Shell Family History & Genealogy

History

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Name Origin

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Spellings & Pronunciations

Schell. The earliest records of our known Shells are in Benton County, Alabama where a Mary Shell married a Patrick Cash in1842 then in 1850 W.P. Shell was living with his assumed mother M. Cash believed to have been the Mary Shell who married Patrick Cash along with her believed children James Cash and Elizabeth Cash. and a couple of other people. W.P. Shell first married in 1854 in Talladega County, Alabama to his first wife Jane Wilkins. In 1860 W. Parks Shell was living with his mother Mary Cash and his supposed actual birth father Obediah Sanders and two children of Wm Parks Shell by their then deceased mother. W.P. Shell remarried in Carroll County, Georgia in 1861. He and his family mmbers are all emunerated as SHELL in the 1870 and 1880 censuses of Calhoun County, Alabama and he disappears from records after a court record for his failure to repay a loan to plant his crop in 1882 when he could not be found: Shell. It seems that after WWI, some of his grandsons, began spelling the name SCHELL, at least some told that people in the army told them that that was the correct way to spell it: perhaps if they were GERMAN whom they were fighting in WWI.

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Early Shells

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