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William Bell (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer and dentist)

b. 1815?

Fleming County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, and dentist. Greenfield, Ohio, native. Married to Mary D. Bell. Father of Charles E. Bell. Married to Lucinda Bruce Bell. Father of Milley Bell and Henry C. "Harry" Bell. Merchant in Greenfield in 1850. Employed Main Turner in Greenfield in 1850. Farmer and dentist in Fleming County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Highland County, Greenfield, p. 133A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Elizaville, District 1, p. 862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 465A-B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Elizaville, p. 362A-B.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film 7017516: All Counties, Mason County 1926, File #32096, p. 2401 of 3091 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, “William Bell (1815-1898)," Memorial # 25760084, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25760084/william-bell (accessed November 17, 2020).

Citation

Bell, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203766 (November 12, 2026).

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