William H. Bellis and Harriet McCall

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Husband William H. Bellis ¹

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           Born: 3 Feb 1849 - Riegelsville, Warren Co, NJ 1
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         Father: Philip Bellis (1804-1848) 1
         Mother: Rosanna Sailor (1807-1889) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Mar 1877 2

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Wife Harriet McCall ²

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           Born:  - Salem Twp, Clarion Co, PA
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         Father: John McCall (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherine Ralston (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M John N. Bellis ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 3 Apr 1878 2
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           Died: Bef 1919 - Indiana
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         Spouse: Gertrude Priscilla Sheffer (      -      ) 2 3

         Spouse: Marie B. Dreibelbis (1879-1956) 2 4
           Marr: 1909 - ? Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - William H. Bellis

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His father died when he was six months of age, but the mother kept her family together, each in turn as they grew old enough contri­buting to the family purse. He attended the public school, but when a boy drove mules on the canal tow path that traversed that part of New Jersey. He worked on the canal until he became captain of a canal boat and freighted to the cities at either end of the canal. At the age of seventeen years he came to Pennsyl­vania going to Oil City in the spring of 1866, where he spent four years in that oil field as pumper and tool dresser. He then until 1876 was in the Butler field drilling oil wells. In the latter year he came to Clarion County, mar­ried and still followed the oil fields, but had now become a contractor of oil well drilling. He maintained his home in Clarion county after his marriage, but his business took him to the oil fields of West Virginia, where he spent several years, and was six months in Indian Territory. He prospered as a con­tractor. In 1897 he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in Salem township, known locally as the “Findley farm.” He rented his farm out and after 1887 had his residence in Salem. His home there was burned in 1893, after which another dwell­ing was erected. In addition to his contract­ing he operated several wells and was a producer. He was a stalwart Republican, be­longed to the Masonic order and the Macca­bees. [GPHAV, 934]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 934.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 935.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1009.

4 Mr. & Mrs. Richard McKean, The Family of Abraham and Hannah Gilger Mull (Mulberry Grove, IL: Self-published, no date).