); Joseph was of Welsh, English, and Dutch ancestry.

 

 

Joseph and Martha had the following children:

             86 F         i.  Elizabeth "Eliza" Ellen EMBREE 140  was born on 23 Dec 1861 in Seneca, Newton Co., Missouri. She died on 17 Nov 1940 in Melba, Canyon Co., Idaho. She was buried on 20 Nov 1940 in Roselawn Cem, Pueblo Co., Colorado.

 

Ancestral File Number: 1TB3-2SH

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11

Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/73

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

First and middle names possibly from maternal side of family since some of the siblings have names that

are connected to family.

 

 

Elizabeth married143,144  (1) William Newton CULBERTSON 141,142  son of William Peoples CULBERTSON and Sarah JEWELL on 2 Sep 1882 in Sioux City, Woodbury Co., Iowa. William was born on 2 Feb 1849 in Wayne Co., Ohio. He died on 21 Oct 1911 in Calhan, El Paso Co., Colorado. He was buried on 24 Oct 1911 in Roselawn Cemetery, 24-194-4, Pueblo Co., Colorado.

 

Ancestral File Number:  H5JJ-ST

Inscription on head stone: “Here rests a woodman of the world"

 

 

Elizabeth married (2) Harvey Broone DAVIS 145  after 1911. Harvey was born about 1862 in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee. He died in Feb 1944. He was buried in Roselawn Cem, Pueblo, Colorado.

 

ref: ltr 6/85 from Wendell Culbertson

 

             87 F         ii.  Josephine Bell EMBREE  was born on 28 Apr 1864 in Poweshiek Co., Iowa. She died on 4 May 1903 in Pueblo, Colorado. She was buried on 5 May 1903 in Mountain View Cemetery, lot 4-D-5, Pueblo, Colorado.

 

Ancestral File Number: 1TB3-2TP

 

Birth: Josephine's father was most likely in the field with the Union Army, as happened to many soldiers

over the history of civilization, during her birth.

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11

Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/73

 

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

Marriage info: marr license, her father had to sign an affidavit so that she could marry at 17 yrs old.

Obit: Pueblo Chieftain, Tuesday May 5, 1903, pg 8: SOMES- Monday May 4, 1903, at her residence at

1726 Lake St.(Pueblo)  Josephine Bell, wife of George F. Somes. Funeral will take place from the home

at 2 o'clock today. Internment at Mountain View Cemetery. Elsewhere in the paper on same page: All

Lady Maccabees are requested to be at their hall at one o'clock sharp to attend the funeral of Mrs.

Somes. /s/ Minerva Marvin, State Commander.

 

Cause of death listed as TB. Family oral tradition has that the Embree family had Indian blood as a result

of an incident in the Bell family from before the Cherokee people were moved from the east coast. This

may be a result of Rev. Samuel Bell's having worked as a missionary to the Cherokee Tribes, in

Tennessee, in the early 1800s.

 

 

Josephine married George Fredrick SOMES  son of Henry C. SOMES and Matilda C. MILLER on 23 Apr 1882 in Circuit Court, Floyd Twp, Woodbury Co., Iowa. George was born on 21 May 1859 in Amboy, Lee Co., Illinois. He died146,147,148  on 14 Oct 1925 in Aurora, Kane Co., Illinois. He was buried149  on 18 Oct 1925 in Homewood Mem. Gard., 1 -184-1E, Homewood, Cook Co., Illinois.

 

Cause of Death: cerebral hemorrhage

Ancestral File Number: 1TB3-3HS

George survived the Great Chicago Fire. He was a news boy selling papers when the fire broke out. He

and his brother Elmer spent 3 nights on the beaches of Lake Michigan before they could get home to

their family. After the death of his first wife, Josephine, George remarried for a short time to a woman

who wanted him to put his children into an orphanage. He refused to do that divorcing her instead. Later

he moved to the southern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and latter still to Aurora where he worked as a

watchman at Mooseheart Orphanage.  His last residence was 122 So. Lake St. Aurora, Kane Co., Illinois. 

He had resided there 7 months. Cause of death; cerebral hemorrhage, at his home. 

 

1880 U S Census: George SOMES, age 21, born Illinois, listed as living in Walnut Twp, Pottawannamie

Co., Iowa. He worked as a grain clerk living in hotel owned/run by Albert H. BROWN. Father's birth place

listed as New York, mother's as Illinois.

 

1885 Iowa State Census shows the family was living in Floyd Twp, Woodbury Co., Iowa.  Neighbors

were the Charles Hughes family, wife Fannie, daughter Jessie, and the William Culbertson family. All

families are related to the Somes family. Elsewhere in the county the Joseph W. Embree family, in-laws

to George Somes, lived as well. Eventually all of the families moved to Pueblo, Colorado in the mid-

1890s.

 

1895 Iowa State Census lived in Banner Twp, Woodbury Co., Iowa.  Lists children Charles age 12, Ethel

age 10, Roy age 8, Ralph age 5, Albert, and Alfred (twins) age 2, George age 0. POB George F; Illinois,

Josephine; Poweshiek Co, Iowa.  Occ: of George F.- farmer.

 

1897 Pueblo City Directory; lists work location as D&RG (Denver & Rio Grand) Freight, living at 902 E.

River St. Pueblo.

 

1898 Pueblo City Directory; living at 1011 Ash, Pueblo.

 

1900 census, Pueblo; living on River Street

Head: Somes, George F.-born May 1859;41;married 18yrs;born IL, father born unknown; mother born 

          MO; occupation teamster

Wife: Josephine-born Apr.1864;36;married 18yrs; 9 children born,8 living; born IA, father born OH, 

        mother born MO (unk deceased child's name/gender)

 

Son: Fred-born Feb.1883;17;born IA; clerk in coal office

Dau: Ethel-born Jan.1885;15;born IA

Son: Leroy-born June 1887;12;born IA

Son: Ralph-born Feb.1889;11;born IA

Son: Alfred-born Oct.1892;7;born IA

Son: Albert-born Oct.1892;7;born IA

Son: Georgie -born Sept.1894;5;born IA

Son: Dewey-born Mar.1898;2;born CO

 

1905 Pueblo City Directory; living at 901 W. 18th St. Pueblo.

 

1910 Pueblo-living at 729 9th Street

head Somes, George F. age 50, 2nd marriage, 1 year; born Unk, parents born unk., Occ: ice puller-ice

          house

wife  Sophronia-51;2nd marriage,1 year; 6 children born,4 living; born IL, parents born Unknown

stepson-Sleade,Tom-20;born CO; helper-round house

stepdaughter-Ruby-16;born CO

(Sophronia's first husband was Charles Sleade as found in the 1900 Pueblo census)

 

1916 Greenwood, Illinois. Unknown if married to Hilda yet. 

 

1925 Living at 122 So. Lake St. Aurora, Illinois at the time of his death. Living with Hilda. Most likely with

members of her family.

Obituary published 15 October 1925 in the Aurora Bedlon News, page 2.

 

** From the "Mooseheart Weekly" Mooseheart, Illinois of 21 November 1925 he may have been living

with relatives in Aurora at the time of his death. The relatives were most likely from Hilda's side of the

family. There were no known Somes relatives living in Aurora at that time.

Obit: 21 November 1925 "The Mooseheart Weekly", Mooseheart, Illinois, page 5.

"Night Watchman Passes Away"

 

Mooseheart students and employees were sad to learn of the death of one of our faithful workers Mr.

George F. Somes, who for the past few years had been one of the Night Watchmen on the Mooseheart

Grounds.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Somes lived and worked among us, enduring themselves to the children by their faithful

and untiring services, the former as one of the men who watch the grounds at night, and the wife as a

hall and cottage employee.

 

             88 F        iii.  Martha Fannie EMBREE  was born on 1 Jun 1866 in Iowa. She died in Pueblo, Colorado. She was buried150  in Roselawn Cemetery, lot 16, Blende, Pueblo Co., Colorado.

 

LDS Ancestral File Number: 1TB3-2VW

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11

Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/73

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

Martha was the informant on her father's death certificate, at the time she lived at 925 Summit in Pueblo,

Colo.

 

 

Martha married151  Charles P. HUGHES  about 1883. Charles was born in 1863 in Illinois. He died in Jul 1925. He was buried152  on 23 Jul 1925 in Roselawn Cemetery, lot 16-92-3, Pueblo, Colorado.

 

1910 census: El Paso Co., sup dist 3, ED 30, sheet 6B, 29 April 1910

HUGHES, Charles P., 43, farmer, b Illinois, fa b Wales, married 27 yrs

HUGHES, Martha F., 43, b Iowa, 3 child/2 living, parents b Illinois/Iowa

HUGHES, Frank L., 22, b Iowa, parents b Illinois/Iowa living next to Martha's parents.

 

             89 M       iv.  William Frank Lewis EMBREE  was born on 14 Apr 1868 in Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas. He died on 3 Jan 1938 in Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., Kansas.

 

Ancestral File Number:  CKCK-9K

 

U S Census 1870 Lawrence County, Missouri, Buck Prairie Township, Post Office: Mt. Vernon PO, 11

Jun 1870, pg. 10: 73/73

Embree, Joseph W., 31, m, w, carpenter, $/$300 OH

Martha A., 28, f, w, keeping house, MO

Eliza E., 8, f, w, MO

Josephine B., 6, f, w, IA  Martha F., 4, f, w, IA  William L., 2, m, w, KS

 

Ref: correspondence Marge Miller, 6/2001 William  was reportedly of English, and Welsh descent.  His

wife was reportedly1/2 Cherokee Indian.

Jan 18,1913 William was granted a land grant for 80 acres. Also some brothers homesteaded near

Calhan, El Paso County, Colorado.  They later moved to Pueblo, Colorado.

 

 

William married (1) Jemima Josephine BELL  daughter of William Martin BELL and Melinda Jane MCCLELLAN in Possibly Springfield, Missouri. Jemima was born94  on 17 Apr 1867 in McDonald Co, Missouri. She died on 3 May 1919 in Miami, Oklahoma.

 

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 467F-VJ

 

 

William married (2) Amanda .

             90 M       v.  Francis "Frank" Marion EMBREE  was born153  on 11 Apr 1871 in Seneca, Missouri. He died154  on 14 Oct 1943 in Pueblo, Colorado. He was buried in Mountain View Cem., 69-2-5, Pueblo, Colorado.

 

Ancestral File Number:  1TB3-2XB

On Sept 9, 1913 Frank was awarded a land-grant from the federal government for 80 acres near Calhan

in El Paso Co., Colorado.

 

 

Francis married Lola Bertha EHRHART  daughter of Thomas EHRHART. Lola was born155  on 6 Jul 1874 in Ashland, Ohio. She died156  on 2 Aug 1954 in Pueblo, Colorado. She was buried in Mountain View Cem., 69-2-6, Pueblo, Colorado.

             91 F        vi.  Luella "Lulu" Martha EMBREE 157,158  was born on 27 Mar 1874 in Iowa. She died on 11 Jul 1924 in Nampa, Canyon Co., Idaho.

 

AFN 1TB3-2ZJ

Possible married name is France, as a Luella France signed an affidavit on behalf of Martha in 1919.

 

 

Luella married Charles William FRANCE 159  in Nampa, Canyon Co., Idaho.

             92 F       vii.  Adelima "Dolly" Auretta EMBREE 160,161  was born on 21 Jul 1877 in Iowa. She died in Pueblo, Colorado. She was buried in Roselawn Cem., Pueblo, Colorado.

 

Also Known As: Della, ancestral File Number: 1TB3-30P.

 

 

Adelima married163  Frank LOEFFLER 162  in St. Anthony, Fremont Co., Idaho. Frank died in Nov 1949.

             93 F      viii.  Winnie Anna EMBREE 164  was born on 4 Apr 1880 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. She died on 21 Dec 1965 in Nampa, Canyon Co., Idaho. She was buried165  in Roselawn Cemetery,

 

Pueblo, Colorado.

 

Ancestral File Number:  1TB3-31W, birth ref: 1880 Iowa cens index

 

 

Winnie married (1) Jacob N. HUEHN 166  son of George D. HUEHN and Christina on 10 Sep 1901. Jacob was born on 21 Feb 1871 in Berlin, Canada. He died167  on 16 Nov 1910 in Pueblo, Colorado.

Winnie married (2) Arthur Layton HOOVER 168  on 29 Jan 1916 in Pueblo, Colorado. Arthur was born on 24 Apr 1877 in Quasqueton, Iowa. He died on 27 Nov 1956 in Nampa, Canyon Co., Idaho.

 

1918 Arthur and Winnie moved from Pueblo, Colorado to Los Angeles, California. After four years in

California they then moved to Nampa, Idaho.

 

 

    41. Thomas H. BELL 169  (Samuel, James, Samuel) was born170  in Aug 1848 in Newton Co., Missouri.

 

U S Census 1850 Newton County, Missouri, Lost Creek Township, 15 Oct 1850, pg. 363/725: 560/560

Samuel Bell, 41, male, Farmer, TN (b 1809)_Mary, 41, f, Va(?)_Mary, 16, f, TN  James, 18, m, Farmer, TN  Nancy, 14, f,

TN Abner, 13, m, TN  Susanah, 9, f, MO  Martha Ann, 7, f, MO_*Thomas, 2, m, MO (middle init may be L)

 

Thomas married (1) Elza NOHERS  on 11 Sep 1861. Elza died before 1876.

 

They had the following children:

             94 F         i.  Margaret E. BELL .

             95 M        ii.  James B. BELL .

 

Thomas married (2) Ann WILSON  on 27 Aug 1876.

 

    44. Nancy Elizabeth RUSSELL  (Mary "Polly" BELL, James, Samuel) was born in 1835 in Tennessee. She died in 1901 in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma.

Nancy married Asher Fly SOOTER  on 26 Aug 1852 in Barry Co., MO. Asher was born on 15 Jun 1833 in Tennessee.

 

They had the following children:

             96 M        i.  Edward Greenberry SOOTER  was born on 22 Aug 1853.

             97 F         ii.  Martha Emeline SOOTER  was born on 30 Apr 1855.

             98 M       iii.  Calvin Asher SOOTER  was born about 1857.

             99 M       iv.  James SOOTER  was born about 1858.

           100           v.  Frances E. SOOTER  was born on 9 Aug 1859.

           101 F        vi.  Mary Melvina SOOTER  was born on 16 Oct 1863.

           102 M      vii.  Asher Greenberry SOOTER  was born on 8 Oct 1865.

           103 F      viii.  Easter Melissa SOOTER  was born on 9 Sep 1867.

           104 F        ix.  Sarah Alabama SOOTER  was born on 6 Dec 1868.

           105 M       x.  Leonard SOOTER  was born about 1870.

           106 F        xi.  Tabitha Jane SOOTER  was born on 19 Jan 1878.

 

    45. Margaret Elizabeth RUSSELL  (Mary "Polly" BELL, James, Samuel) was born on 7 Apr 1838 in Bedford

Co., Tennessee. She died on 15 Jun 1925 in Anderson, McDonald Co., Missouri. She was buried in New Bethel Cemetery, McDonald Co., Missouri.

Margaret married (1) William Leonard SOOTER Sr.  on 1 Sep 1854 in Barry Co., MO. William was born on 7 Jul 1835 in Arkansas. He died on 9 Nov 1863 in Gravette, Benton Co., Arkansas. He was buried in Bethel Cem, Gravette, Benton Co., Arkansas.

 

KIA in Civil War

 

 

William and Margaret had the following children:

           107 M        i.  James Alexander SOOTER  was born on 28 Aug 1854 in Pea Ridge, Benton Co., Arkansas.

           108 F         ii.  Martha Ann SOOTER .

           109 F        iii.  SOOTER .

           110 F        iv.  Nancy SOOTER .

           111 M       v.  William Leonard SOOTER , Jr.  was born on 15 Jun 1864 in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.

 

Margaret married (2) David Olney SHERWOOD  on 1 May 1873.

 

They had the following children:

           112 M       vi.  Elija "Lige" SHERWOOD .

           113 M      vii.  Elisha SHERWOOD .

           114 M     viii.  Charles "Charlie" SHERWOOD .

           115 F        ix.  Minnie SHERWOOD .

 

    50. Mary Jane RUSSELL  (Mary "Polly" BELL, James, Samuel) was born in Mar 1852 in Missouri. She died in Gravette, Benton Co., Arkansas.

Mary married Fountain Harrison GARMAN  on 11 Feb 1873 in Benton Co., AR.

 

Please verify / prove information and notify contributor of corrections / errors.

Information amassed from various sources - family records, official publications &amp;

documents, gedcom files from relatives, etc.

 

 

Fountain and Mary had the following children:

           116 M        i.  William Freeman GARMAN  was born on 31 Oct 1874 in Gravette, Benton Co., Arkansas.

           117 F         ii.  Martha L. GARMAN  was born on 26 May 1875.

           118 M       iii.  Lee Andrew GARMAN  was born on 12 Dec 1877 in Gravette, Benton Co., Arkansas.

           119 M       iv.  Charles GARMAN  was born in 1879.

           120 M       v.  Oscar Dudley GARMAN .

           121 M       vi.  Grover Cleveland GARMAN  was born on 2 Oct 1889.

           122 F       vii.  Sarah GARMAN .

           123 M     viii.  Claude GARMAN .

 

    52. James Thomas BELL 171  (Abraham Lewis, James, Samuel) was born on 25 Sep 1840 in Readyville, Cannon Co., Tennessee.

 

James married Roxanne A. YOUNG 172  daughter of Alexander YOUNG and Martha Nancy MULLENS on 24 Nov 1858 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. Roxanne was born on 27 Nov 1834 in Tennessee. She died on 12 Mar 1917 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tennessee.

 

Children

Mary Jane Bell b: 1860 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

Nancy A. Bell b: 1862 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

Susan C. Bell b: 1863

Abraham Lewis Bell b: 22 MAR 1865 in Cannon County, Tennessee

Lenah Elizabeth Bell b: 18 MAY 1867 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

Alexander Bell b: 23 DEC 1868 in Cannon County, Tennessee

Tennessee Azalene Bell b: 14 MAY 1870 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

John T. Bell b: 1873 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

Jenetta Bell b: 1875 in Cannon CO. Tennessee

James Hearn Bell b: 10 NOV 1877 in Cannon County, Tennessee

 

 

James and Roxanne had the following children:

           124 M        i.  Abraham Lewis BELL II  was born on 22 Mar 1865 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. He died on 12 Dec 1946 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

 

U S Census, 1900: 6th Dist. Rutherford Co., Tennessee, pg 58

U S Census, 1910: 6th Dist Rutherford Co., Tennessee, pg 66B

 

 

Abraham married Sarah Ann WOODS 173  on 19 Feb 1882 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. Sarah was born on 3 Dec 1865 in Tennessee.

 

    54. Uriah Abraham BELL  (Abraham Lewis, James, Samuel) was born on 15 Oct 1848 in Newton Co., Missouri. He died on 8 Mar 1923 in Arkansas.

Uriah married Nancy Eliza C. PEARSON  on 24 Dec 1868 in Arkansas. Nancy was born on 13 May 1851 in Ebenezar, Missouri.

 

They had the following children:

           125 M        i.  Benjamin  Franklin BELL  was born on 7 Nov 1892 in Wiseman, Arkansas. He died on 8 Dec 1955 in Arkansas.

Benjamin married Laura E. MONTGOMERY  on 3 Apr 1911 in Arkansas. Laura was born on 7 Jul 1894 in Arkansas. She died in 1916 in Wiseman, Arkansas.

 

 

 

Appendix A  -  Sources

 

 

  1. Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  2. IGI North America. Places birth year as about 1747, death before 1777.

  3. Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. IGI places death as before 1777. Probate was handled in 1780.

  4. WWW.ANCESTRY.COM. File shows date of death as 21 March 1778 w/o location or state.

  5. IGI North America.

  6. Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  7. IGI North America.

  8. WWW.ANCESTRY.COM. File shows alternate place of death - Tennessee.

  9. Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  10.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Places birth year abt 1772 in Washington Co., Virginia.

  11.  IGI North America. Shows birth year about 1774 in Frederick Co., Virginia.

  12.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  13.  Ancestral File. husband to Hannah Bell.

  14.  Pedigree Resource File.

  15.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  16.  IGI North America. Places birth year as 1776 in Washington Co., Virginia.

  17.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  18.  Ancestral File.

  19.  WWW.ANCESTRY.COM.

  20.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  21.  IGI North America.

  22.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  23.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  24.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  25.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  26.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  27.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  28.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  29.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Tom has death in Wilson Co., Tennessee.

  30.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  31.  Pedigree Resource File.

  32.  Headstone-Martha (Burge) Bell. Newton, Missouri. Date of birth may be June 16, 1797 according to headstone.

  33.  Headstone-Martha (Burge) Bell.

  34.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  35.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  36.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  37.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  38.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  39.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  40.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  41.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  42.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  43.  Death Certificate. Death Certificate of Martha Anna (Bell) Embree, 1922, states that unnamed father and mother born in Tennessee.

  44.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  45.  Correspondence-Arlene K. (Mitchell) Storie. Deceased March 2004.From notes in family papers. Person not mentioned by name only that he had been a circuit riding preacher to the Indians of Tennessee.

  46.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  47.  IGI North America.

  48.  Death Certificate. Death certificate of Martha Anna Bell Embree stated Martha's mother and father both were born in Tennessee.

  49.  IGI North America. Birth about 1809 Virginia or 1811 Tennessee, marriage to Samuel Bell on 1 July 1828 in Tennessee.

  50.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree, US Nat'l Archives ."Joseph; Application for disability pension. Joseph stated that the marriage records were destroyed in Newton, Missouri during the Civil War. Martha; Application for widows pension included parents names and her home at time of marriage to Joseph. “Hand written answers to interrogatory questions on application form. Martha indicated her mother, Mary M. Bell, died when she was about 10 years old. She then moved in with a sister, living in Newton Co., MO until she married Joseph.

  51.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name, place of birth.

  52.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name/location of birth.

  53.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name only.

  54.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  55.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  56.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name.

  57.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided names only.

  58.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  59.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  60.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  61.  Ancestral File. Submission by Darrell C. Thurman shows name as Martha Polly Bell.

  62.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. birth and death info.

  63.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.1st wife of Abraham L. Bell.

  64.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  65.  Ancestral File. Second wife of Abraham's.

  66.  WWW.ANCESTRY.COM.

  67.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  68.  Correspondence-Jessie Embree.

  69.  Correspondence-Wm Leon Anderson.

  70.  Headstone-Rev. James Bell. Newton, Missouri.

  71.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Places death after 1880 Census; living Granby Twp, Newton County, Missouri pg 534B. In household of William T. Lloyd.

  72.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  73.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  74.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  75.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  76.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  77.  Correspondence-Carolee (Bell) Paolino. Stated that William Bell and Malinda McClelland were both born in Tennessee.

  78.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  79.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  80.  Correspondence-Carolee (Bell) Paolino.

  81.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  82.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  83.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  84.  Correspondence-Carolee (Bell) Paolino. From photograph containing Nancy (Bell) Brightman, Jemima J. (Bell) Embree, Elisha Mack Bell, Charles F. Bell, Sterling Bell, Henry Bell, Mary (  ) Collins, and some children.

  85.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  86.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  87.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Her sister, name unknown, married James Bell.

  88.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  89.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  90.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  91.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Possibly born in McDonald Co., Missouri.

  92.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  93.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  94.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Provided names/dates of fathers family.

  95.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  96.  WWW.ANCESTRY.COM.  Date and place of death.

  97.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  98.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  99.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  100.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name/location of birth.

  101.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell. Fname of  Sarah, DoB/place of Rutherford Co., Tennessee from Matthew's file.

  102.  Correspondence-William M. Wyatt. DoD and info about husband and children.

  103.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  104.  Correspondence-William M. Wyatt.

  105.  Newton County Historical Society .

  106.  Census 1870-US, 29-30.

  107.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  108.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  109.  Census 1850-US.Missing from family in 1860 census.

  110.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  111.  Census 1860-US.Missing from family in census rolls.

  112.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  113.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  114.  Census 1860-US.Age 1 year.

  115.  Correspondence-William M. Wyatt.

  116.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  117.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name/place of birth.

  118.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  119.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  120.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  121.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  122.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  123.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  124.  Correspondence-Marge (Embree) Miller. Marge provided name.

  125.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  126.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  127.  Death Certificate.

  128.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree. Application indicates date of wife's birth and later death including locations.

  129.  Death Certificate, State of Idaho # 39351, 15 Jul 1922.Certificate does not provide names of parents. Informant Della Leffler (daughter).

  130.  Obituary , Pueblo Chieftain, 8 Jun 1922.Death in Idaho, body being returned to Pueblo accompanied by daughter.

  131.  Death Certificate. Death certificate stated burial was on June 9, 1922. Obituary stated June 10, 1922.

  132.  Correspondence-Douglas Storie. Personal knowledge. Personal knowledge.

  133.  Census 1880-US, FHL film: 1254361, NA film T9-0361.Occupation: Carpenter.

  134.  Civil War Roster-Iowa. Embree, Joseph W. aged 26 Residence Mahaska County (Iowa), born Ohio, Enlisted Jan 6, 1864, Mustered in Feb 11, 1864. Mustered out Aug 2, 1865, Ft. Gibson, Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma).

  135.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree.

  136.  Headstone-Joseph W. Embree & Martha A. (Bell) Embree. Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo. Years of life only depicted.

  137.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree.  Another page of file states place of birth to be Washington Co., Ohio.

  138.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree. Application for pension based on Union Civil War service.

  139.  Cemetery Records. Provided date of burial.

  140.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints"  (1997), vol 4, pg 160.Manuscript places death as occurring in Pueblo, Colorado.

  141.  Ancestral File.

  142.  Correspondence-Kathleen (Morrow) Dodson. Document titled, "Culbertson Family Tree", compiled from sources of C. Wendell Culbertson, "Descendants of Alexander Culbertson" (unk date), and by Margaret R. Fish, "Alexander Culbertson, Jr." (1992).

  143.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" , vol 4, pg 160.

  144.  Correspondence-Kathleen (Morrow) Dodson.

  145.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" , vol 4, pg 160.Does not specify where he died. It may be assumed Pueblo, Colorado.

  146.  Death Certificate, Kane Co., Illinois 404-10/15/1925, 15 Oct 1925.Worked @ Mooseheart as a night watchman. Cause Cerebral Hemorrhage.

  147.  Obituary , Aurora News, pg 2 , 15 Oct 1925.Listed DoB as May 1, 1859 in Amboy, Illinois.

  148.  Obituary , The Mooseheart Weekly, pg 5, 21 Nov 1925.Article talked about George's service to the children and his fellow man as a watchman on the grounds of Mooseheart, Illinois near Aurora.

  149.  Cemetery Records. Plot owned by Ansel and Marie Cottrell. A woman named Mathilda Johnson (1859-1943) is buried in same family plot. Possibly his 3rd wife. As a child I remember visiting the Cottrells and they were very nice. I never knew of any family relationship though.

  150.  Headstone. Roselawn Cemetery. Provides years of life only. Buried alongside husband, daughter Jessie, and her two husbands.

  151.  Joseph W. Embree, Civil War Pension File - Joseph W. Embree. Charles P. Hughes stated on affidavit to pension board that he had known Martha A. Embree since about 1883.

  152.  Headstone. Roselawn Cemetery. Provided only years of life. Buried along with wife, daughter Jessie, and her two husbands.

  153.  Census 1920-US.1920 census indicates age as 48 born in Missouri. He is shown as owning his own home.

  154.  Obituary , Pueblo Chieftain, 15 Oct 1943.

  155.  Census 1920-US.46 years old in the 1920 Census indicates born in Ohio.

  156.  Obituary , Pueblo Chieftain, 3 Aug 1954.

  157.  Census 1880-US.Name shown; Lulu.

  158.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" , vol 4, pg 161.

  159.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" .

  160.  Census 1880-US.Name shown; Dolly.

  161.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" .

  162.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" .

  163.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" .

  164.  Census 1880-US.no first name shown.

  165.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" , Vol 4, pg 161.

  166.  Census 1881-Canada, FHLF 1375901.Age 10. Living at Wellesley, Waterloo North, Ontario, Canada. Dist 162, sub B, Div 1, pg 45, house 212.

  167.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" , vol 4, pg 161.

  168.  Robert Ambler, "Embree Footprints" .

  169.  IGI North America, Film #: 0884940, Batch #: F820855, Sheet #: 015, Source Call #: 0884940, Printout Call #: N.

  170.  Census 1850-US, Oct 1850.Youngest child, 2 years old, at time of census.

  171.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  172.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.

  173.  Correspondence-Thomas J. Bell.