Louisa Fletcher and Robert Bell were married about 1826, probably in Richland County, Ohio. The couple is known to have had a son, George Fletcher Bell.
Notes
Birth and death dates are unconfirmed, as is Louisa's surname.
Richland County, Ohio, marriage records, volume 2 (about 1825 to 1833) is no longer extant.
Robert Bell's household was enumerated in 1830 in Plymouth Township, Richland County. Robert's father, John Bell, entered land in Richland County in 1815; moved his family there in 1817; and enumerated in the county's Blooming Grove Township in 1820. The surname Fletcher is not found among Richland County entrymen, nor in the 1820 or 1830 censuses of the county.
George F. (Fletcher) Bell's grave marker is inscribed: "Son of R. & L. Bell."
1830 U.S. Census, Plymouth Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; p. 5 (written).
[21.] Robert Bell. (Household of four persons: male and female aged 20-29, boy and girl under age 5.)
The weeping willow symbol at the top of her marker symbolizes grief. It is also an allusion to Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
Reviewed 6 January 2020.
Notes
Birth and death dates are unconfirmed, as is Louisa's surname.
Richland County, Ohio, marriage records, volume 2 (about 1825 to 1833) is no longer extant.
Robert Bell's household was enumerated in 1830 in Plymouth Township, Richland County. Robert's father, John Bell, entered land in Richland County in 1815; moved his family there in 1817; and enumerated in the county's Blooming Grove Township in 1820. The surname Fletcher is not found among Richland County entrymen, nor in the 1820 or 1830 censuses of the county.
George F. (Fletcher) Bell's grave marker is inscribed: "Son of R. & L. Bell."
1830 U.S. Census, Plymouth Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; p. 5 (written).
[21.] Robert Bell. (Household of four persons: male and female aged 20-29, boy and girl under age 5.)
The weeping willow symbol at the top of her marker symbolizes grief. It is also an allusion to Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
Reviewed 6 January 2020.
Louisa Fletcher and Robert Bell were married about 1826, probably in Richland County, Ohio. The couple is known to have had a son, George Fletcher Bell.
Notes
Birth and death dates are unconfirmed, as is Louisa's surname.
Richland County, Ohio, marriage records, volume 2 (about 1825 to 1833) is no longer extant.
Robert Bell's household was enumerated in 1830 in Plymouth Township, Richland County. Robert's father, John Bell, entered land in Richland County in 1815; moved his family there in 1817; and enumerated in the county's Blooming Grove Township in 1820. The surname Fletcher is not found among Richland County entrymen, nor in the 1820 or 1830 censuses of the county.
George F. (Fletcher) Bell's grave marker is inscribed: "Son of R. & L. Bell."
1830 U.S. Census, Plymouth Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; p. 5 (written).
[21.] Robert Bell. (Household of four persons: male and female aged 20-29, boy and girl under age 5.)
The weeping willow symbol at the top of her marker symbolizes grief. It is also an allusion to Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
Reviewed 6 January 2020.
Notes
Birth and death dates are unconfirmed, as is Louisa's surname.
Richland County, Ohio, marriage records, volume 2 (about 1825 to 1833) is no longer extant.
Robert Bell's household was enumerated in 1830 in Plymouth Township, Richland County. Robert's father, John Bell, entered land in Richland County in 1815; moved his family there in 1817; and enumerated in the county's Blooming Grove Township in 1820. The surname Fletcher is not found among Richland County entrymen, nor in the 1820 or 1830 censuses of the county.
George F. (Fletcher) Bell's grave marker is inscribed: "Son of R. & L. Bell."
1830 U.S. Census, Plymouth Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; p. 5 (written).
[21.] Robert Bell. (Household of four persons: male and female aged 20-29, boy and girl under age 5.)
The weeping willow symbol at the top of her marker symbolizes grief. It is also an allusion to Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
Reviewed 6 January 2020.
Inscription
Very tentative—
LOUISA
[Wife of Robert Bell?]
Died [...] 1832
Aged 21 Years
[...] 17 days
Family Members
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