Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bell, Minnie A. Grant 224446

Birth: 08/17/1869 Death: 12/15/1946 Marriage: 01/12/1888

Cemetery: Highland (6 CTR MID EAST)

Record Source: Detroit News Herald, Headstone, Texas Death Certificate

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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. (12/17/2025)

Notes

THE DETROIT NEWS-HERALD, 19 Dec 1946 from microfilm in Clarksville Library: “Mrs. J. F. Bell, mother of Russie Bell of Detroit, died at the family home in Deport Sunday night. Funeral services were conducted at the Deport Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock with commitment services at Highland Cemetery. Before her marriage to Mr. Bell on 12 Jan 1888 she was Miss Minnie Grant, a daughter of the late Nathan and Mary Grant. She was born and reared in that section. Surviving are her husband and 8 children: Corrie, Roger, Stanley, Jack and Miss Norma Bell of Deport, Mrs. T. U. Anderson and Ranson Bell of Dallas, and Russie Bell of Detroit; a brother, Dumas Grant of Deport, 1 son, John D. Bell, died in 1918 while in service.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Minnie Grant Bell
Event Type: Death
Event Place: Deport, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1869
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Nathan Grant
Mother’s Name: Mary Dickson
Certificate Number: 56247
GS Film number: 2218504
Digital Folder Number: 005145019
Image Number: 03476
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K39F-FVG : 13 March 2018), Mary Dickson in entry for Minnie Grant Bell, ; citing certificate number 56247, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,504.

Triple marker with J. Frank Bell and Norma A. Bell. Near Mildred M. Bell and John D. Bell. Tombstone is inscribed, "Mother."

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