Description
Joseph Bell: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company G, Private. Died May 30, 1914, at Hydro, Oklahoma.
✦ Invalid Pension: #275,055, Certificate #496,037
(Researcher's note: Joseph Bell enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on February 7, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company G.
On October 31, 1866, Anna E. Hayes of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #10 for enlisted slave Joseph Bell and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Hayes claimed she had acquired title by “…the said slave Joseph Bell was inherited by the claimant Anna E. Hays from her father John M. Hays (note: John M. Hayes died September 12, 1857.”
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
3/26/1879