BIO:  Joseph H. Bell, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hopewell Township, Pg 111

JOSEPH H. BELL is a son of David and Hannah (Norris) Bell, of York County.  He 
was born in January, 1817, and reared in Hopewell Township, and has been engaged 
in farming, carpentering and also butchering.  In 1843 he was married to Sarah J. 
Thrue, who died on June 7, 1876.  They had eleven children.  In 1881 he married 
Lizzie (Walter) Myer, of Hopewell Township.  They have two children.  Mr. Bell is 
a member of the Protestant Methodist Church.