When William Milton Bell was born on 22 July 1833, in Shelbyville, Shelby, Illinois, United States, his father, Alfred Bell, was 38 and his mother, Martha Louisa Montgomery, was 26. He married Martha Kirstine Bensen on 10 April 1859, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Rexburg, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1905. He died on 12 November 1908, in Salem, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
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 NamesBELL FAMILY HISTORY (Spelling and punctuation preserved as in the copy I typed from) On the twenty-second day of February, 1916, the William M. Bell Family held its first Family Reunion in the Latte …
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