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Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' magazine,
dated June, 1924. page 274
WILSON VINCENT BELL, aged 82 years, died at the family home near
Luling, Texas, on January 21, 1924, and was laid to rest in the city
cemetery.
He was born at Spartanburg, South Carolina, Feb. 21, 1841, going
later to Adairsville, Ga., where he enlisted in the 8th Georgia
Battalion, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, serving as sergeant throughout
the war.
He was married in 1868 to MISS MISSOURI MOORE, and his second
wife was MISS MARTHA ABERNATHY, who survives him, also 13 children.
Comrade BELL was one of the pioneer citizens of Caldwell County,
going to Texas in 1879. He was a man who made warm friendships, and no
man had more true friends than he. Having joined the Baptist church in
1865, he consecrated his life to God and practiced his religion belief
in the daily works of his life, serving as a deacon in the church almost
from the time he united with it.
Services at the grave were conducted by the Odd Fellows Lodge,
of which he had been a honored member for a number of years, and
loving hands tenderly laid away this mortal remains under a mound of
beautiful flowers, attesting the love and esteem of all for this good
man who had passed to his reward.
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