OBIT: William M. BELL, 1898, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM M. BELL.

  On Saturday last Mr. William M. Bell, of Bellwood, died at the home of his 
daughter in Harrisburg.  He had been in ill health for several months, 
suffering at time excruciating pain, and death was to him a deliverance from 
great physical misery.
  Mr. Bell was the oldest child of Samuel and Margaret Morrison Bell and was 
born at Vineyard Mills, in Mifflin county, September 11, 1828.  He had 
attained to nearly the three score years and ten, the allotted life of man.  
He was the last survivor of his father's family.
  In 1853 he was married to Miss Rebecca Smelker, with whom he lived in the 
tenderest and most pleasant relations for more than forty years.  One son, 
Thomas, of the car record office, Philadelphia, and five daughters, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Moore and Mrs. Alice Meredith, of Bellwood; Mrs. Nellie Charles 
and Miss Sib, of Harrisburg, and Mrs. Frances Bechtel, of Altoona, survive 
him.  His wife preceded him to the grave only by a few months.
  Mr. Bell possessed many kindly qualities, which endeared him to those who 
knew him most intimately.  Being rather reticent in his manner, he was slow 
to form acquaintances, but he easily retained those who secured his 
confidences.  The early part of his life was spent on a farm.  In 1870 he 
removed to Altoona, where he remained about seven years.  Since that time he 
has been a resident of Bellwood.  His funeral will take place this afternoon 
and the interment will be in Logan Valley cemetery, where so many of his 
friends are buried.

Altoona Tribune?, August 8, 1898