Mrs. Elizabeth Bell Duret, was buried in this city Monday. Elizabeth Bell Duret was born Dec. 20th, 1812. She was the daughter of Major Daniel and Nancy Spencer Bell. They settled in what is now Logansport in 1829 and built a cabin at a point where the Wabash railway passenger station now stands on Duret street. They were the first to take up their residence between the Wabash and Eel rivers, this territory being a dense wilderness. She was married to Colonel John B. Duret in 1829 and with the exception of a few years' residence with her sister, Mrs. Nancy Speece, at Kokomo, she has lived in Logansport all this time, thus seeing Logansport transformed from a wilderness to a substantial and prosperous city of 20,000 population.
Mrs. Duret was the mother of nine children, two of whom survive her. She was a woman of great intellect, yet modest and retiring. Her life has been full of stirring events and few have lived to see the march of progress and improvement of this country as she has seen it.
Tuesday, February 2, 1904 - Logansport Pharos-Tribune
source : 47035834
Mrs. Duret was the mother of nine children, two of whom survive her. She was a woman of great intellect, yet modest and retiring. Her life has been full of stirring events and few have lived to see the march of progress and improvement of this country as she has seen it.
Tuesday, February 2, 1904 - Logansport Pharos-Tribune
source : 47035834
Mrs. Elizabeth Bell Duret, was buried in this city Monday. Elizabeth Bell Duret was born Dec. 20th, 1812. She was the daughter of Major Daniel and Nancy Spencer Bell. They settled in what is now Logansport in 1829 and built a cabin at a point where the Wabash railway passenger station now stands on Duret street. They were the first to take up their residence between the Wabash and Eel rivers, this territory being a dense wilderness. She was married to Colonel John B. Duret in 1829 and with the exception of a few years' residence with her sister, Mrs. Nancy Speece, at Kokomo, she has lived in Logansport all this time, thus seeing Logansport transformed from a wilderness to a substantial and prosperous city of 20,000 population.
Mrs. Duret was the mother of nine children, two of whom survive her. She was a woman of great intellect, yet modest and retiring. Her life has been full of stirring events and few have lived to see the march of progress and improvement of this country as she has seen it.
Tuesday, February 2, 1904 - Logansport Pharos-Tribune
source : 47035834
Mrs. Duret was the mother of nine children, two of whom survive her. She was a woman of great intellect, yet modest and retiring. Her life has been full of stirring events and few have lived to see the march of progress and improvement of this country as she has seen it.
Tuesday, February 2, 1904 - Logansport Pharos-Tribune
source : 47035834
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