Westmoreland County PA Archives Bibles ..... HUNTER & BELL Bibles: Selected entries from the Journals of Josiah V Thompson ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty ************************************************ JVT Volume 4 Page 1 Mrs S. Florence Hunter's, widow of Archibald Boyd Hunter. David Hunter's Bible (this was his old home) printed at Phila, Pa in 1857 by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Marriages David Hunter & Margaret A. Boyd Mch 18, 1848. A.B. Hunter & Sarah Florence Bell Sept 15, 1874. Margaret Hunter & Thomas Hanna Feby 8, 1872. Lucetta Hunter & J.F. Hough Feby 4, 1880. (He is dead & she lives in Detroit. He is buried there. He was a son of Paul Hough, but not of the Paul that married Margaret Cook. Mrs W.F. Null living in Underwood, a suburb of Greensburgh, Pa is a daughter of William Bell, who was a son of Walter & Polly Bell. Her sister, Etta Bell, lives with them & they probably have their father's Bible, so Mrs S. Florence Hunter, their sister says. Her husband was Archibald B. Hunter. Mrs Mary Wachob at West Newton, Pa is the only living child of Paul & Margaret Cook Hough, so Mrs Hunter says. Marriages Continued Emma F. Hunter & John C. Bell, Oct 21, 1880. (She is dead. He is a brother of Mrs Hunter.) Joseph Oliver Hunter born Nov 9, 1891 Births William Hunter Feby 13, 1799. David Hunter Nov 25, 1806. V4 Page 2 Margaret A. Hunter Mch 1821. (William owned this farm, was a bachelor & David, his brother, inherited it from him & moved in from the adjoining farm which he owned.) Births C'td Archibald Boyd Hunter born Dec 17, 1848. Mary Jane Hunter born Nov 7, 1850. Lucetta Hunter born July 7, 1853. Margaret Hunter born July 7, 1853. William Hunter born Feby 16, 1857. Josiah Hunter born April 21, 1858. Emma Florence Hunter born Apr 21, 1858. (Mrs Margaret A. Hunter, the mother of above 7 children, two sets of twins, was a daughter of Archibald Boyd & had also a brother, Archibald Boyd who was father of John C. Boyd, dairyman living on the pike adjoining Frank A. Gaut. Deaths William Hunter (a child & son) Died Sept 9, 1857. Josiah Hunter Died Sept 7, 1858. Margaret A. Hunter (mother) died Sept 17, 1874. Emma F. Bell died June 21, 1881. David Hunter died May 31, 1892. Archibald Boyd Hunter died May 13, 1904. William Hunter (bro of David) died Apr 20, 1885 being 86 yrs 2 mos & 2 days old. (Mrs S. Florence Hunter's P.O. address is West Newton, Pa RFD No 1.) Family Bible of A.B. Hunter Published in Phila, Pa in 1880 by A.J. Holman & Co. Archibald Boyd Hunter was born Dec 17, 1848. Sarah Florence Bell Hunter was born Oct 2, 1851. To them the following children were born: V4 Page 3 David Hunter born Feby 11, 1875. Anna Cora Hunter born Dec 27, 1876. William Hunter born June 5, 1879. Bennett Blaine Hunter born Aug 14, 1881. Emma Florence Hunter born Dec 24, 1883. Archibald Boyd Hunter born Oct 16, 1886. Mary Frances Hunter born Jany 24, 1889. (Her great grandmother, Polly Bell died the month before as Cora spoke up & said viz Dec 26, 1888 aged 96 yrs.) Deaths William Hunter died Jany 16, 1903 aged 23 yrs 7 mos & 11 days. Archibald Boyd Hunter died May 11, 1904. On a slip of note size scratch paper which Mrs Hunter allowed me to bring home to copy & which I am returning to her by tomorrow's mail with two typewritten copies was the following record from the Bible, she said of her father William Bell Family Record William Bell was born Jany 12, 1817. Fanny A. Bennett was born March 11, 1827. William Bell & Fanny Bennett were married Sept 3, 1850. Births Florence Bell was born Oct 2, 1851. Polly Bell was born Apr 19, 1853. Charlotta Bell was born Nov 19, 1854. John Bell was born Oct 22, 1856. Bennett Bell was born March 4, 1858. Walter Bell was born Oct 21, 1859. Joseph Bell was born Feby 1, 1862. H.L. Bell was born Oct 4, 1864. V4 Page 4 Anna Cora Bell was born Aug 22, 1866. Alma Etta Bell was born Jany 27, 1868. Albert M. Bell was born Jany 4, 1871. Marriages Florence Bell was married to Arch B. Hunter. Charlotta Bell was married to Millard F. Null. John Bell was married to Emma Hunter. Walter Bell was married to Vina Hough Nov 1800 [sic]. Bennett Bell was married to Laura E. Reynolds Nov 22, 1885. Harry L. Bell was married to Sadie Wineman October 1888. Deaths William Bell died Dec 24, 1888. Fanny A. Bell died Nov 19, 1881. Joseph Bell died April 27, 1868. Anna Cora Bell died Aug 22, 1868. on a separate slip of paper was written: Mrs Polly Bell, born Aug 6, 1792, died December 26, 1888 aged 96 years 4 mos & 20 days. A newspaper clipping Mrs Hunter gave me. Death of Ex Sheriff Bell Died at his home in South Huntingdon Tp of pneumonia, Wm Bell aged 69 years. States he was elected Sheriff of Westmoreland Co in 1862 & served his term with credit. On another slip of obituaries she gave me, it was announced: Died on Tuesday Evening 12th inst at the residence of her son, near Waltz Mill in Sewickly Tp, Westnd Co, Mrs Jane Hunter, widow of Wm Hunter Esq, late of South Huntingdon Tp decd in the 79th yr of her age. The deceased was born in Chester Co Pa & was brought with a younger sister to this, then Bedford Co, in the year 1770 by their father & mother Andrew & Margaret ----------