Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
NameLeon Victor Bell
Birth16 Feb 1902, GA369,1,2
Death11 Sep 1936, Roanoke, VA369,1,2
BurialUnion Hill Methodist Cemetery, Canton, Cherokee, GA369,1,2
FatherMatthew Jesse "Doc" Bell (1855-1945)
MotherAbigail Lassiter (1859-1930)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: 11-Sep-1936 Roanoke, VA deaths369, Leon V. Bell
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Union Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, Canton, Cherokee, GA1,459, Leaon Bell, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15944555
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Leon Victor Bell, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/GQJ6-DTR
!REFERENCE: 1903 Bell/Blackwell picture463
!CENSUS: 05-May-1910 89 Bradley Street, Ward 5, Atlanta, Fulton, GA, 11/12, Victor L. Bell
!CENSUS: 07-Jan-1920 U. S. General Hospital #6, Fort McPherson, Fulton, GA
!OCCUPATION: Chauffeur
!MARRIAGE: 27-May-1923 Marietta, Cobb, GA marriages300,1187, 983, Leon V. Bell and Fannie Mae Blackwell, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW3D-WBZ
!NOTE: This 1923 marriage is probably with Fannie Mae Blackwell (1905-1971), daughter of David Glenn Blackwell (1881-1939) and Ether Beatrice Hosea (1884-1937)
!REFERENCE: 31-May-1930 Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, GA, page 5, obituary for mother Mrs. D. J. Bell, Leon Blackwell
!RESIDENCE: 31-May-1930 Atlanta, Fulton, GA
!REFERENCE: 12-Sep-1936 Daily Press, Newport News, VA, page 1, story on death of Leon V. Bell
!REFERENCE: 2003 pictures (late 1800s and early 1900s) from Martha Bell Jones to Don Braffitt, https://willbraffitt.org/roots/bell/
!REFERENCE: 27-Aug-2009 email from Martha Bell Jones to Don Braffitt, "The story that my uncle told me was that Leon was the "black sheep" of the family. He said that Leon was killed in some other state for some criminal act and that Doc had to go to the other state to get him."
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