Paul family.

Bela Paul (August 21, 1792- April 17, 1863) was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He married Mary Elizabeth Briggs (July 7, 1796- May 3, 1841) of Keene, New Hampshire, on November 20, 1817. Bela and Mary Briggs Paul had four children: Julius Barton Paul (August 15, 1818- July 3, 1875), William Patterson Paul(December 18, 1824-September 3, 1878), Mary Stiles Paul (b. January 26, 1830), and Henry Strobridge Paul (b. November 26, 1831).

William Patterson Paul graduated in 1843 from Norwich University and soon after moved south. He lived in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate army. He died of yellow fever in Memphis in 1878.

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