Historical Marker
Bell Cemetery
Historical marker location:
Palestine, Texas
( 2 mi. S on Middle Crockett Rd., then left on FM 2914 at Chambers Cemetery, proceed 1 mi. to CR 151 and continue to cemetery on N side of road)
Marker installed: 1991
Confederate veteran Uriah Jasper Bell (1839 -1915) brought his family to northeast Texas in 1871. An ordained Baptist minister, he relocated to this area to lead the Ft. Houston Baptist Church. He and his wife Nancy (d. 1918) were the parents of seven children. Their only daughter, Lula Bell Kent, died in a fire in January 1890, three months after her marriage to Will Kent. She was buried on the family farm, and hers is the first burial in what became the Bell Cemetery. Also buried here are the Bells' six sons, as well as several generations of Bell family descendants. (1991).