This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/599.1.1 Message Board Post: I am attempting to find out the father of my husband's great grandfather, Louis Humphery Bell(born 1861). He was a minister who was reportedly born in Choctaw County, MS and was a "love child" of a woman named Fletcher and a Bell man. They say he took his father's name. He did live in Pickens County at one time as an adult. He married Jessie (Jessica) Cook and they had three children, Eva, Bonnie Hayes (My husband's grandfather) and Ida (Died as a young child). Jessie died in Pickens County and is buried there someplace. He later moved back to Choctaw County MS and married Minnie Horton and had other children. If you see anything familiar that might link him with your Bells please let me know.