Kate once "checked on" Jesse Bell and told Lucy Bell he had returned safely from a business trip and was at his home reading a book. Upon visiting his parents and siblings the next morning, he remarked that his front door mysteriously opened and shut as he read a book the night before. It was Jesse Bell's wife, Martha, whom Kate gave a pair of black stockings as a "gift" and requested that she be buried in them.
The eldest of John and Lucy Bell's children, Jesse Bell was born in Edgecombe Co, NC, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Tennessee. He joined the Tennessee Militia in 1814, and fought in the Creek Indian War and the battles of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans under then Major General Andrew Jackson.
He married Martha Gunn, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Gunn, in September of 1817. Their family, which ultimately consisted of nine children, lived in Robertson Co, TN, until the 1837-1842 period, when they moved to Panola Co, MS.
They developed farmland in the present-day community of Eureka, about seven miles east of Batesville, MS. Their third child, Sarah Elizabeth Bell, married her first cousin, Jesse Bell Porter, who was the son of Alex and Esther Bell Porter.
Jesse Bell died in 1843 while visiting friends in Christian Co, KY, near the present-day town of Hopkinsville. His place of burial is unknown; however, there exists a gravestone in a Riverside Cemetery that bears the faint inscription, "Bell," and lists 1843 as the date of death.
His wife, Martha Gunn Bell, died in 1881 and is buried in Panola Co, MS. It is not known whether she was buried in the black stockings as Kate had requested.
The eldest of John and Lucy Bell's children, Jesse Bell was born in Edgecombe Co, NC, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Tennessee. He joined the Tennessee Militia in 1814, and fought in the Creek Indian War and the battles of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans under then Major General Andrew Jackson.
He married Martha Gunn, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Gunn, in September of 1817. Their family, which ultimately consisted of nine children, lived in Robertson Co, TN, until the 1837-1842 period, when they moved to Panola Co, MS.
They developed farmland in the present-day community of Eureka, about seven miles east of Batesville, MS. Their third child, Sarah Elizabeth Bell, married her first cousin, Jesse Bell Porter, who was the son of Alex and Esther Bell Porter.
Jesse Bell died in 1843 while visiting friends in Christian Co, KY, near the present-day town of Hopkinsville. His place of burial is unknown; however, there exists a gravestone in a Riverside Cemetery that bears the faint inscription, "Bell," and lists 1843 as the date of death.
His wife, Martha Gunn Bell, died in 1881 and is buried in Panola Co, MS. It is not known whether she was buried in the black stockings as Kate had requested.
Kate once "checked on" Jesse Bell and told Lucy Bell he had returned safely from a business trip and was at his home reading a book. Upon visiting his parents and siblings the next morning, he remarked that his front door mysteriously opened and shut as he read a book the night before. It was Jesse Bell's wife, Martha, whom Kate gave a pair of black stockings as a "gift" and requested that she be buried in them.
The eldest of John and Lucy Bell's children, Jesse Bell was born in Edgecombe Co, NC, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Tennessee. He joined the Tennessee Militia in 1814, and fought in the Creek Indian War and the battles of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans under then Major General Andrew Jackson.
He married Martha Gunn, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Gunn, in September of 1817. Their family, which ultimately consisted of nine children, lived in Robertson Co, TN, until the 1837-1842 period, when they moved to Panola Co, MS.
They developed farmland in the present-day community of Eureka, about seven miles east of Batesville, MS. Their third child, Sarah Elizabeth Bell, married her first cousin, Jesse Bell Porter, who was the son of Alex and Esther Bell Porter.
Jesse Bell died in 1843 while visiting friends in Christian Co, KY, near the present-day town of Hopkinsville. His place of burial is unknown; however, there exists a gravestone in a Riverside Cemetery that bears the faint inscription, "Bell," and lists 1843 as the date of death.
His wife, Martha Gunn Bell, died in 1881 and is buried in Panola Co, MS. It is not known whether she was buried in the black stockings as Kate had requested.
The eldest of John and Lucy Bell's children, Jesse Bell was born in Edgecombe Co, NC, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Tennessee. He joined the Tennessee Militia in 1814, and fought in the Creek Indian War and the battles of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans under then Major General Andrew Jackson.
He married Martha Gunn, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Gunn, in September of 1817. Their family, which ultimately consisted of nine children, lived in Robertson Co, TN, until the 1837-1842 period, when they moved to Panola Co, MS.
They developed farmland in the present-day community of Eureka, about seven miles east of Batesville, MS. Their third child, Sarah Elizabeth Bell, married her first cousin, Jesse Bell Porter, who was the son of Alex and Esther Bell Porter.
Jesse Bell died in 1843 while visiting friends in Christian Co, KY, near the present-day town of Hopkinsville. His place of burial is unknown; however, there exists a gravestone in a Riverside Cemetery that bears the faint inscription, "Bell," and lists 1843 as the date of death.
His wife, Martha Gunn Bell, died in 1881 and is buried in Panola Co, MS. It is not known whether she was buried in the black stockings as Kate had requested.
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