Obituaries often provide a lot of history, especially when we go several generations back in time.
Ned and Gabarella Bell were my grandmother Della Dixon's maternal grandparents. Della's mom Marinda was their oldest child.
Click on the pictures... they are actually digital snapshots of the actual newspaper articles... to enlarge the text. You may need to zoom in, depending on your computer.
These obituaries are from the collection of Lois Goodson of Albion. The Bell's daugher Myrtle was the grandmother of Lois Goodson.
And there were a lot of cousins... children of the 12 children of Ned and Gaby.
The obituary reminded me of what Lois explained to me. Gaby's father died before she was born. Her mother died 6 weeks after she was born. She was raised by an aunt and uncle. Then she married Ned Bell at age 16 and had a dozen kids. Most of them lived to adulthood. She had 100 descendents when she passed.
Gaby lived to age 84. She was born the year after the Civil War ended and died in 1951. Think of the changes that occured during those years. Electric lights and power, airplanes, atomic bombs, radio, the phonograph, the telephone, the automobile, etc.
She lived in the Golden Gate area most of her life. That was "town" to the Fisher family. Well, at least there was a grocery and a church.
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