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Illness Proves Fatal to Confederate Veteran
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NINETY - YEAR OLD CITIZEN CAME TO THIS SECTION OF TEXAS OVER SEVENTY YEARS AGO
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James A. Bell, age 90, a Confederate Veteran, died at his near Kosse at
eight o'clock Saturday morning of influenza and was buried at three o'clock
Sunday afternoon in the Bell Family Cemetery.
Deceased came to Texas from South Carolina in 1854 and had resided in the Blue
Ridge and Kosse sections ever since. He served in the Confederate Army
during the war between the states.
Surviving are three sons, Robert and Albert of Kosse and John Bell of Spokane,
Wash., and two daughters, Mrs. Jim Harper of Kosse and Mrs. Lily Kilcupp of
Spokane, Wash.; also one sister, Mrs. V. E. Cleaver of Grosebeeck.
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My Notes:
James Augustus Bell was born in Anderson Co. SC on 31 May 1842, died on 29
December 1928. (this death date came from the Families of Falls
County book, while his Confed. Pension Application has his date of death
28 Dec 1928). If the Obit is right and he died on Saturday and was buried
on Sunday, it would have to be Dec 29th as death date, and Dec 30th as burial
date.
Son of Samuel Bell and Anna Stevenson.
Husband of Amanda M. Erskine (mar: 7 Sept 1861 in Falls Co..)
Buried in the Bell-Garrett or Garrett Cemetery.
Submited by
Linda Fisher Dintino
Searching: Paternal> Fisher,Boshears, Dabney, Morgan,Tn -Tx
Maternal>Bell, Stevenson, Erskine, Todd, Pool(e), Coursey
Husband>Dintino, Griffin, Jones, McCurdy
