Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bell, John D. 151390

Birth: 11/27/1890 Death: 10/23/1918 Marriage:

Cemetery: Highland (6 CTR MID EAST)

Record Source: Headstone, Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/16/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, October 25, 1918, Pg. 2: “R. O. Story and Mack Grant, the undertaker, came up from Deport last night to meet the remains of John D. Bell, a young soldier, who died at Camp Travis, and which came in on the 10:30 o’clock Santa Fe train.“

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: John D Bell
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 23 Oct 1918
Event Place: Camp MacArthur, Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 1890
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: J F Bell
Mother’s Name:
Certificate Number: 43712
GS Film number: 2073349
Digital Folder Number: 005145694
Image Number: 02470
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3ZB-ZHB : 13 March 2018), J F Bell in entry for John D Bell, 23 Oct 1918; citing certificate number 43712, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,349.

Tombstone is inscribed, “Son of Frank and Minnie Bell.” Moved from Old Deport Cemetery. Woodmen of the World marker. Near Norma A. Bell and Jack N. Bell.

War Notes Rank

World War I Private

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