John and Elizabeth McMullen Bell

John and Elizabeth Bell were married in Morgan Co. IL in the late 1820's. They were the
second party to settle in Brown Co., IL. John and his parents and siblings had moved to
Morgan Co. in 1826.  and on to Brown Co., IL in 1830.  John and his brothers James and Ira Bell settled next to each other in section 20.  They were natives of Kentucky, but migrated to Indiana in an early day and in 1826 came to Illinois, stopped in Morgan Co. until early in 1830 when they came to Brown Co. and settled as above stated.

  John's family consisted of his wife Elizabeth and two children, Mary Jane and Robert.
His house was a crude log cabin without any door and was lighted by the absence of a log in one side.  A blanket served the purpose of a door.  He remained here but a short time, whenhe moved to section 28 and erected a comfortable log house.  It was on this farm that he died in 1882, his first wife preceding him by many years.   John remarried to an Elizabeth Carter and had many more children.

Jeri Helms Fultz