Family Stories

Family Stories

Tell them like they were told to you!

Every family has interesting stories. Some we heard and some we lived. They can be from yesterday or yesteryear. Share your favorite stories here.

Toting The Old Ball and Chain by Jack Bell

This happened to Daddy and his second wife when they lived in either Rusk or Lufkin anyway Daddy ended up in jail in Lufkin probably for non child support or being vagrant or drunk. He was put on the Chain Gang..

One Ornery Coon by Jack Bell

Baileys Marsh was a swampy area over at Bois D'Ark. Its on Highway 19 between Palestine and Athens. That's where we lived when I went into the Army. I was home on leave and went coon hunting..

Riding the Bus by Jack Bell

In 1964 I was stationed in Korea at a defensive position overlooking the south side of the Ingim River. Anytime you wanted to go the PX or the Rec Center you had to ride the bus. One day when I was riding the bus someone kept hollering at me from the back of the bus. It was Jerry Bell. He was stationed on the north side of the Ingim with a tank battalion.

Jack Bell (Jerry Bell is my cousin and one of Ernest Bell's son)

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The Woodsman by Jack Bell

In either 1958 or 1959 we lived on a place down the road towards Centerville from the old Adkins place. One of Cecil's older brothers brought him down and dropped him off with just a backpack and his bow and arrows. He headed off into the woods and stayed gone for three straight days just living off the land. I think he stayed by the creek on the old slew not to far from Highway 7.

Jack Bell (Cecil was my cousin and one of Ernest Bell's sons)

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The Camp Coyote by Charlie Bell

It was a cold January afternoon when these events took place and Dad and I were...