Family
Bell married his first wife, Sally Dickinson, in 1818. They had five children, Mary, John, David, Fanny, and Sally, before she died in 1832. Sally Dickinson was the sister of Congressman David W. Dickinson, the granddaughter of Hardy Murfree, and the aunt of author Mary Noailles Murfree. In 1835, Bell married Jane Erwin Yeatman, a prominent socialite and widow of wealthy businessman Thomas Yeatman.
Confederate Congressman Edwin Augustus Keeble (1807–1868) was a son-in-law of Bell, married to his daughter, Sally. Bell's great-grandson, also named Edwin Augustus Keeble (1905–1979), was a prominent Nashville-area architect, his best known design being the city's first skyscraper, the Life & Casualty Tower.
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