The Anniston Star
July 28, 1972
Gradie Higginbotham Carlisle Bell (1911-1972) AL/CA/TX
Mrs. Grady Bell
Pell City - Mrs. Grady Carlisle Bell, 59, of Bellflower, Calif., died Wednesday at a Longview, Tex., hospital after a brief illness.
Funeral services were scheduled today at 2 p.m. at Providence Baptist Church in Ragland with the Rev. John Hastins officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery with Kilgore Funeral Home in charge.
Clipping from unknown newspaper, probably The Birmingham News or Daily Home
SAMUEL EDWARD BROWN, 46, of Ragland, died Monday, June 25 [1979].
Brown is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gaylon Phillips Brown; two sons, Jim Edward and Keith Elbert Brown; and one daughter, Miss Samantha Brown, all of Ragland.
Other survivors include his parents, Mr. And Mrs. Elbert Brown of Pell City; and two sisters, Mrs. Doris Parnell of Ragland, and Mrs. Elizabeth Walker of Mobile.
*****Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870
compiled by the Historical Activities Committee
Mrs. Orville Lay, State Chairman for the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama
pg 302
Mrs. Reuben Saffold (Mary Phillips), of Dallas Co, AL, dau of Colonel Joseph Phillips & Jane Walker Phillips of Morgan Co, GA, had 12 children.