Bell Settlement Cemetery

Nechanitz, TX; This cemetery is in Fayette County, but many Lee County residents were buried there, so it included in our list.

These 2 pictures courtesy of Fayette County TXGenWeb

This sign at the base of the cemetery's flagpole honors two Fayette County men who lost their lives during the Civil War. Both were privates in the Long Prairie German Company and Company E of Waul's Texas Legion. Seibelt Hinrich Behrens, 28 Mar 1829 - 9 Jun 1863, died of wounds at Vicksburg. Hinrich Enno Schumann, 30 Oct 1841 - 10 Nov 1862, died of illness at Oxford. Both are buried in unmarked graves in Mississippi.

Click here to see the transcription submitted by Marshal Wilke, mrwilke@sbcglobal.net an officer of the Bell Settlement Graveyard Association and has offered to do lookups for this cemetery.

Also, Willie Schumann: schumann.willy@yahoo.com has offered to do lookups.

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
ALBERS, Ollie	- - -	- - -
ASCHEN, Tina (nee Behrens)	28 Nov 1826	15 Jan 1900
BEHRENS, ?	- - -	- - -
BEHRENS, Christine Henrichs	28 Aug 1818	27 Jan 1873
BEHRENS, H.W.	27-Dec-1869	3-Nov-1870
Behrens, Siebels	22-Feb-1786	1865
BEHRENS, Heinrich Wilhelm	09 Aug 1866	06 Sep 1867
Behrens, Trientje Ennen	1791	1863
DEERE, Hiram	- - -
DEERE, Iris	- - -	- - -
ILGEN, Auguste Margarethe Caroline	27 May 1864	30 Oct 1882
ILGEN, Johan Gottliebilgen	21 Sep 1823	23 Feb 1881
JUENGERMANN, Anna	30 Mar 1817	19 Feb 1868	w/ Johann Juengermann
JUENGERMANN, Johann	15 Jun 1809	25 Sep 1888	w/ Anna Juengermann
KRAUSS, ?	- - -	- - -
Krauss, Georg Rudolph	12-Feb-1820	21-Aug-1876
KRAUSS, George Rudolph	12 Feb 1820	21 Aug 1876
KREICHEL, Carl	25 Jul 1876	15 Apr 1877
KREICHEL, Friedrich	05 May 1820	06 May 1911
KREICHEL, Freidrich Karl	- - -	1863
KREICHEL, J.	- - -	- - -
KREICHEL, Louise W.J.	- - -	- - -
KREICHEL, Wilhelm	11 Jan 18--	29 Jul 18--
KREICHELT, Gesine Lidia Johanna	- - -	- - -
KREICHELT, Otto	- - -	- - -
MUELLER, Albert	13 Apr 1877	11 Jun 1950
MUELLER, Annie	06 Oct 1889	08 Mar 1967	see above
MUELLER, Edward A.	04 Dec 1908	21 Jun 1977
MUELLER, Edwin W.	19 Feb 1915	02 Sep 1978
MUELLER, Friedrich	19 Aug 1848	13 Mar 1906
MUELLER, Lina	16 Apr 1849	18 Dec 1921
MUELLER, Lina M. (nee Weber)	21 Jan 1869	11 Jan 1945
MUELLER, Otto	01 May 1875	15 May 1959
MUELLER, Vestrine L.	24 May 1918	- - -
MUELLER, W.F. Adolph	26 May 1872	13 Apr 1946	Father
MUELLER, Walter C.	22 Nov 1903	08 Aug 1939
PERRIRA, Marie H.	12 May 1862	19 Apr 1887
RETHKE, ?	- - -	- - -
RETHKE, A.	- - -	- - -
RETHKE, Albert	09 Nov 1880	09 Feb 1905	Son of F.W. & Eviline Rethke
RETHKE, Alex	18 Jul 1872	28 Mar 1962
RETHKE, Annie	17 Jan 1876	20 Aug 1946
RETHKE, Drucilla C. (nee Williams)	1875	1905	Wife of Alex Rethke
RETHKE, Eviline	28 Aug 1853	09 Dec 1912
RETHKE, Friedrich	03 Nov 1813	23 Sep 1898
RETHKE, Fritz	30 Mar 1847	02 Apr 1919
RETHKE, Tennie	26 Nov 1877	19 Sep 1888
RETHKE, Will	- - -	- - -	Fall 1897 (death?)
SCHOTT, Frank	15 Jun 1859	14 Jun 1939
SCHOTT, Johann K.	19 Sep 1872	21 Mar 1965	see above
SCHUMANN, Elvis	25 Feb 1941	03 Dec 2002
SCHUMANN, Lillie A.	10 Aug 1920	18 Oct 2002
SCHUMANN, Louis R.	29 Jan 1917	07 Jul 1981
SCHUMANN, Willie	- - -	- - -
SOHR, Carl F.	11 Apr 1851	13 Jan 1925
SOHR, Wilhelmine	08 Mar 1866	19 Dec 1957
STORCH, ?	- - -	- - -
STORCH, ?	- - -	- - -
STORCH, ?	- - -	- - -
STORCH, Betty	- - -	- - -
STORCH, Elise Pauline	17 Feb 1882	30 Mar 1889
STORCH, Johann Valentin	16 Jun 1823	17 Jun 1881	m. Bertha Elisa Karlberg
STORCH, Louis	16 Aug 1857	26 Sep 1927	m. Pauline Gross
STORCH, Mary L.	19 Oct 1883	21 Feb 1925
STORCH, Pauline (nee Gross)	23 Jun 1865	13 Jul 1942	m. Louis Storch
STORCH, ?	- - -	- - -
WENDLER, Emma	02 Jul 1879	19 Oct 1962
WENDLER, Hermann	05 Mar1876	23 Aug 1936	See above with Emma
WENDLER, Irene L.	18 Aug 1910	10 May 1980
WENDLER, Isidor Erhard	09 Jan 1850	13 Feb 1918
WENDLER, Juanita	01 May 1920	18 Jul 1922
WENDLER, Linnie A.	09 Aug 1937	01 Jan 1939
WENDLER, Louis	19 Jan 1898	07 Jan 1986
WENDLER, Minna	19 Mar 1856	23 Apr 1904	See Isidor Wendler
WENDLER, Otto	1888	1891
ZWERNEMANN, Bertha Louise	08 Sep 1803	19 Jan 1900