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Achievement: Leslie Irbie Bell of Duck Hill won first place in the Forestry division of the Production Achievement Program contest sponsored by the Daily Clarion Ledger and Department of Vocational Agriculture. The awards were made at a banquet in Jackson Tuesday, December 8th, 1953. For winning first place in forestry,
L. I. Bell received a Ford tractor, donated by Ellis Mercury and Tractor Co., of Winona. This made the fourth tractor won by contestants from Montgomery County residents. [1]
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[1] Compiled from articles in the Winona Times and the Clarion Ledger.
Leslie Irbie Bell was bom April 16,1906 to James Randolph and Druetta Carolyn Adair Bell, Duck Hill, Ms. in the old log home located at what is now 1001 Fishers Crossing Rd. He remembers that at two years of age his brothers scared him with a shell of a locust. He said he was scared to death. His childhood friends were Ralph Taylor and the Latham children. He lived in Winona for about two years. This was when he was quite small. He lived near the railroad on the south end of town near the railroad depot. His father then purchsed land out on Fishers Crossing Rd. which is known as the old home place now owned by Patricia Bell Adolf. He and his friend, Ralph Taylor had a dog named Sport. They would go bird hunting with this dog. Daddy and Ralph had many years of friendship. Ralph's mother, Donnie Taylor told me that Ralph and Irbie had a goat. They hitched the goat to a wagon and road all over the hillside. One day the decided to Baptize the goat. They tried all day long to get the goat under the water and never succeeded. Miss Donnie Taylor said she laughed and laughed. She was watching them trying to do the job. She said she guessed that the goat didn't want to be saved.
Irbie grew up on a farm east of Duck Hill on Fisher Crossing Rd. He started school at Robinson "Red Bug" school on Sweet Home Rd. Montgomery County in 1911, and attended through the fourth grade. His older sister, Ethel, taught him one year. He started in the fifth grade at Montgomery County Agriculture School, Kilmichael, Ms. This was a boarding school. He lived in an apartment in a private home with his two sisters, Alice and Bertha, who also attended this school. After his sisters graduated he lived in the dormatory. Irbie graduated from this school in 1924.
Source: Information from Leslie Irbie Bell told to his daughter Evelyn Bell Crouch.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF PLAQUEMINES
Be it remembered, That on the 30 day of December 1933, L. I. Bell and Lelia Fayne stiller both residents of the Parish aforesaid, personally appeared before me Henry Gehbauer, Justice of Peach together with Henry (Hy.) Stiller, Margaret Stiller and Elizabeth Stiller all witnesses of full age and residents of said Parish and that then and there the said L. I. Bell and Lelia Fayne Stiller having produced the license required by law, signify their desire and intention before us the said Justice of Peach and witnesses, to be united in matrimony; whereupon after due proclamation made, and no impediment being suggested, they, the said L. I. Bell and Lelia Fayne Stiller were by me the said Justice of Peace in presence of the said witnesses, joined in wedlock, according to the laws of the State of Louisiana and were duly pronounced to be man and wife.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties to the said marriage hereunto affix their signature together with me the said Justice of Peace and the aforesaid witnesses, on this 30 day of December 1933.
RECORDED PARISH OF PLAQUMINES IN MARRIAGE OFFICE BOOK "C" ON THE 2ND, DAU OF JANUARY 1934, FOLIO 189.
Signed, A. L. Lobrano Dep. Clerk of Court.
Leslie and Lelia had the following children:
+	49 F	i. Evelyn Louise Bell was bom on 25 Oct 1934.
+	50 F	ii. Karen Ann Bell was bom on 22 Oct 1941.
25.	Caroline Elizabeth Stiller (Gertrude Margaret Dom, Lelia Annie Walters, Theodore, Thomas
Hy. Stiller }
Margaret Stiller } Witnesses Elizabeth Stiller}
L. I. Bell
Lelia Stiller Henry Gehbauer
26 Apr 2002
Descendants of Thomas Robiston, Sr. Walters
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