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East Texas Recruits Sent to North & West Texas
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Woody Bell,
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Your ancestor’s TST and CSA service illustrates a major migration pattern established during the Civil War era; i.e., T.S. Bell was married in 1859 Cherokee Co TX then was found in a June 1861 Johnson Co TX militia.
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This concept is a major contribution to Texas history presented in my book: East Texas Recruits sent to the North and West Texas Frontier that is defined on my webpage:
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/EastTexasRecruitsToWestTexas.htm
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You may remember the thread on this message board: “O'Neal, Keith, & Majors of Titus & Erath Counties” that also illustrates this migration pattern: East Texas Recruits sent to West Texas. ..W.F. McFarland listed on 22 May 2008 a listing of his relatives who served in Gurley's 30th Cavalry, Co G.
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Below is the "T.S. Bell" entry in my Name Index.
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BELL
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Thadeus Sobroski Bell, (1831 Cumberland Co NC-1869 Virginia Point, Fann Co TX), parents: Sarah Slocum and Robert Bell; m-1859 Rusk, Cherokee Co TX to Martha Sara "Mattie" King; Gurley's 30th Cav, Co E (Johnson Co, TST), A-229
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Quoting Woody Bell of Minco OK:
Thad was not on the 1860 census. I do not know where he was in 1860. ..He was married in Rusk, Cherokee Couty, Texas in 1859. ..He was born in Cumberland County, NC in 1831. ..Next record of him is census in 1850 in Alabama living with some of his mother's kin. ..I have very little on the Bell side of the family. I do have his mother's and father's names: Robert Bell and Sarah Slocum. ..Nothing else on them. ..He died in 1869 in Virgina Point, Fannin Co., Tx.
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A feller in NC once stated that he had information that Thad had siblings and that Thad and siblings left NC for Fannin Co., Texas. ..I don't know if more of the Bell family came to Texas.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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