Caleb Angle 1819-1877
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Lavinia Angle 1828-1910
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Caleb was a miller. He and Lavinia had
three children - all born in Franklin County, Virginia
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· Mary Angle was born in 1862.
· Hugh Mercer Angle was born in1864 and died in 1926.
· George Walter Angle was born in 1867.
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NOTES
-George Walter Angle married Bessie L. Bell on Oct. 12, 1892 in Grogginsville, VA.
-George and Bessie were the grandparents of Robert Bruce Angle.
-1900 census records George working at a creamery.
-1910 census shows him as a teamster in Butler County.
-In 1920 George is noted as a salesman.
-Bessie L. Bell was born February 2, 1872 in Little Creek, Franklin County, VA—the third of eight children—and died October 26, 1955.
-Bessie’s parents were Leslie Combs Bell, born in Otter River, Bedford, VA in 1840 and died in 1920 in Waterbury, CN, and Mosby E. Reynolds (1846-1923).
-Mosby was the daughter of Thomas Larkin Reynolds and Madeline G.B. Wade. Madeline was born in 1846 and died in1923 Waterbury, CN.
-Leslie Combs Bell, great-grandfather of Robert Bruce Angle, was one of the eight children of William L. Bell (1792- ) and Elizabeth Leftwich. William was a merchant and farmer. The 1860 census indicates real estate value of $12,500 and personal property of $8000 with slaves living and working on his farm. That same census notes Leslie at 19—a farm laborer.
-Leslie Combs Bell enlisted at age 20 and served in the Civil War – Company F, 28th Infantry Virginia. He was wounded at Gettysburg and was prisoner of war in 1865 at Point Lookout before being released. He is buried in Sunnyside Cemetery in Bedford, VA.
Caleb Angle 1819-1877
