Halifax County NcArchives Obituaries.....Bell, Joshua Claudius 1950
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 02-03-1950, P. 10
JOSHUA CLAUDIUS BELL

   Joshua Claudius Bell, 63, of 159 Chautauqua Avenue, Portsmouth, died at one 
o’clock Thursday morning, January 26, in the Veterans Facility at Kecoughtan. He 
was a native of Scotland Neck, N.C., the son of the late Joshua and Mrs. Julia 
Hyman Bell.

   Prior to the first World War, of which he was a veteran, he resided in 
Capron, where he was in the employ of the late J.E. Drewry. He was the brother 
of W.S. Bell, who also formerly resided in Capron.

   Mr. Bell had lived for the past 20 years in Portsmouth, for a part of which 
time he was in the coal and wood business in Port Norfolk. He was a member of 
Broad Street Methodist Church.

   Surviving him are his brother, W.S. Bell of Portsmouth; three sisters, Mrs. 
R.L. Powell of Woodland, N.C., Mrs. W.H. Jenkins of Lewiston, N.C., and Mrs. 
R.P. Daughtrey of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and several nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services for Mr. Bell were conducted at 11:30 Saturday morning from 
the Snelling Funeral Home in Portsmouth, followed by interment in Olive Branch 
Cemetery.


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