Judge Henry Denmark Bell
Nashville, TN
A descendant of the Cumberland Valley's first settlers, Judge Henry Denmark Bell was born on August 21, 1925, in Knoxville, TN, the third and last child of Charles Caldwell Bell of Springfield, TN, and Mary Lane Denmark Bell, of Valdosta, GA.
In 1937, the Bell family moved to Nashville, where Denmark Bell attended the Woodmont School, and then the Duncan School. In 1943, he entered the V-12 naval officer training program at Tulane University in New Orleans. After further training in Chicago and Miami, he was commissioned as an ensign and sailed a tugboat to Hawaii, where he finished the war years as captain of a water barge. At the war's end, he returned to Nashville to complete his undergraduate and law degrees at Vanderbilt University.
Upon passing the bar, he founded a law firm with classmates Robert Warner and Ward Dewitt, but the three partners soon joined larger Nashville firms, with Bell going to Tyne, Sugg, and West. In 1952, he married Georgia Allen Wigginton of Nashville, and a couple of years later moved to a farm in Williamson County, where he resided until his death. In 1967, he opened a private law practice in Franklin, TN, where he later served as Williamson County Attorney. From 1974 until retirement in 1997, he served as judge on the 21st Judicial Circuit, covering Williamson, Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties.
He is survived by his son, Madison Smartt Bell, his granddaughter, Celia Dovell Bell, his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Kay Spires, and nieces and nephews: Tom Pellett, Lane Quinn, Tracy Pellett, Charles Pellett, Marguerite Hogan, and Joan Webb.
Graveside service at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
Parent links provided by Linda Moore Mora
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Nashville, TN
A descendant of the Cumberland Valley's first settlers, Judge Henry Denmark Bell was born on August 21, 1925, in Knoxville, TN, the third and last child of Charles Caldwell Bell of Springfield, TN, and Mary Lane Denmark Bell, of Valdosta, GA.
In 1937, the Bell family moved to Nashville, where Denmark Bell attended the Woodmont School, and then the Duncan School. In 1943, he entered the V-12 naval officer training program at Tulane University in New Orleans. After further training in Chicago and Miami, he was commissioned as an ensign and sailed a tugboat to Hawaii, where he finished the war years as captain of a water barge. At the war's end, he returned to Nashville to complete his undergraduate and law degrees at Vanderbilt University.
Upon passing the bar, he founded a law firm with classmates Robert Warner and Ward Dewitt, but the three partners soon joined larger Nashville firms, with Bell going to Tyne, Sugg, and West. In 1952, he married Georgia Allen Wigginton of Nashville, and a couple of years later moved to a farm in Williamson County, where he resided until his death. In 1967, he opened a private law practice in Franklin, TN, where he later served as Williamson County Attorney. From 1974 until retirement in 1997, he served as judge on the 21st Judicial Circuit, covering Williamson, Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties.
He is survived by his son, Madison Smartt Bell, his granddaughter, Celia Dovell Bell, his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Kay Spires, and nieces and nephews: Tom Pellett, Lane Quinn, Tracy Pellett, Charles Pellett, Marguerite Hogan, and Joan Webb.
Graveside service at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
Parent links provided by Linda Moore Mora
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Judge Henry Denmark Bell
Nashville, TN
A descendant of the Cumberland Valley's first settlers, Judge Henry Denmark Bell was born on August 21, 1925, in Knoxville, TN, the third and last child of Charles Caldwell Bell of Springfield, TN, and Mary Lane Denmark Bell, of Valdosta, GA.
In 1937, the Bell family moved to Nashville, where Denmark Bell attended the Woodmont School, and then the Duncan School. In 1943, he entered the V-12 naval officer training program at Tulane University in New Orleans. After further training in Chicago and Miami, he was commissioned as an ensign and sailed a tugboat to Hawaii, where he finished the war years as captain of a water barge. At the war's end, he returned to Nashville to complete his undergraduate and law degrees at Vanderbilt University.
Upon passing the bar, he founded a law firm with classmates Robert Warner and Ward Dewitt, but the three partners soon joined larger Nashville firms, with Bell going to Tyne, Sugg, and West. In 1952, he married Georgia Allen Wigginton of Nashville, and a couple of years later moved to a farm in Williamson County, where he resided until his death. In 1967, he opened a private law practice in Franklin, TN, where he later served as Williamson County Attorney. From 1974 until retirement in 1997, he served as judge on the 21st Judicial Circuit, covering Williamson, Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties.
He is survived by his son, Madison Smartt Bell, his granddaughter, Celia Dovell Bell, his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Kay Spires, and nieces and nephews: Tom Pellett, Lane Quinn, Tracy Pellett, Charles Pellett, Marguerite Hogan, and Joan Webb.
Graveside service at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
Parent links provided by Linda Moore Mora
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Nashville, TN
A descendant of the Cumberland Valley's first settlers, Judge Henry Denmark Bell was born on August 21, 1925, in Knoxville, TN, the third and last child of Charles Caldwell Bell of Springfield, TN, and Mary Lane Denmark Bell, of Valdosta, GA.
In 1937, the Bell family moved to Nashville, where Denmark Bell attended the Woodmont School, and then the Duncan School. In 1943, he entered the V-12 naval officer training program at Tulane University in New Orleans. After further training in Chicago and Miami, he was commissioned as an ensign and sailed a tugboat to Hawaii, where he finished the war years as captain of a water barge. At the war's end, he returned to Nashville to complete his undergraduate and law degrees at Vanderbilt University.
Upon passing the bar, he founded a law firm with classmates Robert Warner and Ward Dewitt, but the three partners soon joined larger Nashville firms, with Bell going to Tyne, Sugg, and West. In 1952, he married Georgia Allen Wigginton of Nashville, and a couple of years later moved to a farm in Williamson County, where he resided until his death. In 1967, he opened a private law practice in Franklin, TN, where he later served as Williamson County Attorney. From 1974 until retirement in 1997, he served as judge on the 21st Judicial Circuit, covering Williamson, Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties.
He is survived by his son, Madison Smartt Bell, his granddaughter, Celia Dovell Bell, his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Kay Spires, and nieces and nephews: Tom Pellett, Lane Quinn, Tracy Pellett, Charles Pellett, Marguerite Hogan, and Joan Webb.
Graveside service at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
Parent links provided by Linda Moore Mora
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