The
Bell Family
of Duplin
&
Sampson Counties,
North Carolina
by Joel Watson
1 Robert Bell b. ABT 1683 England d. 1738 Bertie Precinct, NC
m. Anne Ferguson
2 John Bell b. _____ d. 1783 Duplin Co., NC (Duplin Co. Will A:18
3 Thomas Bell b. _____ d. AFT 1805
m. Mary Jane ????? b. ABT 1750 d. AFT 1815
4 Penelope Bell b. 1784 d. AFT 1870
5 Margaret Jane Bell b. 1818 d. 1903
6 Lucy Jane Bell b. 1 Jan 1835 Kenansville, Duplin Co., N.C. d. 24 Mar 1918 Sampson Co., NC
m. 6 Jan 1853 Warsaw, Duplin County, NC John Robert Draughon b. 27 Oct 1827 Johnston Co., N.C.
Most of the information here is from Larry Draughon, 1537 East McLellan,
Mesa, AZ 85203 (602) 834-5647, as of Christmas, 1996.
7 Mary Frances Draughon b. 20 Jul 1855
7 William Wright Draughon b. 1 Jun 1857
7 George Washington Draughon b. 9 Feb 1859
7 Andrew Jackson Draughon b. 20 Oct 1861
7 Matthew B. Draughon b. 24 Nov 1863
7 Arkansas Draughon b. 22 Mar 1865
7 Robert Taylor Draughon b. 6 Sep 1866
7 Narcissus Jane Draughon b. 11 Dec 1868 d. 1935
7 John Dixon Draughon b. 18 Jan 1872
7 David Crockett Draughon b. 3 Sep 1874
7 Elizabeth Catherine Draughon b. 31 Jan 1877
6 Martha Adeline Bell b. 5 Jun 1840 Duplin County, North Carolina d. 16 Jun 1920 Wayne Co., NC
m. 1857 NC Garry Bright Draughon
6 Mary C. Bell b. 1843 Duplin Co., NC
m. Dutch Frank
6 Thomas Francis Bell b. 22 Jun 1844 Duplin County, North Carolina d. 10 Jul 1925 Wilmington, New Hanover Co., NC
m. ABT 1866 Duplin Co., NC Mary A. King b. Feb 1850
m. 1908 _____ Sweepter??
7 Sallie Bell b. ABT 1870
7 Maggie J. Bell b. ABT 1873
7 Cedro F. Bell b. ABT 1876
7 Walter Mc. Bell b. Mar 1879
7 Ellen Bell b. Oct 1877
7 Victoria L. Bell b. Aug 1864
m. ????? Brown
8 Rosell Brown b. Dec 1890
7 Mattie L. Bell b. Jun 1890
6 McLloyd Bell b. 27 Sep 1850 Duplin County, North Carolina d. 20 Jun 1925 Currie, N.C.
m. Alice Nunalee b. 15 Jun 1867 d. 17 Jul 1957
7 Herbert Patterson Bell
m. Pearl Teague
8 Herbert Patterson Bell
m. Dolly Ann Johnson
9 Melinda Ann Bell
9 Alice Bell
8 Dorothy Bell
m. David Miller
9 Gay Miller
8 Betty Ann Bell
m. Peter Harrison
9 Donald Herbert Harrison
9 Cynthia Pearl Harrison
8 McLloyd Bell
7 Frank Love Bell
m. Kate Parker
Frank Love Bell, Foreman, Machine Shop, Waycross, Georgia, ended an
active career of forty years of railroad service when he retired June 1,
1957.
He was born in Wilmington, N.C., on May 19, 1892. He began railroading
at the age of twenty-five as a Machinist at Waycross and during his career
held the positions of Tool Room Foreman, Roundhouse Foreman, Locomotive
Foreman of Manufacturing and Reclamation, Wheel Shop Foreman and Machine Shop
Foreman.
Prior to entering service with the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, he
served with a four year Machinists's Apprenticeship with the Benthall Machine
Company, Suffolk, Virginia.
Frank Bell was a member of the First Baptist Church in Waycross, where
he was a Deacon and President of his Sunday School Class. He was also an
active member of the local Shrine Club. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the Y.M.C.A.
He and his wife lived at 401 Nicholas Street, just opposite Mary Street
Park where he as a baseball enthusiast could be expected to be refereeing
baseball for the Junior League Teams for many years.
On a Friday evening, May 10, 1957, sixty fellow-officers and railroad
friends gathered at the Ware Hotel to pay tribure to Frank Bell and to wish
him happiness in hie retirement. J. C. Parker, the Shop Superintendent,
presided as Master of Ceremonies at the steak dinner. J. Lee Parker,
Electrical Foreman and long time friend, presented Frank with a handsome
wristwatch and Mrs. Bell with a silver pitcher and silver cake stand.
Affectionally called "Unky" by many of his closer friends, Frank Love
Bell left an association that had held first place in his heart and in his
efforts for many years. His friendly smile would soon be missed, for he had
been a familiar and respected participant in Atlantic Coastline activities for
a long, long time.
What I [Shelley B. Joel Watson] remember about "Uncle Bun" as we all
called him in Virginia was that he ALWAYS had a silver dollar for each of us
children! Not only that, he always with empty hands, found it in our ears! He
was a delight!
8 Frank Love Bell
8 Junious Parker Bell
m.
9 Sabra Ann Bell
7 Melissa Jane Bell
m. John J. Williams
8 Lucille Amelia Williams
m. George Dallas Flynn
9 Jane Winifred Flynn
m. Jack McKinsie Woodcock
10 James McKinsie Woodcock
10 James Bernice Woodcock
10 Jennie Amelia Woodcock
10 Janice Amelia Woodcock
9 George Dallas Flynn
m. Mira Alice Barnhill
10 George Dallas Flynn
9 John James Flynn
m. Carolyn Elizabeth Barnhill
9 Barbara Ann Flynn
m. Herbert Hoover Pate
10 Marcia Gayle Pate
9 Hazel Wray Flynn b. 3 May 1926 Wilmington, North Carolina
m. Edward Adolph Langston
m. Adolph Langston
10 George Edward Langston
10 Larry Earnest Langston
10 Thomas Franklin Langston
10 George Edward Langston b. 25 Aug 1944 Wilmington, North Carolina
m. 22 Jun 1968 Jane Hamer
11 Kimberly Ann Langston b. 31 Jul 1970
11 Todd Edward Langston b. 16 Jul 1973
10 Larry Ernest Langston b. 11 Aug 1945
10 Thomas Franklin Langston b. 11 Jul 1952
m. 17 Mar 1983 Susan Ross
10 Richard Dean Langston b. 19 Mar 1955 Burgaw, North Carolina
m. 10 Jun 1989 Elizabeth Carston
11 Julianna Elizabeth Langston b. 9 Jan 1992
8 Lemuel Mack Williams
m. Gladys _____
9 Lemuel Mack
9 Frank Love Williams
9 Jane Elizabeth Williams
9 John Arthur Williams
9 Robert Henry Williams
9 Henry Williams
9 Annie Joyce Williams
9 Bennie George Williams
8 Johnnie Williams
8 Bennie Frank Williams
8 George Whitley Williams
m. Edith Porter
9 Sally Josephine Porter
9 Linda Carroll Williams
7 Dolly Ann Bell b. 26 Jul 1889 RED SPRINGS, PENDER COUNTY, N.C. d. 11 Aug 1969 Obici Hospital, Suffolk, Virginia
m. Bennie Frank Cross
m. 12 Apr 1908 WILMINGTON, N.C. George Franklin Whitley b. 11 Mar 1889 Surry Courthouse, Virginia
Bennie:
Bennie Frank Cross died very shortly after he and Dolly Bell were
married. He
was from Suffolk, Virginia.
George:
On August 29, 1956, an article appeared in the Suffolk News Herald, "George
Whitley Marks 40th Year As a Banker-- Joined American Bank in 1916." On that
date "Grumps," as his grandchildren called him, was Vice President of the Bank
and a Director of the American Bank and Trust Company since early spring. "I
quit school when I was fourteen, when my mother passed away. I had, from the
age of five and a half years until I was twelve years old, been tutored by a
Mrs. Judkins of Surry. My birthplace was just within sight of Surry
[Courthouse]. My father sent me to the Smithfield Institute, that lasted just
one session." When he was asked what his least favorite subject was he
answered Latin and Algebra, and with a twinkle in his eye said, "I had a Latin
Book just one day, I gave it back to my teacher, some folks may remember him,
it was John Bohannan. I once told him when I was struggling with Algebra I
didn't see any need to persecute boys with such stuff." But his favorite
subjects were history and geography. Grumps said in the interview that since
the time he had left home he had had only five jobs. Three of those were in
Wakefield where he was raised and where his mother died. The fourth was the
railroad in Suffolk. He said that people probably wondered why a man in his
job could be seen almost daily standing by the railroad. "Well, there is no
sweeter music to my ears than that made by a giant mallett (engine) pulling a
heavy train and I go down to the N. and W. tracks nearly every morning before
going to the bank to watch The Arrow go west or one of the many heavy
freight's that pass through Suffolk early in the morning. Their music to me is
sweeter than any orchestra. Grumps went to work with the railroad in 1907 and
spent nearly ten years with it. I have done everything from the janitor's job
to the resident's since Ernest Jones employed me on August 29, 1916. I had
just quit my job with the Norfolk and Western Railway and was broke. I heard
that a new bank had been organized and went there to get a job. Ernest Jones
asked me if I had any knowledge of banking and I said no. Ernest hired me and
I've been here ever since. The original building was across the street from
this building. The Frank Jones furniture store was located on this site and
next to it was Belden Bell's Bar. There were seven bars in a row in those
days, from Bell's down East Washington Street.I moved the first piece of
furniture from the old banking office to the new. I noticed that the entrance
to the new vault was going to be too narrow for the safe when the men
installed the vault door. I told Ernest Jones, he said, "I don't think it will
be too narrow." Anyhow he measured the vault. He found I was right. He was
about to call a safe mover from Norfolk when I told him I could do the job if
he would get me four 2x12s and two men to help. Ernest said , "I don't think
you can move the safe." I said I was a railroader for ten years and I know I
can. Well, he finally gave in and I moved the safe in a little over two hours.
When asked by the interviewer if he hadn't had some funny experiences in 40
years with the bank, George replied, "No, the only experiences I have had were
work and more work." He was not only the oldest employee in length of service,
but oldest in years at 67. Of the 20 directors of the bank when he started
only Kelly Kendrick was still living.
8 Helen Elizabeth Whitley
m. Claude Clifford Lilly
9 Claude Clifford Lilly
m.
10 Claude Whitley Lilly
8 George Franklin Whitley
m. Marjorie Eleanor Stiles
9 Cathy Jo Whitley
9 George Franklin Whitley
9 Richard Whitley
9 Leonard Whitley
8 Alice Wingfield Whitley b. 12 Sep 1910 Suffolk, Virginia d. 15 Jun 1971 at her home on Linden Ave., Suffolk, Va.
m. 14 Jun 1929 at home, Suffolk, Va., by Rev. Staley Shelley Burch Watson b. 28 Oct 1907 Capron, Southampton Co., Va.
My mother.
Shelley:
Named for Thaddeus A. Burch of Baltimore, Maryland, a friend of Robert
Edward Watson.
9 Dolly Bell Watson b. 7 Jan 1931 Suffolk, Virginia
m. Charles Brosia Carr, Jr. b. 4 Mar 1926 Windsor, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia
Confirmed by the Rt. Rev. William A. Brown, Bishop of Virginia in Christ
Episcopal Church, Smithfield, Virginia on December 6, 1959. She was
organist
at that Church for more than 35 years.
10 Dolly Watson Carr b. 5 Oct 1949 The Lakeview Clinic, Suffolk, Virginia
m. Michael Chin
11 Sarah Wingfield Chin
10 William Love Carr b. 18 Apr 1952 Suffolk, Virginia
m. Juel Frances Barnes
m. Brenda Atkinson
m. Wanda Chapman
11 William Love Carr
m. 16 Sep 1995 St. Mary's Catholic Church, Suffolk, Va. Angela Marie Cornett
12 William Grant Carr b. 11 Sep 1997 Suffolk, Virginia
11 David Love Carr
11 Eric James Carr
11 Krystal Love Carr
10 Charles Brosia Carr III b. 5 Jan 1962 Suffolk, Virginia
m. Vickie Lee Dean
11 Charles Brosia Carr IV
9 Shelley Burch (Joel) Watson, Jr. b. 16 Nov 1944 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
m. 5 Sep 1981 Ascension Church, Greenpoint, N.Y. Margaret Hambly b. 14 Mar 1956 Alta Bates Hospital, California
Confirmed at Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia by the Rt. Rev. William
A. Brown, Bishop of Virginia on May 30, 1965, with Mrs. Mildred (Richard
A.) Savedge as sponsor. She married a cousin. This was Bishop Brown's
last Confirmation class.
3 John Bell
m. _____ Mary
3 Frederick Bell
m. Sarah King
3 Lewis Bell b. _____ d. 1767
m. 9 Jun 1764 Duplin Co., NC Emy Cannon
2 Robert Bell b. _____ d. ABT 1712 Essex County, Va.
2 Archibald Bell b. _____ d. 1779 Duplin Co., NC
m. _____ Mary
2 Isabel Bell
m. ABT 1720 Bertie Precinct, NC Michael King
m. ABT 1749 Edward Dyall
2 Jean Bell
m. 1724 Bertie County, NC William Byrd
2 George Bell b. ABT 1718 Chowan Precinct, NC d. 1792 Sampson Co., NC
m. _____ Elizabeth
m. ABT 1738 Bertie County, NC _____ Debra
2 Penelope Bell b. ABT 1734 Bertie County, NC
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