Greenbury Bell & Susannah Knight

Contributed by Kenneth Bell
© 2002

Greenbury Bell (son of James Bell and Martha Marcum/Markham and a grandson of James Bell. For more information see the Family of James Bell) was born in 1844 in Sumner Co., TN. He died 1908 in Randolph Co. IL. Greenbury married in 1872 in Marion Co., Ill. to Susannah Susan Knight. Susan Cynthia Knight was born 1852 (Fayette Co.? ) Ill. She died 1935 Randolph Co., Ill. Parents of Susan Knight-Bell are Thomas L. Knight and Mary Polly Houston.

Children of Greenbury Bell and Susan Knight are:

  1. Luther Bell was born 1873 Marion Co. IL, died 1931. Luther married Ida Storment born 1878, died 1961.

  2. Agnes Bell was born 1874 Marion Co. IL, died 1945. Agnes married William Wilson born 1876, died 1929.

  3. Arthur Bell was born 1878 Marion Co. IL, died 1939. Arthur married Lulu Moyle born 1884, died 1967.

  4. Chester Bell was born 1882 Marion Co. IL, died 1951. Chester married Effa Montcitt born 1881, died 1976.

  5. Ernest Bell was born 1887 Randolph Co. IL, d 1952. Ernest married Olive Elliott.


Ernest Edwin Bell (son of Greenbury Bell and Susan Knight) was born in 1887 in Randolph Co., IL. He died 1952 in Randolph Co., IL. Ernest married in 1915 in Macoupin Co., IL to Olive Sarah Elliott. Olive Sarah Elliot was born in 1888 in Williamson Co., IL. Olive died in 1973 in Randolph Co., IL.




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