- ADAM BELL, retired carpenter, Shopiere; born in Saratoga
Co., Aug. 15, 1811; son of William
- BELL, who was of North of Ireland descent; Adam BELL's mother,
Mrs. A. VAN FRANKEN, was of old Dutch stock that settled among
the Mohawk. Mr. William BELL was in the war of 1812 and died
in 1855 at the age of 82. Adam BELL married Jane YATES, daughter
of Cornelius YATES, in New York; have had eight children - William
D. (went to Washington at his own expense and enlisted in the
McClellan Dragoons and served his time faithfully until he was
taken sick and came home and died Oct. 11, 1863; he was of a
most patriotic spirit; the last word he uttered was liberty,
and desired to see the stars and stripes), Nettie (died at the
age of 27), Samuel (is now a prominent physician in Beloit),
Andrew L. (is in Shelby Co., Iowa), Mary M. (is at home), Francellia
(died when an infant), Emma (married W. SWINGLE), Charles E.
(is in Iowa teaching school), another died in infancy. Mr. Adam
BELL came from Montgomery Co., N.Y., to Waterloo (now called
Shopiere) Jan. 21, 1849; worked at his trade of carpenter most
of his life; now has forty acres of land, a pleasant home and
is in comfortable circumstances; near his house is an immense
specimen of the willow-tree, which he set out in 1850 from a
little sprout not bigger than a straw; it has grown to be nine
feet nine inches in circumference two feet from the ground, extends
north and south fifty-two feet, east and west forty-six and a
half feet; height, forty-five feet. A singular coincidence in
the life of William D. BELL is that he was born in October, enlisted
in October, was discharged in October and died in October.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 799-800.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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