Bell's Chapel Cemetery

Bell's Chapel was located just south of Rockett on Bell's Chapel Road. This community had its beginning in 1846 when John Bell, his family and his brothers, Joseph and Robert Bell, came from Virginia to this area. They built the first two log cabins on Brushy Creek in 1848. Soon a group decided to build a Methodist church and buy land for a cemetery. In September, 1875, they acquired a deed for two and three-fourths acres of land from the Squire A. Rockett estate, paying $65 for it. Red Oak Masonic Lodge No. 461 proposed to the trustees that its members be allowed to help with building the church and to add a second story which would be a meeting place for the lodge. Read more at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txellis/ghost-towns/chap.htm