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Not the same as Joseph Bell
DAR < Ancestor #: A008758 >
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):
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?)"
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).
1742 |
May 25, 1742
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Virginia, British Colonial America
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1773 |
1773
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1778 |
May 25, 1778
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Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, United States
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1823 |
March 4, 1823
Age 80
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Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, United States
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