Proprietor of the Pittsburg House, private boarding house on the corner of Fifth and Locust 1891

1850 Federal Census: Mason Co., IL
1870 Federal Census: Friends Creek, Macon Co., IL (living next door to parents)
1880 Federal Census: Denton Co., TX

Funeral Service of W. N. Bell. The funeral service of W. N. Bell took place Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the United Presbyterian church in this city. The church was crowded with friends of the deceased who gathered to pay the last sad rites to their esteemed friend. The sermon was preached by Rev. J. H. Gibson, after which the procession proceeded to the Mt. Olive cemetery, where the remains were laid in their last resting place. W. N. Bell was born in Manard county, Ill, Oct. 7, 1839. He was a son of Rev. D. R. Bell, a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. At 10 years of age he professed religion and joined the church, and was a devoted member and worker ever afterward. At the age of 19 he married and lived on a farm in Illinois until 1877, when he moved to Ft. Worth, Texas, where he engages in the painting business. In 1885 he moved to Eureka Springs, Ark., on account of ill health, and three years later he moved to Girard where he resided one year and moved to this city, where he died. He leaves a wife and four children. - The Pittsburg Daily Headlight, Pittsburg, Kansas, 22 Dec 1891, Tues, pg4.