Isaac T. Bell was born at Gallatin, Tenn., July 17, 1841, the son of
Gen. Tyree H. Bell, brigadier general under Forrest in the war.
Enlisting first as a member of Company H, 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
I. T. Bell was transferred to Company A, 12th Tennessee Infantry,
Col. T. H. Bell commanding, in 1862; and after the battle of
Chickamauga he was promoted to aid-de-camp and assigned to
Gen. Tyree Bell's brigade, Forrest's cavalry, in 1863, and served to the
end of the war. He twice wounded-in the arm at Tishomingo, and in the side at Bryce's Crossroads.
After the war Comrade Bell served eight years as County Court Clerk
Henderson County, Tenn., and located later at McKenzie.
He was married at Lexington, Tenn., in 1868 to Miss Seraphine Elizabeth
Smith, who survives him with the four children born in Tennessee-
three sons and a daughter. In the latter part of 1883 he removed his family
and located at Sanger. A son was born there who died as infant.
In 1886 he removed to Visalia and there served as clerk in the land
office under his father. In later years he was interested in the real estate
business and handled land office cases. U. C. V., and also served as
Adjutant of the Pacific Division, U. C. V. He was for years prominent
as an Odd Fellow, having joined the organization in 1866, and
throughout his life he was actively interested. He was Grand Senior
Warden of the State and would have become Grand Patriarch of the
order in a little more than a year. He was also a prominent Forester
from 1899 and served many years as its Financial Secretary.
As a citizen of Visalia none stood higher than Captain Bell.
He was an honest, sincere, big hatred man and a Christian, and was
universally loved and respected. All California Daughters remember the
beautiful welcome to Visalia that was given by Captain Bell as Commander
of Joe Johnson Camp when the annual convention of the california
Division was held there during the time that his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Cary
Dunlap, was President of the Division.
Captain Bell was one of the first subscribers to the Veteran in California,
and throughout the years of it existing his interest had not waned. His death occurred on June 3, 1914, and in his going there is the loss of one of the most
prominent and best-belove of the Confederate veterans.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, September, 1914.
Gen. Tyree H. Bell, brigadier general under Forrest in the war.
Enlisting first as a member of Company H, 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
I. T. Bell was transferred to Company A, 12th Tennessee Infantry,
Col. T. H. Bell commanding, in 1862; and after the battle of
Chickamauga he was promoted to aid-de-camp and assigned to
Gen. Tyree Bell's brigade, Forrest's cavalry, in 1863, and served to the
end of the war. He twice wounded-in the arm at Tishomingo, and in the side at Bryce's Crossroads.
After the war Comrade Bell served eight years as County Court Clerk
Henderson County, Tenn., and located later at McKenzie.
He was married at Lexington, Tenn., in 1868 to Miss Seraphine Elizabeth
Smith, who survives him with the four children born in Tennessee-
three sons and a daughter. In the latter part of 1883 he removed his family
and located at Sanger. A son was born there who died as infant.
In 1886 he removed to Visalia and there served as clerk in the land
office under his father. In later years he was interested in the real estate
business and handled land office cases. U. C. V., and also served as
Adjutant of the Pacific Division, U. C. V. He was for years prominent
as an Odd Fellow, having joined the organization in 1866, and
throughout his life he was actively interested. He was Grand Senior
Warden of the State and would have become Grand Patriarch of the
order in a little more than a year. He was also a prominent Forester
from 1899 and served many years as its Financial Secretary.
As a citizen of Visalia none stood higher than Captain Bell.
He was an honest, sincere, big hatred man and a Christian, and was
universally loved and respected. All California Daughters remember the
beautiful welcome to Visalia that was given by Captain Bell as Commander
of Joe Johnson Camp when the annual convention of the california
Division was held there during the time that his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Cary
Dunlap, was President of the Division.
Captain Bell was one of the first subscribers to the Veteran in California,
and throughout the years of it existing his interest had not waned. His death occurred on June 3, 1914, and in his going there is the loss of one of the most
prominent and best-belove of the Confederate veterans.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, September, 1914.
Isaac T. Bell was born at Gallatin, Tenn., July 17, 1841, the son of
Gen. Tyree H. Bell, brigadier general under Forrest in the war.
Enlisting first as a member of Company H, 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
I. T. Bell was transferred to Company A, 12th Tennessee Infantry,
Col. T. H. Bell commanding, in 1862; and after the battle of
Chickamauga he was promoted to aid-de-camp and assigned to
Gen. Tyree Bell's brigade, Forrest's cavalry, in 1863, and served to the
end of the war. He twice wounded-in the arm at Tishomingo, and in the side at Bryce's Crossroads.
After the war Comrade Bell served eight years as County Court Clerk
Henderson County, Tenn., and located later at McKenzie.
He was married at Lexington, Tenn., in 1868 to Miss Seraphine Elizabeth
Smith, who survives him with the four children born in Tennessee-
three sons and a daughter. In the latter part of 1883 he removed his family
and located at Sanger. A son was born there who died as infant.
In 1886 he removed to Visalia and there served as clerk in the land
office under his father. In later years he was interested in the real estate
business and handled land office cases. U. C. V., and also served as
Adjutant of the Pacific Division, U. C. V. He was for years prominent
as an Odd Fellow, having joined the organization in 1866, and
throughout his life he was actively interested. He was Grand Senior
Warden of the State and would have become Grand Patriarch of the
order in a little more than a year. He was also a prominent Forester
from 1899 and served many years as its Financial Secretary.
As a citizen of Visalia none stood higher than Captain Bell.
He was an honest, sincere, big hatred man and a Christian, and was
universally loved and respected. All California Daughters remember the
beautiful welcome to Visalia that was given by Captain Bell as Commander
of Joe Johnson Camp when the annual convention of the california
Division was held there during the time that his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Cary
Dunlap, was President of the Division.
Captain Bell was one of the first subscribers to the Veteran in California,
and throughout the years of it existing his interest had not waned. His death occurred on June 3, 1914, and in his going there is the loss of one of the most
prominent and best-belove of the Confederate veterans.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, September, 1914.
Gen. Tyree H. Bell, brigadier general under Forrest in the war.
Enlisting first as a member of Company H, 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
I. T. Bell was transferred to Company A, 12th Tennessee Infantry,
Col. T. H. Bell commanding, in 1862; and after the battle of
Chickamauga he was promoted to aid-de-camp and assigned to
Gen. Tyree Bell's brigade, Forrest's cavalry, in 1863, and served to the
end of the war. He twice wounded-in the arm at Tishomingo, and in the side at Bryce's Crossroads.
After the war Comrade Bell served eight years as County Court Clerk
Henderson County, Tenn., and located later at McKenzie.
He was married at Lexington, Tenn., in 1868 to Miss Seraphine Elizabeth
Smith, who survives him with the four children born in Tennessee-
three sons and a daughter. In the latter part of 1883 he removed his family
and located at Sanger. A son was born there who died as infant.
In 1886 he removed to Visalia and there served as clerk in the land
office under his father. In later years he was interested in the real estate
business and handled land office cases. U. C. V., and also served as
Adjutant of the Pacific Division, U. C. V. He was for years prominent
as an Odd Fellow, having joined the organization in 1866, and
throughout his life he was actively interested. He was Grand Senior
Warden of the State and would have become Grand Patriarch of the
order in a little more than a year. He was also a prominent Forester
from 1899 and served many years as its Financial Secretary.
As a citizen of Visalia none stood higher than Captain Bell.
He was an honest, sincere, big hatred man and a Christian, and was
universally loved and respected. All California Daughters remember the
beautiful welcome to Visalia that was given by Captain Bell as Commander
of Joe Johnson Camp when the annual convention of the california
Division was held there during the time that his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Cary
Dunlap, was President of the Division.
Captain Bell was one of the first subscribers to the Veteran in California,
and throughout the years of it existing his interest had not waned. His death occurred on June 3, 1914, and in his going there is the loss of one of the most
prominent and best-belove of the Confederate veterans.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, September, 1914.
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