The headstone of Major John Belli (1760-1809), Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was reinterred in 1911.
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Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.
This file appears in: Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek
Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek
In the summer of 1787, John O'Bannon surveyed a one-thousand acre parcel at the Mouth of Turkey Creek in what would become Scioto County, Ohio. O'Bannon selected these lands for Larkin Smith, a…