When Eugene Francis Bell was born on 25 January 1907, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Alfred James Bell, was 38 and his mother, Samantha Evaline Shurtliff, was 32. He married Helen White on 25 October 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 10 January 1990, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesBells Confectionery was originally owned by Alfred James Bell and run by him and two of his sons: Eugene and Marion. He later traded it to his son Alfred Mervill Bell for a farm. Mervill and his wife …
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