Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, William A., 1954 

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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BELL

DEPUTY SHERIFF W.A. BELL DIES OF HEART ATTACK

   Funeral services for William Augustus Bell, 56, of Courtland were conducted 
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the Courtland Methodist Church, with 
the pastor, Rev. C.A. McCormick, Jr., and Rev. L.M. Kanipe, pastor the 
Courtland Baptist Church, officiating.

   Interment was in Riverside Cemetery, the active pallbearers being R.H. 
Brooks, L.A. Clements, T.P. Gilbert, H.B. McLemore, Jr., G. Hinson Parker, 
Jr., Elmo Pittman, Frank Tymosko and H. Paige Watkinson.  Honorary pallbearers 
were members of the Men’s Bible Class of the Courtland Methodist Church.

   Mr. Bell, Deputy Sheriff of Southampton County for the past quarter-
century, died suddenly about 10:45 o’clock Monday night on a farm near 
Drewryville, where he had gone to make an arrest.  He had not been in the best 
of health for some time, and carried with him for emergency use a bottle of 
nitro-glycerine tablets.  Feeling ill, he attempted to talk over the car radio 
with the Sheriff’s office in Courtland, which was closed for the night.  The 
Sherriff’s office in Emporia, however, caught his plea for assistance and 
within a [...*] arrived on the scene.

   Edwards found Mr. Bell lying on the ground some 30 feet from his car, with 
his gun still in its holster.  Beside his body was the bottle of tablets, 
indicating that Mr. Bell had tried to obtain relief from his suffering.  There 
was no evidence of foul play, according to Sheriff T.B. Bell, Deputy Sheriff 
Paige Watkinson and State Trooper J.B. Barksdale, who conducted an 
investigation.

   The deceased was born near [...*] county, a son of the late William 
Dickerson and Elizabeth Briggs Bell.  He was the husband of Mrs. Edith Beale 
Bell, who survives him.

   Mr. Bell was twice Grand Chancellor of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of 
Pythias, and was a member of the Courtland Methodist Church and the Courtland 
Ruritan Club.

   In addition to his wife he is arrived by one son, William A. Bell, Jr.; one 
brother, Sheriff Thomas Briggs Bell of Courtland; six sisters, Mrs. Minnie 
Seal and Misses Eunice and Mary Bell of Richmond, Mrs. Fannie Grizzard of 
Courtland, Miss Elizabeth Bell of Coeburn, and Miss Pauline Bell of Fort 
Defiance, Ariz.; and an uncle, Thomas Bell of Wakefield.


Deputy Sheriff William Augustus BELL, of Courtland, 
d. 11 Oct 1954, near Drewryville, age 56, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 21/21A*), Courtland, 
   13 Oct 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 14, 1954 

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

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," July 12, 1929) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400w7ob.txt 


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