Aquilla Belt Jr. (1808 - 1893)

Born 23 Feb 1808 in Licking Township, Licking, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Henrietta Elizabeth (Lewis) Belt — married about 1830 in Ohio, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Feb 1893 at age 84 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Belt Name Study.

• Aquilla was born in 1808. He died in 1893.

• Parents: Aquilla Belt 1780 - 1848 and Mary Polly (Inscho) Belt 1787 - 1848. They were married 2/29/1804 in Fairfield, Ohio.

• Spouse: Henrietta Elizabeth Lewis 1812 - 1892. They were married 4/11/1830 in Licking, Ohio. Findagrave #30452244

• Children:

1. James Belt 3/26/1831 - 3/261831

• Died as an infant

2. Carleton Lewis Belt 1832 - 1915

• Married Mary Jane Hayes 1838 - 1912

3. Mary Ann Belt 1834 - 1839

• Died @ 5 yrs old

4. Cordelia Belt 1836 - 1838

• Died @ 2 yrs old

5. Elizabeth Belt 5/7/1838 - 3/271839

• Died as a baby

6. George Washington Belt 1842 - 1920

• Married Mahala Logsdon 1849 - 1920

7. Anna Catherine (Belt) Richmond 1845 - 1931

• Married Francis Marion Richmond 1844 - 1926

8. Ebenezer Clark Belt 1846 - 1926

9. Mary Matilda (Belt) Nicholson 1849 - 1928

• Married Samuel Wesley Nicholson 1854 - 1937

10. Eliza Jane (Belt) Brooks 1855 - 1927

• Married Leonard Benjamin Brooks 1860 - 1918

Sources

• Aquilla is buried at the Kint Cemetery in Hazleton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA. His page lists and has links to his parents, siblings, spouse, 5 children. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30452232/aquilla-belt#add-to-vc

• Aquila Belt: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHSQ-BKM

• ^[1]

He married Henrietta Elizabeth Lewis about 1829. The family was in Kosciusko County, Indiana, in 1840.

• ^[2]

• Mashall Trussell, presumably his brother-in-law, was next-door in that census.

They were residing in Superior Township, Buchanan, Iowa in 1860.^[3] At that time, the family consisted of:

Aquilla Belt M 52 Ohio

Henrietta Belt F 48 Va

Ebeneezer Belt M 20 Ind

Geo W Belt M 17 Ind

Cath Belt F 15 Ind

May M Belt F 10 Ind

Eliza J Belt F 5 Iowa

• They had moved to Jasper County by 1870,

^[4] and Iowa County by 1880.

• ^[5]

Aquilla and Henrietta are alone and in Byron, Buchanan County in 1885. ^[6]

Aquilla is buried in Kint Cemetery in Hazleton, Iowa. ^[7]

• Ancestry Family Trees

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Belt-242 created through the import of Steve Sanders family tree_2011-08-28.ged on Aug 30, 2011 by Steve Sanders.