Bible: F. C. Bell and Orel Bell Bibles: Clearfield Co 

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Copied from the F. C. Bell family bible record.  Published by John Edwin
Potter, 617 Samson St. Philadelphia, PA.  Date 1865.

F. C. Bell, (of Clearfield County PA) born March 2, 1829 married May 16, 1861
Matilda (Hagarty) Bell, (of Clearfield County PA) born Dec. 12, 1836

DEATHS

        F. C. Bell      May 10, 1907
        Matilda H.      June 26, 1918
CHILDREN

        Singleton       born    Feb.  12, 1862          died Oct. 4, 1930
        Orel              "     Oct.   31, 1868
        Vern              "     June  11, 1872

        Singleton Bell, born Feb. 12, 1862, died Oct.4, 1930, married Nov. 13, 1889
        Katherine McCullough, born April 20, 1870, died Aug. 21, 1923.

CHILDREN

                Julia Matilda Bell born Jan. 10, 1893, married Oct. 27, 1919 to
                Robert James Alderdice, born June 18, 1872.

                Gertrude McCullough Bell, born Oct. 25, 1895 married May 29, 1926 to
                Frederick Paul Merrick, born Jan. 30, 1895.
                        Frederick Paul Merrick Jr. b: Jan. 5, 1934.

                Ferdinand Cortez Bell born Mar. 2, 1898 married June 24, 1921 to
                Emily Alexander Gaulin, born Oct. 22, 1899.
                        Julia Ann Bell, born June 2, 1922, died June 3, 1922.
                        Ferdinand Cortez Bell Jr., born Apr. 29, 1923 married July 3, 1948 to
                                Elizabeth Beyer Brown, born Apr. 15, 1926.
                        Richard Alexander Bell, born May 13, 1928 married Sept.6, 1950 by
                                Rev. T. J. Derlett (name of wife not listed)
                        Thomas Gaulin Bell, born July 15, 1931.

        Vern Bell, born June 11, 1872, Pike Township, clearfield County, PA  married
        Mollie Arnold, born Oct. 13, 1880 Knox Township, died August 11, 1949 at
DuBois, PA.

CHILDREN

                Matilda Eliza born July 17, 1899.

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Bible of Orel Bell and Erie Hoover Bell, now owned by Lillian Bell of
Clearfield, PA.  Bible published 1881 by National Library Assoc. of Chicago,
ILL.

This is to certify that Orel Bell of Kerrmoor, PA  and Erie Hoover of Bells
Landing, PA  were united by me in the Bonds of Holy Matrimony at Bells
Landing on the 4th day of May in the year of our Lord 1890 in the presence of
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Hoover - signed G. W. Bell, J. P. Bells Landing, PA.

Orel Bell born Oct. 31, 1868 at Kerrmoor, PA, died Dec.3, 1943 at New
Millport, married May 4,1890 to Erie Hoover, born Aug. 20, 1873 at
Clearfield, PA, died Jan. 30, 1947 at New Millport, PA.

CHILDREN              BORN        MARRIED     DIED       MARRIED       BORN

Cortez Bell         7/27/1891    6/25/1913               Mary Norris   9/1/1893

Eldon Bell          1/6/1894     3/31/1923    5/3/1950   Erma Norris   6/12/1901

Alice Miriam Bell -3/17/1900     11/8/1924    3/31/1944  Jos. C. Gill  1/3/1881

Jerrie May Bell    11/8/1904

Charles McMurray Bell 1/24/1907  11/26/1938               Golda Dunlap  6/8/1911

Lillian Lorraine Bell 11/11/1909

Family of Eldon Bell, born Jan. 6, 1894 at Kerrmoor, married Erma Hoover born
June 12, 1901 in New Millport, PA.

CHILDREN                        BORN

Gertrude Marion Bell            8/27/1925
Vera May Bell                   2/23/1927
Verna Marie Bell                9/27/1929
Jessie Lorraine Bell            4/13/1934  -- All born in New Millport, PA.

Family of Cortez Bell, born July 27, 1891 at Bells Landing PA, married to
Mary Norris born Sept. 1, 1893 at New Millport, PA.

CHILDREN        All born at New Millport, PA.

Norris Cortez Bell, born July 2, 1913 married Nov. 3, 1939 to Zella Douglas
born Sept. 6, 1918 had one daughter Sandra Lee Bell, born Apr. 5, 1943 in
Clearfield Hospital, Clearfield, PA.

Alice Jean Bell, born Sept. 22, 1919, died Feb. 15, 1920.

Eleaor Nora Bell, born July 12, 1923, married July 12, 1941 to Carl Albert
Newphor, born Feb. 7, 1920.

They had:  Dennis Carl Newphor, born Mar. 22, 1943 in Ridgway Hospital,
Ridgway, PA.

Family of Alice Bell, born March 17, 1900 at Kerrmoor, PA  married to
Joseph Clarence Gill, born Jan. 3, 1891 at Coalport, PA.

CHILDREN

Joseph Clarence Gill Jr., born Mar 8, 1931 at DuBois, PA.

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