Coon Rapids Enterprise May 1, 1931
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The entire community was shocked last Monday evening by the news of the passing of one of Coon Rapids' oldest and most beloved citizens, Jacob Harrison Bell. The last survivor of that noble band who so proudly wore the little bronze button of the G. A. R. is gone. No more will we be able to joke and talk with "Uncle Jake" and listen to his stories of long ago.
The history of Mr. Bell's life is similar to that of many other men born in the 40's. If they survived the vicissitudes and hardships of that pioneer period and managed to achieve success it was through sheer pluck and perseverance. Mr. Bell saw all of these as the history of his life discloses.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 2nd, 1843. August 9, 1862, when only nineteen years of age he enlisted as a private in Co. K. 87th Indiana Volunteers for three years or the duration of the war. He served for three years and nine months. His outfit was held at Camp Rowe, South Bend, for a month or so and they were then ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky. His war record, considering the engagements, was a notable one, he had taken part in the following battles; Springfield, Perryville, Kentucky, Chapel Hill, Hoover's Gap, Chatanooga, Tenn., Chicamauga, where 28 of his company were killed in a charge, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ressaca and Dallas, Georgia, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Smithfield. He was with Gen. Sherman in his famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
He was wounded in the neck by a spent ball at Atlanta. At Chicamauga he was captured by the Confederates and held prisoner for about ten hours when the Union forces recaptured him and seventeen others of his company.
After his discharge from the army he located at Rock Island, Illinois, where he made his home for several years. On September 2nd, 1868, he was united in marriage to Margarette Spickler at Rock Island. He became a member of the Baptist church while living at this place.
Shortly after this Mr. and Mrs. Bell moved to Falls City, Nebraska, where they lived for three years. After meeting with reverses caused by drought and grasshoppers they moved to Clyde, Kansas, and a few months later to Gillman, Iowa, where most of the children were born. In 1883 they moved to their farm three miles west of Coon Rapids where they lived for thirty-one years. Sixteen years ago, they retired from the farm and with the exception of a few months spent in Stuart have made their home in Coon Rapids.
Mr. Bell is survived by his widow and eight children; John S., Henry G., Ray W., and Mrs. Maud Maybay of Coon Rapids, Ethel Tuel of Rockwell City, Loren T. of Moravia, New York, Jacob Benton and Albert G. of Waupun, Wisconsin. He is also survived by thirty grandchildren, twenty-six greatgrandchildren and one brother, John P. Bell, of Waukeny, Kansas. The friends who survive are legion.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here yesterday afternoon at two o'clock and were in charge of the Rev. W. F. Clayburg. The Masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Bell was a member, had charge of the service at the grave.
A military escort from Guerney Parker Post of the American Legion did full honor to the departed veteran and a bugler sounded taps at the conclusion of the ceremonies at the grave as a tribute to the last of the G. A. R.
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The entire community was shocked last Monday evening by the news of the passing of one of Coon Rapids' oldest and most beloved citizens, Jacob Harrison Bell. The last survivor of that noble band who so proudly wore the little bronze button of the G. A. R. is gone. No more will we be able to joke and talk with "Uncle Jake" and listen to his stories of long ago.
The history of Mr. Bell's life is similar to that of many other men born in the 40's. If they survived the vicissitudes and hardships of that pioneer period and managed to achieve success it was through sheer pluck and perseverance. Mr. Bell saw all of these as the history of his life discloses.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 2nd, 1843. August 9, 1862, when only nineteen years of age he enlisted as a private in Co. K. 87th Indiana Volunteers for three years or the duration of the war. He served for three years and nine months. His outfit was held at Camp Rowe, South Bend, for a month or so and they were then ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky. His war record, considering the engagements, was a notable one, he had taken part in the following battles; Springfield, Perryville, Kentucky, Chapel Hill, Hoover's Gap, Chatanooga, Tenn., Chicamauga, where 28 of his company were killed in a charge, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ressaca and Dallas, Georgia, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Smithfield. He was with Gen. Sherman in his famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
He was wounded in the neck by a spent ball at Atlanta. At Chicamauga he was captured by the Confederates and held prisoner for about ten hours when the Union forces recaptured him and seventeen others of his company.
After his discharge from the army he located at Rock Island, Illinois, where he made his home for several years. On September 2nd, 1868, he was united in marriage to Margarette Spickler at Rock Island. He became a member of the Baptist church while living at this place.
Shortly after this Mr. and Mrs. Bell moved to Falls City, Nebraska, where they lived for three years. After meeting with reverses caused by drought and grasshoppers they moved to Clyde, Kansas, and a few months later to Gillman, Iowa, where most of the children were born. In 1883 they moved to their farm three miles west of Coon Rapids where they lived for thirty-one years. Sixteen years ago, they retired from the farm and with the exception of a few months spent in Stuart have made their home in Coon Rapids.
Mr. Bell is survived by his widow and eight children; John S., Henry G., Ray W., and Mrs. Maud Maybay of Coon Rapids, Ethel Tuel of Rockwell City, Loren T. of Moravia, New York, Jacob Benton and Albert G. of Waupun, Wisconsin. He is also survived by thirty grandchildren, twenty-six greatgrandchildren and one brother, John P. Bell, of Waukeny, Kansas. The friends who survive are legion.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here yesterday afternoon at two o'clock and were in charge of the Rev. W. F. Clayburg. The Masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Bell was a member, had charge of the service at the grave.
A military escort from Guerney Parker Post of the American Legion did full honor to the departed veteran and a bugler sounded taps at the conclusion of the ceremonies at the grave as a tribute to the last of the G. A. R.
Coon Rapids Enterprise May 1, 1931
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The entire community was shocked last Monday evening by the news of the passing of one of Coon Rapids' oldest and most beloved citizens, Jacob Harrison Bell. The last survivor of that noble band who so proudly wore the little bronze button of the G. A. R. is gone. No more will we be able to joke and talk with "Uncle Jake" and listen to his stories of long ago.
The history of Mr. Bell's life is similar to that of many other men born in the 40's. If they survived the vicissitudes and hardships of that pioneer period and managed to achieve success it was through sheer pluck and perseverance. Mr. Bell saw all of these as the history of his life discloses.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 2nd, 1843. August 9, 1862, when only nineteen years of age he enlisted as a private in Co. K. 87th Indiana Volunteers for three years or the duration of the war. He served for three years and nine months. His outfit was held at Camp Rowe, South Bend, for a month or so and they were then ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky. His war record, considering the engagements, was a notable one, he had taken part in the following battles; Springfield, Perryville, Kentucky, Chapel Hill, Hoover's Gap, Chatanooga, Tenn., Chicamauga, where 28 of his company were killed in a charge, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ressaca and Dallas, Georgia, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Smithfield. He was with Gen. Sherman in his famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
He was wounded in the neck by a spent ball at Atlanta. At Chicamauga he was captured by the Confederates and held prisoner for about ten hours when the Union forces recaptured him and seventeen others of his company.
After his discharge from the army he located at Rock Island, Illinois, where he made his home for several years. On September 2nd, 1868, he was united in marriage to Margarette Spickler at Rock Island. He became a member of the Baptist church while living at this place.
Shortly after this Mr. and Mrs. Bell moved to Falls City, Nebraska, where they lived for three years. After meeting with reverses caused by drought and grasshoppers they moved to Clyde, Kansas, and a few months later to Gillman, Iowa, where most of the children were born. In 1883 they moved to their farm three miles west of Coon Rapids where they lived for thirty-one years. Sixteen years ago, they retired from the farm and with the exception of a few months spent in Stuart have made their home in Coon Rapids.
Mr. Bell is survived by his widow and eight children; John S., Henry G., Ray W., and Mrs. Maud Maybay of Coon Rapids, Ethel Tuel of Rockwell City, Loren T. of Moravia, New York, Jacob Benton and Albert G. of Waupun, Wisconsin. He is also survived by thirty grandchildren, twenty-six greatgrandchildren and one brother, John P. Bell, of Waukeny, Kansas. The friends who survive are legion.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here yesterday afternoon at two o'clock and were in charge of the Rev. W. F. Clayburg. The Masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Bell was a member, had charge of the service at the grave.
A military escort from Guerney Parker Post of the American Legion did full honor to the departed veteran and a bugler sounded taps at the conclusion of the ceremonies at the grave as a tribute to the last of the G. A. R.
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The entire community was shocked last Monday evening by the news of the passing of one of Coon Rapids' oldest and most beloved citizens, Jacob Harrison Bell. The last survivor of that noble band who so proudly wore the little bronze button of the G. A. R. is gone. No more will we be able to joke and talk with "Uncle Jake" and listen to his stories of long ago.
The history of Mr. Bell's life is similar to that of many other men born in the 40's. If they survived the vicissitudes and hardships of that pioneer period and managed to achieve success it was through sheer pluck and perseverance. Mr. Bell saw all of these as the history of his life discloses.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 2nd, 1843. August 9, 1862, when only nineteen years of age he enlisted as a private in Co. K. 87th Indiana Volunteers for three years or the duration of the war. He served for three years and nine months. His outfit was held at Camp Rowe, South Bend, for a month or so and they were then ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky. His war record, considering the engagements, was a notable one, he had taken part in the following battles; Springfield, Perryville, Kentucky, Chapel Hill, Hoover's Gap, Chatanooga, Tenn., Chicamauga, where 28 of his company were killed in a charge, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ressaca and Dallas, Georgia, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Smithfield. He was with Gen. Sherman in his famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
He was wounded in the neck by a spent ball at Atlanta. At Chicamauga he was captured by the Confederates and held prisoner for about ten hours when the Union forces recaptured him and seventeen others of his company.
After his discharge from the army he located at Rock Island, Illinois, where he made his home for several years. On September 2nd, 1868, he was united in marriage to Margarette Spickler at Rock Island. He became a member of the Baptist church while living at this place.
Shortly after this Mr. and Mrs. Bell moved to Falls City, Nebraska, where they lived for three years. After meeting with reverses caused by drought and grasshoppers they moved to Clyde, Kansas, and a few months later to Gillman, Iowa, where most of the children were born. In 1883 they moved to their farm three miles west of Coon Rapids where they lived for thirty-one years. Sixteen years ago, they retired from the farm and with the exception of a few months spent in Stuart have made their home in Coon Rapids.
Mr. Bell is survived by his widow and eight children; John S., Henry G., Ray W., and Mrs. Maud Maybay of Coon Rapids, Ethel Tuel of Rockwell City, Loren T. of Moravia, New York, Jacob Benton and Albert G. of Waupun, Wisconsin. He is also survived by thirty grandchildren, twenty-six greatgrandchildren and one brother, John P. Bell, of Waukeny, Kansas. The friends who survive are legion.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here yesterday afternoon at two o'clock and were in charge of the Rev. W. F. Clayburg. The Masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Bell was a member, had charge of the service at the grave.
A military escort from Guerney Parker Post of the American Legion did full honor to the departed veteran and a bugler sounded taps at the conclusion of the ceremonies at the grave as a tribute to the last of the G. A. R.
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