Bell Cemetery

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Marker No: 8735

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.705036,-95.563805

Marker Text: Confederate veteran Uriah Jasper Bell (1839 -1915) brought his family to northeast Texas in 1871. An ordained Baptist minister, he relocated to this area to lead the Ft. Houston Baptist Church. He and his wife Nancy (d. 1918) were the parents of seven children. Their only daughter, Lula Bell Kent, died in a fire in January 1890, three months after her marriage to Will Kent. She was buried on the family farm, and hers is the first burial in what became the Bell Cemetery. Also buried here are the Bells' six sons, as well as several generations of Bell family descendants. (1991)

Location: 2 miles south on Middle Crockett Road, then left on FM 2419 at Chambers Cemetery, proceed 1 mile to CR 151 and continue to cemetery on north side of road