Parents and Family of Modesta Rosaline Bell

Benjamin Bell was born in 1805 in South Carolina.  He married Frances Chandler 29Dec1827 in Lauderdale Co. Alabama.  Frances was born 1806 in Virginia.  The couple remained in Alabama until approximately 1833 when they moved to Tennessee (no census records found but indexes point ot Davidson, Fayette, or Stewart Counties)  and had several additional children.  The family removed to Smackover Township, Ouachita County, Arkansas prior to 1850.  Frances appears by herself in the 1860 census and the 1870 census at the age of 63 suggesting that Benjamin had passed by 1860. Lenorah married Miles Joshua Gentry in the mid 1860's and they removed to Hempstead county sometime after 1870,  Several of the children appear in Hempstead County, Arkansas later. Although I have been unable to find specific links, I believe that William and Modesta Gray followed the members of the Bell family into Hempstead and Howard County Arkansas during the 1870's.

Children of Benjamin and Frances BELL Mary A.  b: 1830 in Alabama Elizabeth  b:1831 in Alabama Frances E. b: 1832 in Alabama Elijah/Elza L. b: 1834 in TN Living in DeRoan Hempstead 1880 (m: unknown     Beatrice Bell (d) b:1869 in TN (m:Nancy E. b:1855 TN/TN/TN)      Lewis E. Bell (s) b:1878 in AR Katherine b:1836 in TN Robert W. b: 1837 in TN Lenorah D. b: 1838 in TN      (m: Joshua/Miles Gentry b:1835ALorMS/SC/SC) moved to DeRoan Twp, Hempstead 1880 Dorothy b: 1841 in TN Modesty Rosaline b: 27 Mar 1842 in TN Danetha J. b: 1843 in TN (w/ Joshua Gentry & Frances Bell 1870 in Smackover_ Thomas J. b: 1844 in TN      (Thomas may have moved to ThomsonTwp, Pike Co. AR by 1870 and married Susan F???             (b:abt 1843 in MO, with Quincy H. 10/12 (m)) Filmore  b: 1856 in Arkansas

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Family of Frances Chandler Bell