Irene May Bell ^{1 2}

   Another name for Irene was Serena May Bell.³

   FamilySearch ID: L5T6-81Y.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Arkansas City, Cowley, KS. ³ Peter Beecher, carpenter, 49, was living with wife Elizabeth, 55; son George A., carpenter, 25; Frank J., laborer, 19; Emma A., 16. Also with them: niece Serena M. Bell, 5; and brothers-in-law William S. Ridenour, physician, 46, and James Ridenour, jeweler merchant, 39. Peter and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. Frank, Emma, and Serena were born in Indiana. Everyone else was born in Ohio. Elizabeth, William and James Ridenour's father was from Maryland, their mother from Pennsylvania.

2. Kansas State census in 1885 in Arkansas City, Cowley, KS. ⁴ Peter Beecher, gardner, 53, was living with Elizabeth, 58; G. A. 29 carpenter; R. F., 22, stone man; Daughter, 20, miliner; S. M. Bill, 10, and W. S. Ridenaur, 50, vineyardist. Peter was born in Pennsylvania, Elizabeth and W.S. in Ohio. [The column to indicate where they were living before Kansas is blank.].

3. Cause of Death: coronary thrombosis, 11 Feb 1944, Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX. ¹

4. Residence: on 11 Feb 1944 in Chattanooga, Comanche, OK. ¹

Irene married Harvey Thomas McCoy. (Harvey Thomas McCoy was born on 4 Jan 1876 in Walton Township, Sumner, KS,⁵ died in 1962 ⁵ and was buried in Walters, Cotton, OK ⁵.)