Thomas Clelland Bell

Birth Date

1838-08-29

Death Date

1901

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor. Anderson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. Bell. Married to Sallie M. Bell on September 15, 1859. Father of Paul E. Bell, Anna C. Bell, and William C. Bell. Attended Transylvania University. Teacher in Salvisa, Kentucky, from 1838 to 1862. Attorney in Harrodsburg in 1863. County surveyor of Mercer County, Kentucky, from 1862 to 1866.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 22.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 177.
“Thomas Clelland Bell (1838-1901),” Find A Grave, Memorial #45692592, accessed June 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45692592.

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