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Martha Pell (Spratlen)

Also Known As: "Betsy"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States
Death: November 21, 1867 (57)
Union, Cass County, Nebraska, United States
Place of Burial: Cass County, Nebraska, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of George Spratlen and Lydia Spratlen
Wife of Richard A. Pell, Sr.
Mother of Catherin Pell; Henry Tatum Pell; Lydia Bird True; George W. Pell; Elizabeth Bryant and 1 other
Sister of Jane Spratlen and James Augustus Spratlen

Managed by: Gary Phelps
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About Martha Pell

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Richard and Martha Spratlen Pell came to Nebraska by covered wagon from St. Joseph, Missouri in 1853. The family arrived in Otoe County a year before it was legal for settlers to enter the Nebraska Territory. It is true that the Pells, along with a few other families, jumped the gun on legal entry, but by 1854 when they moved to Cass County they established a legal claim near Union, secured with a special government dispensation, which Richard Pell had received for serving in the U.S. Army as a young man. There were a number of other Spratlin / Spratlen families in Cass Co. as of the 1860 census. This according to Gertrude True Wood

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Martha Pell's Timeline

1760
1760
MD
1810
April 25, 1810
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States
1838
February 29, 1838
1844
1844
Missouri, United States
1867
November 21, 1867
Age 57
Union, Cass County, Nebraska, United States
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Buck Cemetery, Cass County, Nebraska, United States