Brief Life History of Middleton Raymond
When Middleton Raymond Bell was born on 9 January 1825, in Jackson, Georgia, United States, his father, William Milton Bell Jr, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Betsy Hampton, was 24. He married Pillina Charity David on 12 February 1850, in Jackson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Abernathy, Cleburne, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 29 December 1892, in Bell Mills, Cleburne, Alabama, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Heflin, Cleburne, Alabama, United States.
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- M R Bell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Middleton R. Bell, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- U.S., Register of Civil, Military, and Naval Service, 1863-1959
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Randolph, Alabama, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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