Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Jesse E., 1950 

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JESSE ELDRIDGE BELL 

Funeral Today For Jesse Bell 

  SMITHFIELD, June 9. - Funeral services for Jesse E. Bell, who died Wednesday 
afternoon at his home in Surry County, are to be held this afternoon at 3:30 
o’clock at tha Old Brick Church Cemetery at Macon's [sic; Bacon's] Castle. 

  Pallbearers are to be Blanks Moody, Beverly Jones, Bruce Holloman, Ira 
Price, Ernest McCoy and Fred Council.  Friends of the family are to serve as 
honorary pallbearers.

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JESSE E. BELL, 67, BURIED FRIDAY AT BACONS CASTLE 

  Jesse E. Bell, 67, died at his home in Surry Co. Wednesday afternoon after 
a long illness.  He was a lifelong resident of Surry County and a well-known 
merchant.

  Mr. Bell was a member of Bacons Castle Baptist Church.

  Besides his wife Mrs. Minnie Britt Bell, he is survived by two daughters, 
Mrs. Garnett Clark, of Smithfield, and Mrs. Ray Cofer of Hopewell; two sons, 
Sgt. Eldridge W. Bell, USA, Fort Belvoir, and Sgt. Willie J. Bell, USA, of 
Washington, D.C.; four step-children, two grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. 
Sallie Bailey, of Wakefield.

  The funeral procession left the Bullock Funeral Home at 2:45 p.m. Friday 
for services at the grave in Old Brick Cemetery in Bacon's Castle at 3:30 p.m. 
Officiating was the Rev. J.A. Cales, former pastor.

  Pallbearers were Blanks Moody, Beverly Jones,  Bruce Holloman, Ira Price, 
Ernest McCoy and Fred Councill.


Jesse Eldridge BELL, general-store merchant, 
b. 11 Nov 1882*, Surry Co., d. 7 Jun 1950, at home, Surry Co., 
interred in Old Brick Church Cemetery*, Bacons Castle, 9 Jun 1950, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 54, June 9, 1950, p. 1, col. 8; 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 33, No. 3, June 14, 1950, p. 1, col. 3; 
   *posted with Find a Grave Mem. #193155070, by Henry May 

*Find a Grave gives Jesse Eldrige, b. 11 Oct 1882, but stone shows 
   Jesse E., Nov. 11.  (FaG Mem. #204363107)  

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. #14880 (Cobham #8), which gives 
   sn/o Jacob Eldridge & Alice James Bell; bu. Lawn's Creek, Surry Co. 

The "Old Brick Church" near Bacons Castle was indeed the Lawn's Creek 
   Parish Church, which burned in 1868.  Find a Grave.com also calls this 
   Lower Surry Cemetery. 

Apparently there was also a Colonial-era Lawn's Creek Parish Church, 
   on or near Hog's Island. 

For more information & photos, see the Surry Co. Historical Society's 
   Historical Churches webpage: 
   http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschsm/histchurch.html 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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