The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Author: Raymond Martin Bell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1941
Genre: Dumfriesshire (Scotland)
ISBN:

Chiefly ancestors and some of their descendants of John Henderson Bell. He was born November 13, 1791 in Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to William and Margaret McCartney Bell " ... on land on which his grandfather, George Bell, had settled in 1773" (Page 3). John Bell's great grandfather William Bell Sr. (died 1783) and his wife Jane (Jean) Lea were Scot-Irish who came from Ireland to America sometime before 1732 settling in Pennsylvania. John married Mary Sigler, daughter of George and Elizabeth Bunn Sigler in 1810. They purchased his father's farm in Mifflin County. John died June 8, 1838 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. His wife Mary also died there on June 19, 1857. Both are buried at Vira, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, California and elsewhere

The Bell-Shirley Family

The Bell-Shirley Family
Author: Elva Bell McLin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988
Genre: Bell-Shirley Family
ISBN:

Descendants of John Bell (ca. 1750-1834), born in Co. Down, Ireland. He arrived in New York City in 1774. He married Keziah Mapes (1770- 1810) in 1785. They had ten sons and a daughter, and lived in Wall- kill Township, Orange Co., N. Y. Later in life he married a second time to Mary Crane. Descendants live in New York, Ohio, etc. Includes descendants of John Ambrose Shirley (1770-1843), born in Virginia. In Marietta, Ohio, 1797, he married Elizabeth Danner, who had been born in northeastern Pennsylvania, ca. 1783. He died in Marshall Co., Indiana. Descendants live in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas and elsewhere.

The 1996 Genealogy Annual

The 1996 Genealogy Annual
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1997-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842027403

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.