Can you identify these photos? These pictures need identifying, if anyone can help please email me..

Sent in by Susan Hoffman

Sallie's family: Thomas Arendell Heath and three wives:
first wife Harriett Kennedy:
Children:Nancy Ann HEATH (David EDWARDS), Jesse Thomas HEATH (Stella Stokes HARTSFIELD),
Second wife Debbie BELL:
Children: Hervey Arrendall HEATH, Myrtle Penelope HEATH,
Third wife Mittie Elda A. HUNTER: (Sallie's mother)
Children: Hugh Troy Hunter HEATH (Daisy WALLACE ) and Mary Bernice HEATH (Mark CUMMINGS


Susan has also sent the following photos--please help identify!!!


N. E. BELL-written on back

Needham Erick BELL identified by Josh WALLER Josh writes, "my great grandmother Lottie Lucille Bell WALLER'S father was Hubert BELL. He had a brother named Needham Erick BELL; who attended N.C. State University when it was a military school. The letters on the uniform look like A & M which was the name of the school at that time. (A & M College) He also wrote a book later in life that tells a little about his experiences there and about his profession in insurance. The reason we both have pictures of these individuals is the name ROUSE. Hubert & Needham E. BELL'S father was James H. BELL. He was a 27th Co. C., N.C. Infantry Confederate Veteran. He also owned a bike shop with his sons in Kinston. James H. BELL'S wife was Mary ROUSE, hence the ROUSE connection.

Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File Bell 02433-5. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. This particular document is a microfilmed newspaper--The Kinston Free Press..no date given, but judging from some of the articles it was 1899. Bell and Sons General Repair Shops, Wood and Iron Works, Bicycles and Repairs, Pumps, etc. Mr. James H. Bell, the senior member of this enterprising firm, was born in Lenoir County May 15, 1844. He farmed a good many years of his life and then came to Kinston in 1881, and plied the carpenter's trade. After three years he returned to farming for six years, working between time at the carpenter's trade. In 1893 he began, with his sons, Julius and Jesse, the present prosperous business. They began the business near the present location and in August, 1884, leased of B. N. Fields, the northeast corner of Gordon and Heritage streets for ten years and erected his large shops. In 1893 they built another shop adjoining the main shops on the east, for bicycles and bicycle repair work. Mr. Jesse H. Bell was born October 26, 1869, in Lenoir County. Julius has withdrawn from the business. Bell and Sons run a general repair shop and are prepared to build carts, wagons, buggies and tobacco trucks. They carry a large stock of drive pumps and pump pipe. They carry perhaps the nicest line of high grade bicycles in Kinston and have in stock everything needed in bicycle sundries. They are ready to do all sorts of repairing on bicycles promptly and satisfactorily. Mr. Jesse Bell is an expert painter of signs, furniture, carriages, iron safes and landscape sketches. He is a splendid natural mechanic and in thoroughly equipped to do all sorts of mechanical work done in any first class repair shop. When you have anything that you want done take it to Bell and Sons and you will get it done as you wish, and quickly. They are doing a big business and their patronage is constantly increasing, on account of the promptness with which they attend to their work and the universal satisfaction given.

Copy of original Bible found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File #02433-3 We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. No front page There is a note attached that says Jesse Hardee Rouse married Elizabeth Jane Kennedy BIRTHS James H. Bell Was Borned May the 15th 1845 Mary G. Bell Daughter of Jessee H. Rouse & Jane His wife was Borned June the 7th 1850 Julius H. Bell Son of James H. Bell & Mary G. Bell His wife was Borned March the 14th 1868 Jessee H. Bell Son of James H. Bell & Mary G. Bell his wife was Borned Oct. the 16th 1869 Lula Leonah (?) Bell Daughter of James H. Bell & Mary G. Bell his wife was Borned November the 21st 1871 James H. Bell Son of James H. Bell and Mary G. Bell his wife was Borned November the 13th 1816 George Herman Bell Son of James H. Bell and Mary G. Bell his wife was Borned January the 19the A.D. 1879

Josh WALLER sent his family picture of the James H. BELL family

James H. BELL and wife Mary ROUSE are the two people in front
Needham Eric BELL is the one on the bottom right corner, next to his mother
Man on top right corner with mustache is either Julius or Jesse BELL.




The picture is of Mary John Rouse Bell (7-June-1850 to 16-Nov-1914 ). She is also shown in the Bell family photo with her husband and children that I sent you earlier. She lived most of her life in Kinston NC and later moved to Morhead City NC where she died. Sent by Josh WALLER



Susan B. Hoffman's pictures continued

  
Nellie Read -written on back












George Kinsey ROUSE-Police Officer
Thelma DAWSON, age 6

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