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Updated: 07-12-2021 05:07:80.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Catherine Douglas Bell: Birth: 8 OCT 1858 in Kentucky. Death: 12 DEC 1881 in Kentucky

  2. Gilmer Meriwether Bell: Birth: 27 NOV 1859 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 5 MAR 1894 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

  3. Margaret Lewis Bell: Birth: 15 FEB 1862 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 13 JAN 1951 in Christian County, Kentucky

  4. John Francis Bell: Birth: 3 SEP 1868 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 18 MAR 1909 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky


Notes
a. Note:   N1601 Unknown Newspaper
  Obituary
 Died, Dec. 23, 1872, at home in Christian county Ky., Mrs. Mary Walker Bell, wife of Capt. Darwin Bell. She died on the day that she completed her 42d year—an event she had predicted several weeks in advance, and met her fate with a pious resignation that robbed death of his terrors.
  Mrs. Bell was a native of Virginia and one of its gifted daughters. Endowed with a strong mind, she cultivated it with studious care, and gave to the public many articles of merit, both in prose and verse. Too modest and retiring to crave distinction in the field of literature, she was too pure and refined to contend for notoriety in that new field of ideas in which some of her sex would win a doubtful reputation, at the sacrifice of all that is lovable and pure in woman's character. Like a true woman, she valued her gifts for their domestic and social benefits, rather than a means of public display. She has passed away, but that light of her pure example—let us hope—will be the guiding star of her bereaved husband and four motherless children.
  "But while from friendships silken string
 Each year some pearl is scattering.
 Let's learn, from each sad loss, to cling
 More firm and true,
 To those yet spared by time's rude wing,
 ——The cherished few."

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