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Marker No: 7083

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 32.479065, -96.784889

Location: From the intersection of FM 813 and Loma Linda Road in Rockett Community, take Loma Linda Road north approximately 1 mile, then west on Bell Chapel Road approximately 1.5 miles to cemetery.

Marker Text: ​Founded 1875. Site for church cemetery was given on Dec. 27, 1875, by local landowners John and Elizabeth Gibbons. This tract and some later purchases were deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
    Church and cemetery were named in honor of confederate war veteran Jodie M. Bell, a church and civic leader in Rockett Community, and first person to be buried here, 1877. 
    Red Oak Masonic Lodge No. 461, chartered in 1876, helped build 2-story chapel and meeting hall. 
     The lodge moved to Red Oak in 1894. (1970)