Capt. Joseph Bell, Sr.

Not the same as Joseph Bell

DAR < Ancestor #: A008758 >

• BELL, JOSEPH Ancestor #: A008758
• Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, CAPTAIN
• Birth: 5-25-1742 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 3-4-1823 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
• Service Source: CREEL, SELECTED VA REV WAR RECS, VOL 2, PP 48-9; CREEL, AUGUSTA CO COURT ORDERS 1774-1785, PP 289, 299, 449
• Service Description: 1) ALSO LT, CAPT DAVID BELL, MILITIA; 2) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
• Spouse: Elizabeth Henderson

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Family

Not to be confused with:

Joseph Bell (1746-1833), of Augusta County, Virginia.
Joseph Bell (1755-aft. 1832) of Augusta County, Virginia.

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joseph_Bell_%2823%29

Children of Elizabeth Henderson and Joseph Bell (1743-1842):

1. Maj. William Bell 1766 - 1833. Married Margaret Allen.
2. Susannah 'Suckey' Bell 1768 - 1836. Married John Wayt.
3. David Bell 1771 - 1787.
4. James Bell, Esq. 1773 - 1856. Married 1) Sallie Allen 2) Sally Crawford 3) Peggy Craig
5. Elizabeth Bell 1775 -. Married Dr, John Johnston.
6. Joseph 'David' Bell, Jr. 1778 - 1855. Married Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nelson.

Biography

Family known as the Stone Church Bells Note that the next oldest sibling of Joseph was born 12 years earlier.

Joseph Bell was born in Augusta on May 25, 1742. [1]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38008449/joseph-bell

Vault says in the 81st year of his age. Based on this data, he was born in 1742.

RKelly added 2-11: from "Gleanings of Virginia History" by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, page 289, Birth and Death Records from the Tombstones of the Old Stone Church Grave Yard in Augusta County, Virginia: Bell, Joseph, born 1774; died March, 1823. In light of the inscription, 1742 appears to be correct.

Augusta Stone Church Cemetery, Old Part, Ft. Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia on http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/augusta/cemeteries/augstoneold.txt says a Joseph Bell died 4 Mar 1823.

Joseph is "referred to in Stone Church William Bell's will. He married Elizabeth Henderson b. 25 Jul 1746 on 8 May 1765."

Note: During this early period, middle names were not common. There is no evidence that Joseph had a middle name. The post naming of Senior and Junior in this same period usually meant one person was older or young that a person with the same given name and surname, it did not always indicate a father son relationship in the 18 and early 19th century.

https://accessgenealogy.com/?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&Article...

Joseph Bell was born in Augusta, Mary 25, 1742, and died there in 1823. Children: William, James, born, 1772, Joseph.

Inscription

"Sacred to the memory of JOSEPH BELL Senior who departed this life on the 4th day of March, 1823 in the 81st year of his age. He was an indulgent husband and affectionate father and a sincere Christian. His serene composure and resignation to the Devine will in his last illness manifested to his friends & 3 surviving offspring, that to him Death had no terror and that his hope (relied?) on his REDEEMER.

His Widow & 3 Descendants have created this marble to perpetrate his memory and to remind them of his (living?)"

Disambiguation

Not the same as Joseph Bell

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bell-1622

(For a time a tradition was current among the descendant of Joseph Bell to the effect that he was an only child, son of a Joseph Bell who was murdered, with his wife, by an indentured servant. The origin of this tradition is not clear, but it is known that there was an older Joseph Bell (contemporary to William Bell, father of Joseph . This older Joseph Bell purchased a lot at the founding of Staunton in 1747, and received a license to operate an “ordinary” in 1758. It seems likely that he was a close associate, probably a brother of William Bell, which could account for the confusion in the tradition).

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bell-1622

1. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia
2. Stone Church Bells
3. Augusta Stone Church Cemetery
4. "Gleanings of Virginia History," by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, page 289, Birth and Death Records from the Tombstones of the Old Stone Church Grave Yard in Augusta County, Virginia
5. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38008449/joseph-bell
6. Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 2, 2017), "Record of Captain Joseph Bell", Ancestor # A008758.
7. Biography - page 431 Annals of Augusta County VA 1888 by Joseph A Waddell at http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofaugusta00wadd
8. Additional death information & Burial - findagrave.com
9. Joseph is "referred to in Stone Church William Bell's will. He married Elizabeth Henderson b. 25 Jul 1746 on 8 May 1765."
10. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/e/l/Thomas-W-Bell/GENE25-0002.html
11. The Bell family in America being an account of the founders and first colonial families, an official list of the heads of families of the name resident in the United States in 1790 and a bibliography. by Weeks, Lyman Horace. (1913) < Archive.org > Joseph Bell, of the family called the Stone Church Bells, was in Stanton in 1747 where he purchased land. He and his wife were murdered before 1764. He left a son Joseph. Joseph Bell, son of the foregoing, was born in Augusta, May 25, 1742, and died there in 1823. He married Elizabeth Henderson. Their chil- dren were: William, married Margaret Allen, daughter of James Allen; James, born, 1772, died 1856, married Sarah Allen, daughter of James Allen, and had William A. and Sarah; Joseph, married a daughter of Alexander Nel- son; a daughter, married John Wayt; a daugh- ter, married Dr. John Johnston.