Brief Life History of John Cunningham
When John Cunningham Bell was born on 24 August 1868, in Midlothian, Scotland, his father, Thomas Bell, was 23 and his mother, Agnes Cunningham, was 23. He married Helen Ellen Burnside on 24 December 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Shettleston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871 and Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 6 September 1938, in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- John Bell in household of Thomas Bell, "Scotland Census, 1871"
- John Bell, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- John C. Bell, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1880: Emery, Utah Territory, United States 1894: Carbon, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Carbon, Utah, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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ELLEN BURNSIDE BELL I haven’t been very successful in finding out much of the life of Ellen Burnside Bell. How sad the family couldn’t have seen far enough ahead, that while her husband, brothers, …
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