Welch, Elizabeth Mary Bell, 1829-1876

Elizabeth Mary Bell was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on March 30, 1829. She was the daughter of Julius Bell and Elizabeth Carlins Bell. She graduated from the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847. Upon leaving Mount Holyoke, she married John Hopestill Welch. She had five children. She died in Hartford, Connecticut in 1876 at the age of forty-seven.

From the guide to the Welch papers MS 0775., 1846-1848., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)