MENALOGICAL RECORDS

 TIE BELL FAMILY


 Louis LeBel (Anglicized into Bell) was the ancestor of
 the fanrily in Tampa which bears the name at the head of this
 sketch. He was a native of Bordeaux, France. He was brought
 to America when a child of but three years of age. He lived
 in Quebec, Canada, in early life, where he learned the trade
 of a briclcnasn. He came to Tampa when it vas only a military
 post and reservation, and worked at his trade at Fort Brooke
 for the -overnment, and was probably the first who plied that
 trade in this city.
 He was one of the settlers who so long contested Ahe
 riPht to enter as homesteads te reservation named. lie with
 ,3is associates was 't length successful, and tlhe tract claimed
 by him w.s divided amon r 3a heirs, and their attorneys, after
 his death.
 Louis Bell married Eliza Coller. Thoy had a numerous
 family. Their twelve children ;were Louis, Eliza Ann, Charles
 Henry, Joseph Urich, Thomas Jefferson, John .Valtor, Matilda
 Pius, William James, Mary Josephine, Louisa DeN., Augustus
 Theodore and Frank.
 Louis Bell, the eldest son, married !rs. Florencia
Haager, a widow, whose maiden name was Leonardi. (See Leonardi
family.) By her last marriage, that to Louis Bell, there were
born to her two sons, Simon L. (deceased) and George A. The
-'ormer became e on of the mcst skillful printers of this section
of the country. He has been dead several years.
 George A. Bell married Linnia Post. They have four chil-
dren, Hilda, Edna, Duff and Adrian.
 Louis Bell, the second, and his wife have both been dead
for many years.
 iliza Ann has never married. She is still living in this
city, on a portion of her father's original homestead.
 Thomas Jefferson has been dead for many years. He never
rrirried.
 John :alter has been a printer and editor and all-round
ne-spaper man all his life. Tie is now the editor and publisher
of the Tavares Herald, published at the flourishing county seat
of Lake County, in this state. He was residing in Galveston,
Texas, at the time of the great storm and flood. His wife and
one child were drowned. He married the second time, but has
had no children by this marriage.
 Matilda Pius Bell married Anton Fiehe, a skilled land-
scape gardener, who for several years had charge of the grounds
of the Tampa Bay hotel in the lifetime of the proprietor,
Mr,. i. B. Plant. Mrs. Fiiehe is still living.