William H. Bell

According to the Salem Death Records, William H. Bell is the son of William Bell and Mary E. Monarch, and was born around 1845. Some time before the 1855 MA Census he came to live with Benjamin and Maria Jewell, relatives on his mother’s side. Before the Civil War he worked as a laborer.

He joined Company B of the 7th Massachusetts on July 1, 1862. I was unable to find him in the regiment’s muster rolls available through the National Archives, but it is very possible that those rolls have not yet been digitized and/or indexed. According to one source he was a POW.

After the war he served as a courier, and continued to live with the Jewells. William died of congestion of the lungs on September 7, 1868 in Salem, MA. His government headstone was placed in the Soldiers’ Lot in Salem’s Harmony Grove Cemetery in 1888.