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Etheline 'Ethel' Bell[1, 2]

Female 1835 - 1914  (~ 78 years)


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  • Name Etheline 'Ethel' Bell 
    Born Oct 1835  Muhlenberg, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 22 Apr 1914  Paducah, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Mt. Kenton Cemetery, Paducah, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I547451681  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2016 

    Father Charles F. W. Bell,   b. 1806, Greenville, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jan 1872, Jefferson County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Pheobe Reynolds,   b. 9 Aug 1809, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 6 Mar 1832  Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F518495471  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 W.B. Abston,   b. Est 1835,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 12 Dec 1858  Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Last Modified 20 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F518495738  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 George Meyers,   b. 1815, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 12 Mar 1866  McCraken, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2023 
    Family ID F518495739  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Death Certificate-Etheline Myers (nee Bell)
    Death Certificate-Etheline Myers (nee Bell)
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  • Sources 
    1. [S48] Ancestry Link.
      Etheline Bell (1835-1914)
      Etheline Bell
      Daughter of Charles C. Bell and Phoebe Young Reynolds
      Etheline Bell was born in October 1835 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She was the second of three children born to Charles C. Bell and Phoebe Young Reynolds.
      On December 12, 1855 Etheline married a man by the name of W.C. Abston in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She was 20 years old and he was 28 years. W.C. was born in 1827 in Virginia. W.C. Abston died just four years later in November 1859. The cause of death was typhoid fever. Ethel Abston is found in her father's household in 1860. Ethel married George Meyers on March 12, 1866 in McCracken County, Kentucky. Ethel was 35 years old and George was 51 years. George was born in 1815 in Pennsylvania. Ethel did not have any children from either of her marriages. Ethel was listed as a widow in the 1900 US Census, George having died between 1880 and 1900. Ethel moved in with a cousin, Belle O'Brein (or O'Bryan), on Jefferson Street, Paducah, mcCracken, Kentucky in 1900. She is listed in that household in the 1900 and the 1910 US Census. Ethelina Bell Abstoin Meyers died on April 22, 1914 in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky. The cause of death listed was pleurisy and kidney failure. She was 79 years old.
      Notes for Etheline Bell
      Birth: Year: 1900; Census Place: Paducah Ward 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T623 540; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 66.
      Marriage to W.C. Abstain: Ancestry.com. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Residence in 1860: Year: 1860; Census Place: Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M653_383; Page: 0; Image: 619.
      Marriage to George Meyers: Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Death: Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Notes for W.C. Abston
      Birth: Ancestry.com. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Death: U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
      Notes for George Meyers
      Birth: Year: 1870; Census Place: Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M593_487; Page: 119; Image: 238.
      Death: Year: 1900; Census Place: Paducah Ward 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T623 540; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 66.


      Labels: Abston W C, Bell Charles C, Bell Etheline, Meyers George, O'Brian Belle, Reynolds Phoebe Young

    2. [S37] Death Certificate, Etheline Myers (nee Bell).

    3. [S18] Family Search, LDS, George Meyers.