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George W. Fell
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biography
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GEORGE W. FELL,
deceased, eldest son of William and Agnes Fell, was born in Westmoreland
County, Penn., August 31, 1784, and came with his father to Mercer
County in the fall of 1796. They made a permanent settlement in the
spring of 1797, and the whole family removed thereto the following year.
He was married April 14, 1806, to Nancy Ann Dumars, and located on a
portion of the old homestead. She was born in April, 1787, and reared
eight children: Mary, who still resides upon the old homestead in her
eighty-second year; Sarah, who married Frank Merry; William G.,
deceased, by profession a civil engineer; Jonas, a deceased physician of
Lexington, Ill.; Amos D., a surveyor of Trumbull County, Ohio; Fannie,
deceased. who married Aaron M. Clark; Hannah, wife of William Jaxtheimer,
of West Salem Township, and residing upon the old homestead, and Roxanna,
deceased. Mr. Fell was appointed justice of the peace in 1822, and
served in that office for eighteen years, consecutively. He followed
farming all his life, and died August 15, 1849, upon the farm which he
settled in 1797. His widow survived him till September 21, 1871. Both
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically Mr. Fell
was a Democrat and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He lived through
all the early settlement of Mercer County, and endured the hardships and
trials incident to pioneer life.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 1176-77 |
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