Tyrus Bell Probate Documents - Part 2 Contributed by: Lois Bell Pfannenstiel ****************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************************** http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************* Noxubee Court Records, volume E, Page 259 Judge Reuben Ruff A.A. Bell, execturix of Tyrus Bell. Will of Tyrus Bell states that when any of his children becomes of age, or married, he is "entitled to negroes to value of two thousand dollars." A.A. Bell states that her son Joshua Bell has married. Also shows daughter Susannah married a Wilkins. A.A. Bell has given these two children "negroes" and is asking the commissioners to value and report on both above causes. Filed 7 January 1856 and recorded 16 December 1856 Page 291 Adaline A. Bell, executrix of Tyrus Bell, sold "one negro boy named Perry" in January 1855 to J J Beauchamp for $800. and "one negro Alice" for $990. Record provides listing of negroes hired out, to whom, and amounts recieved. Three were hired out to William M. Bell, January 7, 1854 Sworn and subscribed 7 January 1856 by James Gray, Justice of the Peace. In 1856 Adaline Bell hired out additional "negroes" to Joshua Bell and William Bell.