Lest NSDAR data claim still more victims . . . The first two sets of data recited claim descendancy from RWS Francis Bell (1750-1838) via his son, Joseph Scott Bell. o In both cases, Joseph's birth year is cited as 1774, whereas reliable data -- to include his tombstone ar Mars Hill cemetery, Forsyth Co., I think -- place his birth year as 1794. In both cases, also, the birth year of Joseph's wife is erroneously cited as 1773, whereas she, too, was born in 1794. o As for Francis Bell: Both sets of data state conclusively that Francis Bell was/is "buried in the cemetery of Liberty Methodist Church . . ." While this burial site for Francis Bell is rather widely accepted as very likely, to the best of my knowledge/belief -- as a 3d gr-grandson, born and raised barely five miles from the site -- no one has been able to demonstrate with any certainty that his mortal remains were interred there. On a more minor point: So far as I've been able to determine, at the time of its establishment Liberty Church -- located on the Jackson-Hall Co. line -- was non-denominational; it was only much later that it became Methodist. So far as it's known, Francis Bell lived and died a Presbyterian. In re John Phinazee, father-in-law of Joseph Scott Bell -- and also a 3d gr-grandfather of mine: His RW service is a matter of record, but I'm aware of no reason to believe that he "was at the surrender of Yorktown . . ." My 'soapbox' is in the shop . . . so I'd merely caution that data gleaned from NSDAR applications should in no way be presumed to be wholly accurate nor accepted at face value. --- David Bell