John B. Duret, one of the very early pioneers, who operated a trading post near the mouth of Rock Creek, in what is now known as French Post Park, in 1820, and who came to the mouth of the Eel to act as clerk for John Tipton, the Indian agent, married Elizabeth, one of Bell’s daughters.
Maria Duret, their daughter, married Dudley H. Chase, a prominent lawyer of Logansport and long a judge of Cass County Circuit Court. Mrs. Chase Stewart is a great-granddaughter of Major Bell.
