The James Bell Settlement Graveyard was visited and inventoried on February 16, 2002 by Robert and Stephanie Warren and Lynn and Wayne Britt. They found markers for sixty-six graves. The cemetery has 78 graves on record.
The fenced cemetery is located between Ledbetter and Waldeck on Bell Settlement Road, an extremely rough, gravel road. The cemetery is very shaded, surrounded by tall trees. It is listed on some county maps as Bell Cemetery. Cemetery meeting dates are the second Saturdays of June and October at 9:30 a. m. Contact numbers are listed near the gate. This photograph of the new cemetery sign was provided by Dale Schultz.
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.
