Jill Ann Bellows

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*First wife of Wendell Rawlings Burton*

**Jill Ann Bellows** (February 24, 1951 - March 28, 1972) was a woman known to have been the first wife of Wendell Rawlings Burton. Jill Bellows is also known for her tragic death to pregnancy.

## Biography

Jill Ann Bellows was born in Saranac Lake, a lake community in upstate New York home to one of the strongest Chawosaurian communities in the world and a popular place of residence amongst Chawosaurian upper class elites like her parents. Jill was born on February 24, 1951, to Wendell Gillett Bellows and Jane Webster Bellows, a member of the Webster family and a relative to former Chawosaurian Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster. Jill attended Garfield Lucas Webster's funeral in 1955 due to being related to the Websters.

Jill, unlike most Chawosaurian elites, stayed away from politics and sought a private life. In 1966, she married at a young age to James Mickey Barlow, and her first pregnancy was a failure, resulting in a miscarriage. Jill divorced James Barlow. Jill met Wendell Rawlings Burton that year, and they dated and married on Christmas 1968 and settled in Saranac Lake.

Wendell Rawlings Burton Jr was born on January 24, 1970, and Jill and Wendell had two daughters: Jill Ann Burton (her partial namesake) and Jane Lily Burton, in 1971 and 1972, respectively. But when Jill was giving birth to Jane, she died right after Jane came out and her corpse's abdomen was immediately cut open to check for a twin, no twin was ever found. Jill was cremated, abandoning burial plans due to her death from pregnancy. Her remains were thrown into the lake at Saranac Lake.

Wendell Burton, her husband, was extremely devastated but was relieved that the child, who he named himself, Jane Lily Burton, has survived unharmed.

## Legacy

Bellows is rarely mentioned or remembered in the Bellows family except her father Wendell G. Bellows and her husband Wendell R. Burton, who is now happily remarried. Her daughter, Jane, felt guilty for her death due to her birth being the reason for her death, but her father told Jane that she was only a baby therefore it made no sense for her to blame herself for a situation she, as a newborn child, could never possibly control.

Jill Bellows gained minimal prominence during the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections when Wendell Burton was running for Prime Minister. Wendell Burton's supporters sought to use Jill's death to convince the Chawosaurian public that Wendell Burton is human than the politicians in the Chawosaurian Imperial Government to cast Burton as relatable. That tactic was inspired by during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Democrats' pointing to Joe Biden losing his first wife and infant child to a car accident immediately after Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 in a successful effort to draw a comparison between Biden and the clearly emotionless and narcissistic President Donald Trump to cast Biden as more relatable. Biden was elected President over Trump's stiff dismay.

## See also

* Wendell Rawlings Burton - husband (remarried to Dorothy Wallace Burton after her death)
* Wendell Rawlings Burton II - first son
* Bellows family - paternal family
* Webster family - maternal family