Sacramento County Biographies

J. M. BELL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives ten miles southeast of 
Sacramento; was born in Tennessee in 1827, and lived there until 1836; he 
removed to Missouri in that year, and resided there until 1849; he then came to 
California, across the Plains, and engaged in mining in Shasta county a few 
months; he subsequently removed to Yuba county; settled in this county in 1856, 
where he has since been farming; owns three hundred and fifteen acres, worth, 
with improvements, about $6,000. He was married in 1854 to Miss E. Gunter, a 
native of Ohio, and who has borne him twelve children, five boys and seven 
girls, eight of whom are living. A view of Mr. Bell's place may be seen on 
another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.