{"id":3673,"date":"2016-05-09T02:08:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2016-05-09T02:08:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:08:16","slug":"mrs-w-t-r-bell-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/mrs-w-t-r-bell-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"BELL, Mrs. W.T.R. &#8211; (d. 1915)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A death that brought sadness and gloom to all our town occurred at Spartanburg, S.C., Monday night, when in the home of her son Charles, <strong>Mrs. W.T.R. BELL<\/strong> passed away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mrs. BELL was born March the 18th, 1848, at Newport, N.C., in Carteret County. She died March 1, 1915, being nearly 66 years of age. \u00a0The remains were brought here yesterday and services were conducted from the Methodist church, of which she had been a consistent member for the greater part of her life, by her pastor, <strong>Rev. Albert SHERRILL<\/strong>, in the presence of a great concourse of sympathizing friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On January 1, 1868, she was married to <strong>Capt. W.T.R. BELL<\/strong>, a native of Ocomac county, Va. \u00a0She lived to make him a happy home for 47 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She leaves to mourn for her the husband, who, as a life-long teacher of large experience, has charge of Boiling Springs High School. \u00a0A son <strong>Charley<\/strong>, clerk in the post office at Spartanburg, S.C; another son, <strong>James<\/strong>, Superintendent of the Graded Schools of Rockingham, N.C.; one daughter, who is the wife of <strong>Mr. T.P. REYNOLDS,<\/strong> of Asheville. \u00a0These relatives were all present at the funeral services. \u00a0The floral tributes were large and beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mrs. BELL<\/strong> was one of the sweetest spirits that ever graced a home or blessed a community. &#8212; Albert SHERRILL<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: NC Christian Advocate, 11\u00a0March\u00a01915. \u00a0Available online at the<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/northcarolinachr60unit\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A death that brought sadness and gloom to all our town occurred at Spartanburg, S.C., Monday night, when in the home of her son Charles, Mrs. W.T.R. BELL passed away. Mrs. BELL was born March the 18th, 1848, at Newport, N.C., in Carteret County. She died March 1, 1915, being nearly 66 years of age. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,2288,6,1578,49],"tags":[3270,3271,3269,3272,1622],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buncombe","category-carteret","category-death","category-nc-christian-advocate","category-richmond","tag-bell-charley","tag-bell-james","tag-bell-w-t-r-mrs","tag-reynolds-t-p-mrs","tag-sherrill-albert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Xf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}