Etheline Bell
Daughter of Charles
C. Bell and Phoebe Young Reynolds
Etheline
Bell was born in October 1835 in Muhlenberg County,
Kentucky. She was the second of three children born to Charles C. Bell
and Phoebe Young Reynolds.
On December 12, 1855 Etheline married a man by
the name of W.C. Abston in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She was 20 years
old and he was 28 years. W.C. was born in 1827 in Virginia. W.C.
Abston died just four years later in November 1859. The cause of death
was typhoid fever. Ethel Abston is found in her father’s household in
1860.
Ethel married George Meyers on March 12, 1866 in
McCracken County, Kentucky. Ethel was 35 years old and George was 51
years. George was born in 1815 in Pennsylvania. Ethel did not have
any children from either of her marriages.
Ethel was listed as a widow in the 1900 US
Census, George having died between 1880 and 1900. Ethel moved in with a
cousin, Belle O’Brein (or O’Bryan), on Jefferson Street, Paducah, McCracken,
Kentucky in 1900. She is listed in that household in the 1900 and the
1910 US Census.
Ethelina Bell Abstoin Meyers died on April 22,
1914 in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky. The cause of death listed was
pleurisy and kidney failure. She was 79 years old.
Notes for Etheline Bell
Birth: Year: 1900; Census Place:
Paducah Ward 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T623 540; Page:
16B; Enumeration District: 66.
Marriage to W.C. Abstain: Ancestry.com. Kentucky Marriage Records,
1852-1914 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Residence in 1860: Year: 1860; Census Place: Paducah,
McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M653_383; Page: 0; Image: 619.
Marriage to George Meyers: Dodd, Jordan,
comp.. Kentucky Marriages,
1851-1900 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Death: Kentucky
Death Records, 1852-1953 [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Notes for W.C. Abston
Birth: Ancestry.com. Kentucky Marriage Records,
1852-1914 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Death: U.S.
Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original
data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules
of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census
substitutes.
Notes for George Meyers
Birth: Year: 1870; Census Place:
Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M593_487; Page: 119; Image:
238.
Death: Year: 1900; Census Place:
Paducah Ward 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T623 540; Page:
16B; Enumeration District: 66.
