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Daughter of the Pioneers

and settled in Virginia, North mules and
Carolina and Georgia. My great, cows. At that
great, great grandfather, James Bell, time, many
fought in the American Revolution. houses in
My great grandparents married in Lubbock were
1855, had 14 children and settled built along the
near Elysian Fields in Harrison west bank of
County, Texas. The Bell family was the canyon.
known for their honesty. Everyone The Santa
knew that their word was their Fe Railroad
bond. My father’s parents married bought up the
in 1883. They raised six children, property, and After graduating from the beautiful
three girls, twin boys and another my grandfather was hired to move new Lubbock High School, I went
son. My dad was one of the twins. the houses off the right-of-way to the to work for Dunlaps Department
My Bell grandparents moved to west side of the courthouse. He built Store as an account clerk. I
Lubbock before 1920 and owned and skids, jacks and tackles and moved worked there several years before
operated a grocery store on the east each house with teams of mules, moving to Inglewood, California,
side of Lubbock across from Sanders and the railroad came into Lubbock where I worked for the Veterans’
Elementary School at 610 3rd St. in 1909. Grandfather also worked Administration. I so thoroughly
for the county, filling in low places enjoyed my job, that at my first year
My mother’s parents met and and lakes. My grandmother was a anniversary party, they crowned me
married in 1893. Their people had busy little woman taking care of her “Queen of the Rehab Division”.
moved to the Abernathy area. My children. All eight of them were still
grandparents, James T. and Pearl alive when she died at age 93. I met and married my husband Erle,
Hart were living in a half dugout and we settled down to married life
in Abernathy when my mother Both of my grandmothers and in Oxnard, California in 1950. Erle
was born. They moved to Lubbock mother were excellent seamstresses, was born and raised in Minnesota,
in 1903 and bought a house with so I did not lack for pretty clothing so after his early retirement, we
acreage in the vicinity of 19th growing up. Later, sewing became were able to take many long fall
St. and Ave. G. That area is now something I loved and could do and winter vacations to enjoy the
known as the J.T. Hart addition. My well, also. beautiful foliage and snows of the
grandfather Hart owned horses, Northeast. Most of our traveling was

in loving
memory
We are extremely grateful to have Theda here
at SouthHaven! She is our little “SouthHaven
Cheerleader!” She is always wearing a smile!

4611 66th Street Lubbock, TX 79414 806.799.6363
southhavenassistedlivinglubbock.com Southhavenlubbock@yahoo.com
License #101630 Erle Krause Joe Dick Bell

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