WILSON, WAYNE AND NASH COUNTIES, NC - JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. FAMILY JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. and DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK FAMILY, 1852 - 1950 JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. and his first wife, DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK FAMILY, 1852 - 1950 living in WAYNE, WILSON AND NASH COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA. John Lindsey Bell, Sr. and his second wife Lula Rose [1874 - 1955] moved from Black Creek Township, Wilson County, NC to Stony Creek Township, Nash County, NC between 1893 and 1896. LINEAGE OF: EARL P. BELL, JR., NELL PROCTOR McCASKILL, STEVE PROCTOR, CORA YOUNG, MARY WORRELL, ANN YOUNG, ROSE BELL, WILLIAM BELL, MARY ALICE BELL, YATES PROCTOR (deceased), EDWARD DUNN, WAYNE DUNN and JO ANN DUNN ************************************************* HUSBAND'S NAME: JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. [ggrandfather - #8] BORN: 20 May 1855 WHERE: Black Creek Township, Wilson Co., NC MARRIED: 27 January 1881 WHERE: Turner Joyner's House, Black Ck. Township, Wilson County, NC DIED: 10 June 1915 WHERE: Farm between Dorches and Benvenue, Edgecombe County, North Carolina BURIED: *Ricks-Bell Graveyard - Oak Level Township, originally buried in 1915 on his last farm, off of Hwy #43 between Dortches and Benvenue, Nash County, NC, reinterned to the Ricks-Bell Graveyard, 1996. OCCUPATION: Farmer, Land Speculator - Nash County, NC JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR.'s second wife was LULA ROSE [Born: 2 February 1874. died: 8 February 1955] [Lula Rose Bell was born in Black Creek Twp., Wilson County, NC. Died: Oak Level Twp., Nash Co., NC] FATHER OF JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR was: JAMES HENRY BELL, SR. [1828-1865]t [gggrandfather - #16] BORN: 1825 WHERE: Nahunta Twp., Wayne County, NC MARRIED: about: 1854 WHERE: Edgecombe County, NC DIED: 24 May 1865 WHERE: Confederate Hospital, Lynchburg, Virginia BURIED: Confederate Graveyard, Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia MOTHER OF JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. was: LUCINDA EVANS [1827 – 1906] [gggrandmother - #17] BORN: 1827 WHERE: Edgecombe County, NC DIED: 19 January 1906 WHERE: Stantonsburg Twp., Wilson Co., NC BURIED: Town of Black Creek Cemetery, Wilson County, NC *************************************************** WIFE OF JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR. was: DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK [ggrandmother - #9] z When Born: 24 February 1853 Where: Nahunta Twp., Wayne County, NC When Died: 1887 Where: Black Creek Township, Wilson Co. NC Where Buried: Black Ck. Twp, Wilson Co.,NC [specific graveyard has not been identified; my best guess is the old Bell cemetery on James Henry Bell's place, near the town of Black Creek, Wilson County, NC land purchased by a Mr. Tomlinson, who owned a country story in Black Creek [1973] and remembered seeing tombstones down on a creek bearing the name of "Bell."] OCCUPATION: Housewife, Cook FATHER OF DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK was: JESSE AYCOCK [1825 – 1901] x [gggrandfather - #18] BORN: 24 June 1825 WHERE: Nahunta Twp., Wayne County, NC MARRIED: November, 1850 WHERE: Wayne County, NC DIED: 21 March 1901 WHERE: Cross Roads Twp., Wilson County, NC MOTHER OF DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK was: EDITH AYCOCK [1830 – 1854]y [gggrandmother - #19] BORN: 8 November 1830 WHERE: Wayne County, NC DIED: 24 June 1854 WHERE: Nahunta Twp., Wayne County, NC Names of Other Wives [if any]: JESSE AYCOCK’S second wife was: MARY PIKE ************************************************ CHILDREN OF JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR AND DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK 1. ALBERT TURNER BELL [grandfather - #4] BORN: 6 June 1882 WHERE: Black Ck.Twp., Wilson County, NC MARRIED: 14 December 1904 WHERE: Nashville Township, Nash County, NC DIED: 19 July 1946 WHERE: Nashville Township, Nash County, NC BURIED: Forest Hill Cemetery, Nashville, NC FIRST WIFE: MARY [MAMIE] WILLIAM HARPER [grandmother #5] BORN: 24 July 1884 WHERE: Nashville Township, Nash County, NC DIED: 11 November 1941 WHERE: Parkview Hospital, Rocky Mt., Edgecombe County, NC BURIED: Forest Hill Cemetery, Nashville, NC ALBERT TURNER BELL’S second wife: EULA WHITLEY [born: January, 1900] ********************************** 2. JOSEPH ADRIAN BELL [Uncle Adie] BORN: 24 March 1885 WHERE: Black Creek Twp., Wilson County, NC MARRIED: 17 February 1915 WHERE: Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, NC DIED: 2 Sept. 1950 WHERE: Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, NC BURIED: Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mounty, NC WIFE OF JOSEPH ADRIAN BELL was: MINNIE GARRIS BORN: 24 April 1897 WHERE: Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, NC DIED: December, 1982 WHERE: Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, Nc BURIED: Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mt., NC ************************************* 3. EDITH IRMA BELL BORN: 1887 WHERE: Black Creek Twy, Wilson County, NC DIED: 1887 WHERE: Black Ck.,Twp., Wilson County, NC ***************************************** CORRESPONDENCE to: earl.bell3@gmail.com ORIGINAL FILE at: http://earlpbell.googlepages.com/johnlindseyanddellajosephineaycockfamily SUBJECT MATTER FOOTNOTES: THIS INFORMATION obtained from: [1] family members especially EDITH IRMA [BELL] PROCTOR [1905 – 1977] Cokey Road, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, NC and CHARLES LINDSEY BELL [1920 – 1993]; [2] United States Census Records, 1850 to 1930; [3] State of North Carolina Birth and Death Records; and [4] Wilson and Nash County, NC Cemetery Records. *JOHN LINDSEY BELL, SR., his second wife: LULA ROSE BELL and their son: JAMES THOMAS BELL were first buried in a family graveyard, between two barns, on John Lindsey Bell Sr.’s last farm, off Highway #43, between Dortches and Benvenue, Edgecombe County, NC until 1996, when the efforts of his grandson RAYMOND BELL negotiated with the land owners to have their remains reinterned to The Ricks-Bell Graveyard, about a mile east of the intersection of Old Carriage Road and Oak Level Road in Oak Level Township, Nash County, NC, on the south side of Oak Level Road. t. JAMES HENRY BELL, SR. was born in Nahunta Township, Wayne County, NC in 1828, in a part of the township that became Black Creek Township, Wilson County, NC when the latter was created in 1855. In the United States Census of 1860, he is identified as living in Black Creek Township, Wilson County, North Carolina. On the afternoon, of May 3, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, he was wounded in the right arm, transported to Lynchburg, Virginia for medical treatment, as were most of the Confederate men injuried in the battle, and died from complications on May 24, 1864. He is buried in Confederate Burial Ground in the Old Cemetery, next to where the hospital stood in Lynchburg, Virginia. For our family, hallowed ground indeed! o. LUCINDA EVANS was born in Edgecombe County, NC in 1827, in a section that became Black Creek Township in Wilson County, NC when that county was created in 1855 from parts of Wayne, Nash, Johnston and Edgecombe Counties, NC. z. Born 24 February 1852, DELLA JOSEPHINE AYCOCK was never listed, in the United States Census Records from 1860 to 1880, as living with her father, JESSE AYCOCK and his second wife MARY PIKE AYCOCK. In fact, after her mother EDITH AYCOCK dies in 1854, she appears, as an eight year old girl, in the 1860 Census living in Nahunta Township, Wayne County, NC and her father JESSE AYCOCK has moved to Black Creek Township in Wilson County, NC with his second wife. Thus, even at seven years old in 1860 she lives with J. L. Barnes in Wayne County, NC; appears in the 1870 census, when she was seventeen, living with Turner Joyner in 1880, when she is twenty-seven. Why? My best guess is that her step- mother MARY PIKE AYCOCK refused to allow her to live with them because Della Aycock’s parents JESSE and his first wife EDITH AYCOCK AYCOCK were first cousins. x. JESSE AYCOCK was born 24 June 1825 in Nahunta Township, Wayne County, NC. In the 1850s, he moves to Black Creek Township, Wilson, NC with his second wife MARY PIKE. In fact, in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses, he is listed as living in Black Creek Township, Wilson County, North Carolina. y. EDITH AYCOCK, the first wife of JESSE AYCOCK. b. 8 November 1830. m. November, 1850. d. 24 June 1854. She was born and lived her life in Nahunta Township, Wayne County, NC ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Earl P. Bell, Jr. - earl.bell3@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ Also, can be viewed online at either: http://earlpbell.googlepages.com/johnlindseyanddellajosephineaycockfamily http://docs.google.com/Edit?docID=ddd98cwk_23f23wb9c8