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FELL
CENSUS
OBITUARIES
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
A small portion of a newspaper article contained the following information on the Fell family. -
Mr. Killough the then propritor of this farm did not prosper in business and about 1832 or 33 sold it to
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Benjamin Fell, a Bucks County Quaker, who with his family consisted of himself , his wife Jane, and four children : Francis, the only son, and Leah, Mary and Rachel. When I first knew them they were no longer young but advancing toward middle life. Benjamin Fell the father was advanced in years and and a strict member of the Society of Friends. His wife Jane , had the misfourtune to be slightly demented, and did not live long after her removal to Little Britain, Francis the son married Rachel Brown, a sister of Ellwood Brown, well known in the Southern end of Lancaster County.
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of Rachel the youngest of the Fell sisters I know little She never went from home, was seldom seen by visitors who called on the homestead and when was seen was exedingly reserved and reticent. It was said she formed an unfoutunate socail connection in early life, the fruit of which was the birth of an illegitimate child
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who was know as Charles Fell. The boy made his home with the family and was reconized as one of them and given the same treatment and opportunities as though there was no shadow on his birth
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When he grew up to manhood and the other members of the family died he came into possession of the Fell farm, which has just been sold as stated above
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he married a daughter of William Dungan, who lived near Quarryville and raised a family of children. Misfourtune seemed to follow him both in his financial and social relations.
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He became involved in debt and at emnity with some members of his family and finally abandoned his home, which has just been sold. He died a few months since at the residence of his son in Cecil County Md.
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Such is a breif history of the Fell farm It would undoubtedly have sold years ago for three times the price its recent purchaser pays
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