Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Tombstone Tuesday ~ John Bell, Irish Immigrant, died in Bedford, NH 1767

This Tombstone is from the Old Burial Ground in Bedford, New Hampshire.


HERE LYES THE                                  HERE LIES THE
BODY OF MRS KATHE                 BODY OF MR. JOHN
RINE BELL SHE DIED JAN                  BELL DIED FEBRUARY
9TH 1746 AGED 49 YEARS                 2, 1765 AGED 67 YEARS
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OUR BODYS TURNED ARE TO DUST OUR DUST IT SHALL RISE
GOD  THIS POUER WILL RAISE THE JUST
TO CELEBRATE HIS PRAISE

According to the History of Bedford and also Bolton's Immigrants to New England 1700 - 1775, John Bell was an immigrant from Ireland around 1736.  His wife, Katherine and his four children arrived in 1739. 

Other early Bell tombstones photographed in Bedford:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-john-bell-and.html 

and also "One stone for seven Bell children":

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/tombstone-tuesday-one-stone-for-seven.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday  ~ John Bell, Irish Immigrant, died in Bedford, NH 1767", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 12, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/tombstone-tuesday-john-bell-irish.html: accessed [access date]).

1 comment:

  1. John and Katherine had a John born ca. 1732 who married Sarah Bell. (History of Bedford NH page 291.) Any idea who Sarah Bell's parents were? Steve from Seabrook.

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