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Seeking information on Benjamin Bell and his wife Margaret Sumner

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Benjamin A Bell

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Name: Benjamin A Bell

Event Type: Burial

Event Place: Eureka, Woodford, Illinois, United States of America

Photograph Included: Yes

Birth Date: 1843

Affiliate Record Identifier: 60959417

Cemetery: Olio Township Cemetery

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Benjamin A Bell

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Birth: 1843

Death: Aug. 28, 1917

Illinois, USA

Served 2 terms in Co K, 26th IL Infantry during the Civil War.

He was classified as "Invalid" on 7/17/1868.

Burial: Olio Township Cemetery 

Eureka, Woodford County, Illinois, USA

Created by: Alvin Oglesby

Record added: Nov 01, 2010 

Find A Grave Memorial# 60959417

Photo of his tombstone at the following site:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=60959417&PIpi=35042845

 

My mother's maiden name was Bell, but I don't see a connection yet.

 

Answer 2

Marguerite "Margaret" Sumner Bell

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Birth: Jan. 30, 1850

Illinois, USA

Death: Aug. 29, 1917

Eureka

Woodford County

Illinois, USA

Daughter of John & Clara (Crawford) Sumner

Children: Emma, Calvin, & William

She was widowed prior to the 1900 census 

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 Children:

  William Leonard Bell (1886 - 1969)*

*Calculated relationship

 Burial: Olio Township Cemetery,  

Eureka

Woodford County

Illinois, USA

 Created by: Deb McCallister

Record added: Apr 21, 2015 

Find A Grave Memorial# 145377038

Answer 3

Margaret SUMNER b 30 Jan 1850 d 1918 Woodford Co IL; m Benjamin BELL

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SUMNER/2001-01/0978394892

John Jethro SUMNER b 1817 VA (possibly NC) d 24 Jul 1893 North Bend NE
bur Purple Cane Cem; m 15 Dec 1842 Eureka, Woodford Co (traditionally
Tazwell Co) IL Clarissa CRAWFORD "Clarcy" d 1915