In Memoriam, Raymond Martin Bell, FGSP

In Memoriam Raymond Martin Bell, FGSP TT IS WITH DEEP REGRET that we acknowledge the death on 12 April A1999, at Iowa City, Iowa, of Raymond M. Bell, a member of the Genea¬ logical Society of Pennsylvania since May of 1975 and an elected Fellow of GSP since 1980. He was also a Fellow of the National Genealogical Society. Born 21 March 1907 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Frank Thompson Bell and Marion Estelle Seibert. After having received a bache¬ lor’s degree from Dickinson College in 1928, a master’s degree from Syracuse University in 1930, and his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1937, Bell taught at Washington andjefferson College from 1937 to 1975. On 28 March 1942, he married Lillian Mae Kelly. They were parents of three children: Carol Ann Bell, Martha Jean (Bell) Buder, and Edward Frank Bell. Throughout his long career, Professor Bell worked diligendy in the field of Pennsylvania genealogical research, particularly in central and western Pennsylvania research. His knowledge of both Pennsylvania German and Scotch-Irish families, their backgrounds and migrations, was extensive. The thoroughness of Bell’s research was made available to a wide range of read¬ ers and researchers through the publication of his findings in pamphlet and monograph form, readily accessible to libraries. He contributed numerous articles to a variety of genealogical publications Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, NGS Quarterly, and American Genealogist, among others. His articles included detailed histories of individual families, as well as source materials such as tax lists, land grants, estate and deed records, frontier petitions, militia rolls, intestate records, and church records. — 81