Bell, Raymond Martin, 1907-1999

Overview This collection consists of a quarterly journal and copies of unrecorded Monongalia County, WV wills. The journal, Keyhole, a quarterly publication of the Genealogical Society of Southwestern Pennsylvania, features two articles which discuss West Virginia residents: "Unrecorded Monongalia County, West Virginia wills," Ruth E. Renton and Raymond Martin Bell and "McCollock of Ohio County, West Virginia," Raymond Martin Bell. In "Unrecorded Monongalia County, West Virginia Wills" the authors...

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"Methodism in the Wheeling, West Virginia, District, 1785-1910" was written by Raymond Martin Bell in 1963 while Bell was attending Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. This three-page history documents the Methodist preachers in the Wheeling area from the first circuit riders in 1784 to the preachers in the area in 1810.

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Five short mimeographed essays authored by Raymond Martin Bell of Washington and Jefferson College. Included are: "The Townships of Mother Cumberland", "From James to Richard: The Nixon Line", "Redstone Circuit in 1786", "Early Methodist Church Buildings", and "The Journal of Robert Ayres: Methodist Circuit Rider".