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Is it true that John Bell and Kate Batts were “involved,” and had a falling-out that resulted in him killing her and her coming back from “the other side” to haunt him?

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Is it true that John Bell and Kate Batts were “involved,” and had a falling-out that resulted in him killing her and her coming back from “the other side” to haunt him?

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No. There is no evidence that suggests they were “involved.” On the contrary, there is abundant evidence suggesting that they would NOT have been “involved.” For example, John Bell was married to Lucy Williams Bell (you can find a reference to this in the Last Will and Testament of John Williams, Lucy’s father), and Kate Batts was married to Frederick Batts (you can find a reference to this in Halifax Co., North Carolina marriage records and several Robertson Co., TN real estate and probate records. Mrs. Batts actually OUTLIVED John and Lucy Bell both (this can be found in Robertson Co. TN probate records, including a Trustee’s accounting of the estate settlement). How could Mrs. Batts have come back from the dead and haunted the Bells when she outlived them? In addition, John Bell was at a much higher socio-economic station than Mrs. Batts was (estate valuation and settlement records clearly attest to this). While this doesn’t actually prove they were not “involved,” it nevertheless p

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