Chiefly ancestors and some of their descendants of John Henderson Bell. He was born November 13, 1791 in Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to William and Margaret McCartney Bell " ... on land on which his grandfather, George Bell, had settled in 1773" (Page 3). John Bell's great grandfather William Bell Sr. (died 1783) and his wife Jane (Jean) Lea were Scot-Irish who came from Ireland to America sometime before 1732 settling in Pennsylvania. John married Mary Sigler, daughter of George and Elizabeth Bunn Sigler in 1810. They purchased his father's farm in Mifflin County. John died June 8, 1838 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. His wife Mary also died there on June 19, 1857. Both are buried at Vira, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, California and elsewhere

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Bell Family

Descendants of John Bell (ca. 1750-1834), born in Co. Down, Ireland. He arrived in New York City in 1774. He married Keziah Mapes (1770- 1810) in 1785. They had ten sons and a daughter, and lived in Wall- kill Township, Orange Co., N. Y. Later in life he married a second time to Mary Crane. Descendants live in New York, Ohio, etc. Includes descendants of John Ambrose Shirley (1770-1843), born in Virginia. In Marietta, Ohio, 1797, he married Elizabeth Danner, who had been born in northeastern Pennsylvania, ca. 1783. He died in Marshall Co., Indiana. Descendants live in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas and elsewhere.