Edwin Grice Bell was the son of Laura Page Grice and Elijah Bell.
Edwin married Ida Louise "Mannie Gray" White on February 27, 1907 at the home of her aunt Sarah Sebastian and uncle Addison Robert Fisher in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
Mr. Bell was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee to partner with his brother John Elijah Bell in Bell and Bell attorneys of law. Later they partnered with Col. W. L. Terry in Bell, Terry and Bell attorneys at law.
Mr. Bell who was in poor health continued to attend his law practice and enjoyed quite a reputation as a trail advocate and appeared in many important cases in both circuit and chancery court in Memphis. On one occasion he won a $42,500 judgement against the Sheriff of Shelby County on behalf of an African American man who alleged that his house had been dynamited by deputies.
Edwin married Ida Louise "Mannie Gray" White on February 27, 1907 at the home of her aunt Sarah Sebastian and uncle Addison Robert Fisher in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
Mr. Bell was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee to partner with his brother John Elijah Bell in Bell and Bell attorneys of law. Later they partnered with Col. W. L. Terry in Bell, Terry and Bell attorneys at law.
Mr. Bell who was in poor health continued to attend his law practice and enjoyed quite a reputation as a trail advocate and appeared in many important cases in both circuit and chancery court in Memphis. On one occasion he won a $42,500 judgement against the Sheriff of Shelby County on behalf of an African American man who alleged that his house had been dynamited by deputies.
Edwin Grice Bell was the son of Laura Page Grice and Elijah Bell.
Edwin married Ida Louise "Mannie Gray" White on February 27, 1907 at the home of her aunt Sarah Sebastian and uncle Addison Robert Fisher in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
Mr. Bell was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee to partner with his brother John Elijah Bell in Bell and Bell attorneys of law. Later they partnered with Col. W. L. Terry in Bell, Terry and Bell attorneys at law.
Mr. Bell who was in poor health continued to attend his law practice and enjoyed quite a reputation as a trail advocate and appeared in many important cases in both circuit and chancery court in Memphis. On one occasion he won a $42,500 judgement against the Sheriff of Shelby County on behalf of an African American man who alleged that his house had been dynamited by deputies.
Edwin married Ida Louise "Mannie Gray" White on February 27, 1907 at the home of her aunt Sarah Sebastian and uncle Addison Robert Fisher in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
Mr. Bell was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee to partner with his brother John Elijah Bell in Bell and Bell attorneys of law. Later they partnered with Col. W. L. Terry in Bell, Terry and Bell attorneys at law.
Mr. Bell who was in poor health continued to attend his law practice and enjoyed quite a reputation as a trail advocate and appeared in many important cases in both circuit and chancery court in Memphis. On one occasion he won a $42,500 judgement against the Sheriff of Shelby County on behalf of an African American man who alleged that his house had been dynamited by deputies.
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