Brief Life History of Sheridan Watson
When Sheridan Watson Bell was born on 24 September 1864, in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States, his father, Erasmus Uriah Bell, was 34 and his mother, Martha F Watson, was 31. He married Claora Gunnison on 28 June 1898, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 1 May 1938, in Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States.
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- S W Bell, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sheridan W Bell - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Sheridan Watson Bell
- Sheridan W. Bell, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1881 · Hamilton County History
History of Hamilton County Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches ~~~~~ Compiled by: Henry A. Ford, A. M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford ~~~~~ L. A. Williams & Co. Publishers 1881
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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