Westmoreland County PA Archives Bibles  ..... BELL-BENNETT Bibles: Selected entries from the Journals of Josiah V Thompson
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    At Mrs Nancy Adaline Goslin on Market St West Side Belle Vernon Pa 12:05 PM
  Friday, Oct 29, 1920.
            Mrs Goslin has brought me out the family Bible of her father David P.
  Bell which she got in the bottom compartment, level with the floor of the
  cupboard to the left of the fireplace in the front room of her house which is
  an old two story one with a basement cellar back level with the ground which
  slopes back.  This bible is dated 1850 New York, American Bible Society.

                            Marriages
    David Bell was married to Sarah Jane Bennett Nov 13th AD 1849.
    Florence Bell was married to William Scholl March the 10th, 1870.
    Sarah S. Bell was married to Bert McLain Sept 24th, 1874.
    Maggie Bell was married to Caleb Porter Feby 5th, 1880.
    Idalia Bell was married to James Porter May 15th? 1887.

                            Births
    David Bell was born July 27, AD 1826.
    Sarah Jane Bell was born June 24, AD 1832.
    1. Mary Florence Bell was born Sept 8, AD 1850.
    2. Sarah Samantha Bell was born May 17, AD 1852.
    3. Margaret Jane Bell was born Feby 28, AD 1854.
    4. Almira A. Bell was born Aug 13? AD 1856.
    5. Nancy Adaline Bell was born Aug 25, AD 1858.
    6. Samuel Sylvester Bell was born Nov 19, AD 1860.

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    7. Charlotta Ella Bell was born March 12, AD 1863.
    8. Frances Idalia Bell was born Aug 23, AD 1865.
    9. Emma H. Bell was born March 18, AD 1868.
    10. Lulu Maud Bell was born Sept 25, 1870.
    11. Cora Ethel Bell was born Nov 29, AD 1872.
    12. David Bell was born Sept 25, AD 1875.
                            Deaths
    Emma Hunter Bell died June 14, 1870 Aged 2 yrs 3 mos 27 days
    Maggie Porter died Dec 25, 1880 aged 26 yrs 9 mos 27 daus 6 o'clock in the
  evening.
    Miss Almira A. Bell died Sept 6, 1882 Aged 26 yrs & 24 days 7:30 AM
    Will B. Bell died Jany 27, 1883 aged 26 yrs & 20 days, son of John Bell 2:30
  PM
    Charlotte Ella Bell died Nov 27, 1884 aged 21 yrs 8 mos 15 days 9:30 AM

    March 8th 1875 23 inches of snow on March 8th. On the four pages of two old
  family record leaves from an old Bennett Bible which were loose in a Bible
  which Mrs Goslin says her Aunt Polly Darr got & that had the same record as
  appears on these leaves, which her mother got.

                            Births
    Gershom Bennett was born September 7th, 1762.
    Fanny Bishop was born February 29, 1774.
    David Bennett was born October 26, 1801.
    Sarah Hough was born February 9, 1805.
    1. Polly Bennett was born November 15, 1824.
    2. Fanny Ann Bennett was born March 11, 1827.
    3. Eleanor Bennett was born July 6, 1829.
    4. Sarah Jane Bennett was born June 24, 1832.
    5. Charlotty Bennett was born Aug 27, 1834.
    6. David Bishop Bennett was born Feby 16, 1837.
    7. Joseph H. Bennett was born March 3, 1842.

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                            Marriages
    Gershom Bennett was married to Fanny Bishop Oct 24, 1794.
    David Bennett was married to Sarah Hough Feby 12, 1824.
    Frances Ann Bennett was married to William Bell Sept 3, 1850.
    Elinor Bennett was married to Jacob Rodes May 11, 1852.
    Polly H. Bennett was married to Joseph Darr Feby AD 1847.
    Sarah Jane Bennett was married to David Bell Nov 13, 1849.

                            Deaths
    Fanny Bennett died Jany 27, 1814 in her 40th year.
    Gershom Bennett died Jany 27, 1828 in his 66th year.
    George Bennett died Oct 2, 1829 in his 32d year.
    Easther Blackburn died Nov 14, 1831 in her 32d year.
    Anny Smith died Dec 10, 1844
    David Bishop Bennett died Aug 16, 1839 aged 2 yrs 6 mos.
    Ellenor Bennet died Dec 27, 1851 in 81st yr of his [sic] age.
    Will L. Scholl & Mrs Goslin says this was the second wife of Gershom Bennett
  who survived him many years.

    In the family Bible of Mrs Goslin's husband is his record & that of his first
  wife & the births of her eight children 7 girls & 1 boy from 1864 to 1881. also
  gives:
    John W. Goslin was born at Fayette City Pa June 15, 1838 married to his first
  wife, Mary A. Nov 15, 1863 & on Nov 19, 1887 he married Nancy Adaline Bell who
  was born Aug 25, 1858 in Sewickly Tp.  Her children were.
    1. Ethel M. Goslin was born at Belle Vernon on May 22, 1889.
    2. John Nelson Goslin was born at Belle Vernon on Sept 23, 1891 & died
  Feby    19, 1892.
    John W. Goslin died May 17, 1905 in this house & was buried in the
  Brownsville Pa Cemetery.

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