Parents: Charles Robert "Charlie" Abell and Martha Annette "Nettie" Blair.

Husband of Mary Celeste Mattingly.

The Lebanon Enterprise, Friday, 7/23/1943.
HEART ATTACK BRINGS DEATH - ED ABELL, ST. MARY FARMER, SUCCUMBS UNEXPECTEDLY MONDAY MORNING. EDWARD ABELL, 52, farmer at the St. Mary vicinity, died unexpectedly Monday morning about 7:30 o'clock of what was believed to have been a heart attack following an accident in the back yard on the property of Lum Abell. He expired before his family or physican could be summoned. With his cousins, J. B. Abell and Marion Abell, and others of the same neighborhood, he was assisting in loading wheat on a wagon for transfer to the farm of Perry Lawson when his foot caught in the team's harness and he fell, striking his head on a wheel of the wagon. Since the blow was not sufficient to have caused his death he is thought to have been stricken with the fatal attack at the same time. Placed in the automobile of J. O. Lawson, he was taken to his residence, but was dead before he arrived. Mr. Abell was born in the Raywick community February 27, 1891, a son of the late Charles and Nettie Blair Abell, and had spent all of his life in this county where he was well known. When a young man he began his career as an agriculturist and had since followed that vocation. On January 15, 1918, he was united in marriage to Miss Celeste Mattingly who, with nine of the ten children born to the couple, survives. One child died in infancy. His living sons and daughters are Cpl. Alvin Abell, with the U. S. Army in North Africa; Seaman James Bertrand Abell, with the U. S. Navy, now on sea duty; Mrs. Sidney Blandford of Louisville, and Misses Theresa, Thelma and Helen Abell, and Edward, Clarence and Thomas Leo Abell, all at home. Also surviving are his step-mother, Mrs. Prudie Blair Abell; three brothers, Beckham and Ernest Abell of Raywick and Eugene Abell of California; a sister, Mrs. Mary Rose Hall of Louisville, and two grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the St. Charles Catholic Church, of which he was a faithful member, by the pastor, the Rev. Fred W. Dudine, interment following in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Oscar Mattingly, Walter Jarboe, James Blandford, J. O. Lawson, Marion Blandford and Boss Luckett.