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Dr. Marmaduke Bell, a skillful physician of Tabernacle, Tipton Co., Tenn., was born in Dickson County, Tenn., August 10, 1834, and is a son of Thomas and Mary J. (Bowen) Bell. The father was born in North Carolina, in 1805, and died in 1867. He moved to Dickson County with his parents when young, and farmed in that county very successfully the rest of his life. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The mother is a native of Tennessee, born in 1818, and is still living, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bell received a good education in big youth and in the fall of 1857 entered the medical department of the Nashville University, and received his diploma in the spring of 1859. After graduating he located at Chulahoma, Miss., and commenced the practice of medicine. In 1861 he entered the Confederate Army and was made captain of a Company, Seventeenth Mississippi Infantry, but on account of ill health was soon compelled to resign his commission and return home. In 1861 he located at Tabernacle and gave his time to his professional duties, soon building up an extensive practice and making an enviable reputation as a physician. May 17, 1865, he married Mrs. Sue H. (Foster) Ligon, a native of Haywood County, Tenn. Two daughters and a son were born to this marriage. Mrs. Bell died June 6, 1872, and January 20, 1875, Dr. Bell married Miss Annie E. Hunt, born in Tipton County, January 27, 1848. They have had two sons and a daughter. One son is dead. Politically Dr. Bell is a true Democrat and deeply interested in his party. He is not identified with any church, but is by preference of doctrine a Presbyterian. Mrs. Bell is an Episcopalian. They are highly esteemed in the social circles of their community.