Birth:  15 Aug 1842;   Death:  26 Aug 1895;   Burial:  26 Aug 1895;   Nativity:  UNK

Location:  Lot 70, Plot 5   (block E)

Ledger Notes:
Age:  53 Yrs., 11 Mos.      

Ledger lists him as a veteran of the Spanish War, but he died before that conflict.  Family members confirm that he was a Civil War veteran.

General Notes:
Oregon Pioneer   

Civil War Veteran, Illinois Infantry

Son of Robert & Levina (Conner) Bell - both in Champoeg Cemetery;

Husband of Rachael (Taylor);

Father of Frances, Flora, Mary, Robert, Coloma, Infant Son, Vesta, & Ruth

Family Notes:  See more info on this individual under Frankie Brown.
Contribution of neighbor, Stephen Baker:   "The family historian noted that the elder had a mill in Wilsonville and settled in 1874.  Listed in the 1880 census for Pleasant Hill.  I believe that this is the Bell for whom Bell Road is named.  My family had stories that a "Bell" organized building a road from present day Wilsonville Road to Graham's Ferry Road to connect the two and continued where it follows today to the intersection of present-day Baker Road.  My family grumbled that Mr. Bell organized it, but the Bakers donated the land and the labor -- but Bell got the naming rights!  The section up the canyon followed an old Indian trail.  The trail continued crossing the Baker DLC and the "new" road was moved easterly to the present day location which was at the edge of cleared fields rather than running diagonally across the farm.  The Indian trail was a trading route between a native settlement on the river near the mouth of Corral Creek and where present-day Riverview Lane is located (the river would flood the wetland, and as it receded, many fish were left stranded and were easy to spear).  The natives' trail connected to the Chehalem/Tualatin and Grande Ronde areas and tribes.  As a boy growing up on our farm, I hunted for and found numerous arrow heads in the fields where this trail crossed.  Additionally, I have an anchor used by the natives for a canoe from the Riverview Lane area that was picked up by Endymian Baker upon his arrival in 1853 and when they wintered in a Zumwalt cabin near the mouth of the creek."