The story starts with John Bell, a farmer from North Carolina who moved with his family to a 320-acre, northern Robertson County farm in 1804. For more than a decade, the Bell family lived in ...

centered around the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell Sr resided with his family along the Red River in an area currently near the town of Adams.

Such is the case with the legend of the Bell Witch, a tale that's been a part of Southern folklore for almost two centuries. The story begins in 1817, when a farmer named John Bell moved from ...

Was the legendary Bell Witch to blame? John Bell (1750-1820) was a prominent farmer in Robertson County, Tenn., in a community then known as Red River, according to an account by author Pat ...