Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Thomas B., 1961 

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THOMAS BRIGGS BELL

HOST OF FRIENDS ATTEND LAST RITES FOR T.B. BELL

   COURTLAND -  Thomas Briggs Bell, 75, retired sheriff of Southampton County 
was buried Sunday in Riverside Cemetery.

   A host of friends and County officials attended the funeral services at 3 
p.m. at Courtland Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. C.W. Gibson, Jr., 
pastor, assisted by the Rev. Otis Gilliam, a former pastor.

   Pallbearers were H.B. McLemore, Jr., G.H. Parker, Jr., Tom Turner, Ryland 
Brooks, Otis Joyner, Paige Watkinson, William H. Bell and Fred Barker.

   Mr. Bell died Friday morning in a Richmond hospital after a short illness.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Myrtle Gardner Bell and a son of William D. and 
Mrs. Elizabeth Briggs Bell of Southampton County.

   He was a steward of Courtland Methodist Church and member of the Methodist 
Men’s Club.  He also was past master of Courtland Masonic Lodge 85; past 
president of Veterans of World War I USA Barracks 1162, Southampton; and a 
member of Courtland Ruritan Club.

   He became deputy sheriff of Southampton County in 1921 and sheriff in March 
1926.  He served the county 38 years.

   Besides his widow, surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Katherine Martin of 
Huntington, N.Y.; six sisters, Mrs. Fannie Grizzard of Courtland; Misses Mary 
Bell, Eunice Bell, Elizabeth Bell, and Mrs. Minnie Seal of Richmond; and Miss 
Pauline Bell of Talihina, Okla.; and two grandchildren of Huntington, N.Y.


Thomas Briggs BELL, retired sheriff of Southampton Co., WW-I veteran, 
d. 3 Feb 1961, Richmond, age 75, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 44*), Courtland, 13 Jan 1961, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 6, 1961, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 


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