Echo of the Past is a genealogical history of the Bell family including connecting families which began with Sir Robert Bell of England. The book is a riveting account of the descendants and the Bell family that established itself in New World America. The book tells stories of many generations that endured suffering, adventure, and joy. The book accurately documents this family tree up to and including the 21st century. The family history transports the reader through the earliest settlement in Virginia to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. Some of the surnames mentioned in this book are Bell, Beaupre, Osborne, Peyton, Bidwell, Elfreth, Smith, Neale, Bolling, Brockman, Collins, Bledsoe, Woolfolk, Holt, Carter, Jackson, Carter, and Johnson just to name a few. Follow the Bell family as its legacy unfolds the birth of a nation.