OBIT: Roy E. BELL, 1918, of interest in Blair County, PA

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BELL.

  Word was received by Mrs. M. C. Pruyn of Hollidaysburg on Thursday 
afternoon that her brother, Roy E. Bell, had paid the supreme sacrifice 
on Oct. 12, having been killed in France on that date.  The word of his 
death came a few hours after receiving word from another brother, 
Harold, also in France, that he had been wounded in action on Oct. 5, 
and was recovering in a base hospital.  Roy Bell was a member of 
company G, 107th infantry of the Twenty-seventh division and had been 
doing duty with the British forces.  He was aged 22 and enlisted at 
Oneonta, N.Y., about the same time his brother enlisted.  According to 
the letter received from Harold, he had been wounded in the right arm 
by machine gun bullets and was getting along well and wishing to get 
back at the Boches soon.  The deceased soldier boy is survived by his 
father residing at Oneonta, his sister in Hollidaysburg, and the 
soldier brother in France.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, November 30, 1918

1920 Hollidaysburg, Blair County census -
Merton C. Pruyn, 25  
Pauline W. Pruyn, 23  
Gertrude M. Pruyn, 3 6/12  
Clair L. Pruyn, 1 2/12