Celia was born on 9 June 1833. She was the daughter of
Charles Bell and
Jane (?). She married
James Strong Brice at
South Carolina on 11 May 1850. Celia died on 19 June 1852 at
Typhoid fever at age 19. Obituary:
"Departed this life of Friday morning the 25th June at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Jane Bell, Little River, Fairfield District. Isabella J. Bell, in her fourteenth year...She was preceded on her passage out this life by her sister, Mrs. Celia Brice, on the preceding Saturday. the of the one was on Saturday, that of the other was on Friday afternoon - the disease in both being the same - typhoid fever.". Her body was interred in June 1852 at
Fairfield Co., South Carolina, at New Hope ARP Cemetery.