Billy Bell was one of the prime movers in the association of 8th Canadian Hussars. , a natural organization.
Billy was a sergeant with A squadron in the 8th Hussars - he had be shot out of a tank seven times . He was a valued and respected member of his community and a long time director of the 8th Hussars Association. He was awarded the Canadian 125th Commemorative Medal for his outstanding service and the town of Hampton had honored him by naming a street William Bell Drive.

Hazel Lawrence Deinstadt Bell, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas James Deinstadt (1840-1926) and Rebecca McCallum Beer (d. 1922), the daughter of John Beer, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was born on 7 October 1889 in the Exmouth Street Wesleyan Methodist parsonage, in Saint John, New Brunswick. The Deinstadts had five other daughters -- Marguerite (Bell), Maud, Lillian J. (d. 1924), Janet Louise (McMann), and Irene. Hazel Deinstadt's father served as pastor of Exmouth Street Methodist Church on three separate occasions, 1870-1873, 1888-1891, and 1899-1908. He also served at churches in Moncton, New Brunswick, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Hazel Deinstadt received some of her early education in Saint John. Between 1908 and 1910, she attended the Mount Allison Ladies College in keeping with family tradition. During World War I, she volunteered for overseas work while training as a nurse in a Toronto hospital. She arrived in London, in January 1916, and gained some experience with the Canadian Red Cross before heading for France. She worked as a nurse at a hospital at Arc-En-Barrois, Haute-Marne, located near Verdun, caring for wounded soldiers. She stayed there at least three years before returning to Saint John in the fall of 1918. While visiting her family, she helped raise funds for the volunteer hospital at Arc-en-Barrois.

After the war, Hazel Deinstadt married Winthrop Pickard Bell, the son of Andrew Mackinlay Bell (1847-1918) and Mary Emerancy Pickard (1847-1918), on 7 October 1925, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her sister, Marguerite Deinstadt had married Winthrop Bell's brother, Ralph Bell. After her marriage, Hazel Bell moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Winthrop Bell resumed teaching at Harvard University. They returned to Nova Scotia, in 1927, and made their home at Lockeport, where Dr. Bell was involved with his brother's fishing company. They also lived at Chester Basin, Nova Scotia.

During World War II, Hazel Bell was actively involved with the work of the Canadian Red Cross. She cared for small children from England until health troubles and exhaustion restricted her work. Hazel Deinstadt Bell died in the Mahone Nursing Home, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, on 24 January 1966 and was buried in the Old Baptist Burying Grounds, in Chester. Her husband predeceased her, passing away on 4 April 1965.

Sources: Daniel F. Johnson's Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers on-line; MC6; RS141 Vital Statistics from Government Records; and finding aid for the Winthrop Pickard Bell fonds at Mount Allison University Archives, Sackville, N.B.

This collection was compiled by Edwin Wallace Bell and Dudley Johnson Bell, sons of James A. Bell and Deborah Kenny. The research material it contains forms the content of the book, "Israel Kenny His Children and Their Families" by Edwin Wallace Bell, which appeared in 1944. Well-known New Brunswick historian Lilian M. B. Maxwell supplied the introduction.

Born on 23 October 1739 at Worcester, Massachusetts, Israel Kenny was a pre-Loyalist or Planter who came to what is now New Brunswick in 1767. He settled first at Maugerville, Sunbury County and then at Oromocto. He and his wife Susannah Hood had 14 children, three of whom remained in the Oromocto area, while the others relocated to Carleton County, N.B. around 1800. Israel Kenny drowned in 1791, attempting to cross the St. John River on the ice.

By the mid-20th century, the descendants of Israel Kenny in North America totalled over 2,000. The appearance of "Israel Kenny His Children and Their Families" sparked a revival in the publication of works on genealogy in New Brunswick not seen since the late 19th century.

Samuel William Bell, the son of Erlon W. Bell (1857c-1925) and Clarabelle Haining (1863-1934), was born in Bristol, New Brunswick, in 1902, the grandson of James Bell possibly from Galloway, Scotland. Erlon made his living working in mills in Bristol and Fort Fairfield, Me., but moved his family to Stickney, New Brunswick, in 1904 after the second of his two sawmills at Bristol was destroyed by fire. Erlon operated a farm in Stickney, and later built a grist mill, a shingle mill, and a sawmill. His son, Samuel, worked with him after 1918.

Sam Bell was involved in lumbering for more than 50 years. In July 1951 his old sawmill burnt, but a new one was constructed the following year. About 1963 it was upgraded from steam power to electricity. Bell eventually amalgamated his company with John Flemming's at Juniper and became general manager of the mills at Stickney and Juniper. In 1967 the company acquired the holdings of the Miramichi Forest Products Company, Ltd. of Blackville, N. B.

Sam Bell died in 1968, and the management of his business was taken over by Dead River Company, Ltd. of Fredericton. In 1972 three companies, Flemming and Gibson Ltd., S.W. Bell (1967) Ltd., and Miramichi Forest Products Ltd were amalgamated as Flemming-Gibson Industries Ltd.

Richard Bellamy was born in 1827 in London, England, the son of George and Nancy Bellamy. He immigrated to New Brunswick at the age of nine with the "Blue Coat Emigrants".
Bellamy settled in Stanley, York County, where he was involved in business and surveying. Later he moved to Nackawic where he owned and operated a large farm. He served one term on the Municipal Council Board. He was first elected to the New Brunswick Assembly as a Liberal member for York County in 1886. He was re-elected in 1890, but when the election was protested, he resigned and did not run again. In 1891, he took a seat on the Legislative Council of New Brunswick and sat until the dissolution of that body in April, 1892. Bellamy never married, and died at Nackawic in November, 1892.

Since 2006, students of Belleisle Regional High School, located in Springfield, NB have been researching soldiers who fought and died during the First and Second World Wars. Most of these soldiers are from the Kings County, NB area. In the last two years students have been researching soldiers who died while with the 8th Hussars. To date Belleisle students have researched more than 130 soldiers.
Grade 11 Modern History students work on these projects over a six week period. They have access to the military files from Library and Archives Canada and do further research using the internet and regimental histories. We are fortunate to obtain additional information and pictures for some soldiers from family relatives. The written biographies are also posted to the Canadian Virtual War Museum website.
In their grade 12 year the same group of students continue to honour these men as they create a movie slide show with text, images and music. These movies are presented to other students here at our school and the neighbouring elementary school during the week prior to Remembrance Day. They are also posted to Youtube. A copy of these discs is given to local legions, local museums, families of the fallen soldier and to the various regiments for whom the soldiers served. Some museums, such as the 8th Hussars Museum, have included the videos on their websites and / or provided for continuous viewing in their exhibit rooms.
This project has been a very enriching experience for these students.
Stephen Wilson
Belleisle Regional High School

Hilton Arthur Belyea was born in 1885 in Saint John, New Brunswick, son of James W. and Susan A. Peters. He married Minnie Gard McKenzie in 1907 and had two daughters. Hilton Belyea died in 1968 in Albany, New York.

He was the owner of Carleton Skating Rink in Saint John and when the family moved to Albany, New York, in 1928 he became the department head of G.L.F. Mill.

He was a well-known athlete and sportsman and had a long and successful career in rowing and speed skating. He won the Wigmore Cup in 1922 and 1923. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics for sculling and set the world record in the one-and-one-half mile single sculls in 1921.

Ben Obermann is possibly Ben Obermann of Franklin Maine [1944-2011].

A pastoral charge is a grouping of churches termed "preaching points" -- each with separate names and governing boards or sessions. These churches are served by one minister. The pastoral charge title usually reflects the breadth of the geographic area encompassing the charge.

Bethany United Church of the Bethany Pastoral Charge began as a mission Sunday School organized by the Halifax Sunday School Association of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church in 1860. The church building was opened in 1867 on a hill overlooking the Arm Bridge on land donated by John Hostermann, who owned Hostermann's Mill.

In 1868, Bethany was a Mission Charge which included North West Arm and Richmond. In 1870, Goodwood was added to the pastoral charge of North West Arm Presbyterian Church. The church had been built in 1842. From 1871-1875, the Mission Charge was made up of Goodwood, North West Arm and Richmond, and became Goodwood and North West Arm from 1876-1896. Richmond became a separate pastoral charge in 1880.

In 1882, Goodwood and North West Arm were recognized as a regular Mission Station of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. The Church was called the North West Arm Presbyterian Church, until 1897 when the congregation incorporated under the name Bethany Presbyterian Church of North West Arm.

Bethany became an Ordained Mission Charge and from 1896-1913 and was comprised of the congregation of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Goodwood and Rockingham.
Bethany Presbyterian Church joined the Established Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1915 and remained Bethany Presbyterian Church.

In 1925, Bethany Presbyterian Church became part of The United Church of Canada and the name was changed to Bethany United Church. A new church building was erected on Dutch Village Road near the North West Arm in 1928, which served the Congregation until 1958. This building is currently used as a Chapel and a day-care centre. The new church building erected in 1958 is located on Clinton Avenue adjacent to the 1928 church building.