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From: "Susan Pena" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Transportation of Dead Family Members
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:15:15 -0500
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I have a family member who died in California and was transported, by train,
back to Chicago, Illionois and was buried there. She was young too. I
think the train made a difference in those days. Before that, you are
probably right in thinking it wasn't done too much. It cost money as well
as time and they really didn't "embalm" people like they do today either.
During the Civil War, they did transport hurt soldiers various places to
hospitals by train -- Cheraw, SC to New York City (the Bronx) is one that I
know about in my own family in March,1865.

Susan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bellis Genealogy" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:40 PM
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] John BELLIS m. Nellie WILLIAMSON


> Hello Chris,
>
> Thanks for this feedback...it tracks with what I was thinking: Nellie
> comes
> back to NJ after her husband's death.
>
> I too have been curious whether bodies were transported back to hometowns
> from distant frontier lands for burial. If anyone out there has examples
> of
> this having been done, please reply back. From a monetary, logistical,
> and
> organic point of view, it doesn't seem feasible. But if indeed such
> transport occurred, this would be a helpful piece of genealogical
> knowledge.
>
>
> In addition to the SAR's burial info, a BELLES correspondent of mine
> forwarded this link to me the other day. It states that Southington, OH,
> was originally called Bellestown, named after John BELLES:
> http://southington.k12.oh.us/school~1/school/chshistory/history.htm
>
> I presume this was the John BELLES who was married to Nellie WILLIAMSON
> because I have no other eligible BELLES/BELLESFELT candidates.
>
> Take care,
>
> Roz Bellis
> Alexandria VA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:54 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] John BELLIS m. Nellie WILLIAMSON
>
> Roz,
>
> I don't have the actual date of death for Nelly (Williamson) Bellis but in
> the Hunterdon County Democrat extracts found on Dennis Sutton's website <
> http://njsuttonfamily.org/Newspaper/paperhistory.htm>; is the following.
> April 1, 1840 Vol. 2 No. 33
> "Died on Monday last, in Rariton Township, Mrs. Nelly Bellis,
> widow of John Bellis, Sen. aged 86 years"
> Did she move back to NJ after John's death, maybe to live with one of the
> children? She's probably buried somewhere in Hunterdon County, I don't see
> them
> transporting
> a body back to Ohio in those times.
> Chris L. Skow
>
>
>
>
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