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Richard B. Bell
Smyrna Depot Clerk
Biography
Richard B. Bell, son of Dr. W.R. Bell of Atlanta, died Feb. 27, 1874, at his father’s home on Luckie Street after an illness with consumption. He was 22 years old.
Bell had worked for four years as a clerk at the Smyrna depot for the Western and Atlantic Railroad, where he was regarded as diligent and faithful. Known as a moral and intelligent young man, his death was considered a great loss to family and friends.
Funeral services and burial were scheduled to be held at Smyrna Church.
Sanford Luilem Bell
Conductor
Biography
Sanford L. Bell joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad as a conductor in 1852.
J. H. Bishop
Transfer Clerk
Biography
J.H. Bishop joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1873.
W. R. Bittick
Engineer
Biography
William Rollie Bittick was born on April 1, 1871.
Bittick was the engineer of the Con T. Kennedy circus extra that collided with a Central of Georgia Railway passenger train near Muscogee, Georgia, in November 1915. He retired from the railroad on April 30, 1941, after 38 years and five months of service.
John Isaac Black
Engineer
Biography
John Black of Paris, Tennessee, was the engineer on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad train that plunged from an open drawbridge in Clarksville, Tennessee, into the Cumberland River 50 feet below on June 13, 1947.