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I forgot to write down his name, if you do know please let me know. At the photo shoot-out we had some tough times getting good poses in, when my turn came about I just asked him if he ever worked on the railroad. Of course with a grin he replied that he worked in the N&W rail yards in Virginia for 13 years. When I asked him if he was proud for working with the N&W his body took this statue when he gave me the reply.
Zima w Polsce, widok na Tatry
Winter in Poland, Tatra Mountains
Fot. Mariusz Cieszewski / www.fotcom.biz
After a walk through the forest, I looked up to find the sound that a bird was making when the view fascinated me. I pointed my camera upwards almost falling over to take this shot :)
Jesse W. Bell
Born: December 11, 1887 Maysville, NC in Jones County, NC
Died: September 30,1918 from Lobar Pneumonia following influenza on September 30, 1918 while serving in the army at Camp Colt, PA during WWI.
He was inducted into the army at Jacksonville, NC on July 5, 1918. He received his basic training at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. He was transferred to Fort Monroe, Virginia on July 25, 1918 and to Camp Colt, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1918, where he died of lobar pneumonia, a victim of the flu. He held the rank of Private. He never married. After his death, his mother, Laura, received a pension.
Jesse Bell was a younger brother of my grand father, George M. Bell. He was the fifth son of John A. and Francis Bell out of eight named children. (There was another unamed child,)
I find it quite remarkable that he also had five brothers and two sisters, just like I have. Also in his family just like in mine, there were five boys before a girl was born. Also our families have in common that there was one child who died in childbirth.
He was buried in the Bell Family Cemetery of of Koonce Fork road near Richlands in Onslow County NC .
His grave marker honors the Woodmen of the World and reads:
Jesse W. Bell
BORN
Dec. 11, 1887
DIED
Sept. 30, 1918.
There was an influenza outbreak in North Carolina and nationwide 1918-1919.
statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/INFLUENZA/NCInfluenza.htm
In April 1919, the Secretary of the State Board of Health, Dr. William Rankin, reported the death of over 13,600 North Carolinians from influenza, and estimated that approximately 1,000,000 of North Carolina's 2.5 million inhabitants had caught the disease. Nationally, the disease killed perhaps 700,000, and some estimates suggest 20,000,000 died worldwide.
Coming as it did during the height of the United States' involvement in World War One, such measures as the state took to combat "the grippe," as it was sometimes known, were often overshadowed by the patriotic fervor accompanying the war.
William Frank "Sandy" Holdsworth bought a London cycle works in 1927, continued his day job in life insurance, hired his brother-in-law as shop manager, and began making W. F. Holdsworth bicycles. The Holdsworth company name is now owned by Planet X Bikes, which still sells Holdsworth bicycles.
Better than the one without the effect on the eye?
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Needing to be in front of the camera.
(Original posting with descriptions and comments can be found here: www.deviantart.com/deviation/47519185/ )
William Blyth tileworks Barton-on-Humber. Their works in this area have been producing hand made roofing tiles for around 160 years. This site has been temporarily closed whilst the kilns are refurbished and production is expected to resume at some point.