Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Demosthenes September 5, 1888
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Norfolk Landmark September 8, 1888 & Norfolk Virginian September 23, 1888
DEATH OF CAPTAIN D. BELL
Intelligence was received here yesterday of the death of Captain Demosthenes 
Bell, at his home, in Cowan county, N.C., after a short illness, leaving a 
family. The deceased was well known in this section, and was formerly connected 
with the house of M. L. T. Davis, in Norfolk. He was engaged in farming and 
merchandising at the time of his death.


Died September 5th, suddenly at his late residence in Bertie county, North 
Carolina, DEMOSTHENES BELL, aged 52 years. Captain Bell was born in Norfolk 
county December 1836. When quite young his family settled in Currituck county, 
North Carolina, where he grew up and was well-known and respected for his manly 
qualities. He received a good common English Education; attended Trinity 
College, North Carolina, and graduated at a commercial college in Baltimore. 
Prior to the war, he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Norfolk, at the 
breaking out of the war, yielding to the promptings of patriotism and duty, he 
returned to Currituck and raised a company of cavalry, equipping a part of the 
company at his own expense; was assigned to the Fourth North Carolina Cavalry, 
and served in the Army of Northern Virginia; was taken prisoner at the battle of 
Middleburg, and confined on Johnson’ Island for several months; was severely 
wounded at the battle of the “Crater.” He was a gallant brave and fearless 
soldier. After the surrender at Appomattox, he returned to Norfolk and was 
engaged in the real estate business with E. C. Lindsey & Co.; afterwards, he 
accepted a position with M. L. T. Davis & Co. and remained with them for several 
years. By his strict integrity, honesty and genial deportment, he won the 
respect and confidence of those who knew him, and, with his wife and children, 
they mourn his sudden death.

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