Editing Francis Bellamy (section)

==Later life and death==
Bellamy is known to have spent 19 years working in New York City but it is unclear as to when. While living there he would work in the advertising industry. He believed in high pressure advertising and thought that it could also still be truthful at the same time. Advertising was seen by him as a way to create demand for American industrial activities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=DID YOU KNOW? Francis J. Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag in 1892, lived in Tampa from 1922 until his death in 1931.|url=https://tampapix.com/bellamy.htm|access-date=December 11, 2021|website=TAMPAPIX.COM}}</ref>

Bellamy and his second wife, Marie, moved from New York City to Tampa, Florida in 1922 where he spent the remainder of his life. Starting in 1926 he began to work part time for the [[TECO Energy|Tampa Electric Company]] as advertising manager after persuading the company's management that they needed systemic publicity/advertising he could develop. The [[1930 United States census|1930 United States Census]] recorded him residing at 2926 Wallcraft Avenue. He got fired from his job at Tampa Electric Company on July 15, 1931, and applied for and got a similar job at Tampa Gas Company.<ref name=":0" />

Bellamy died in Tampa on August 28, 1931, at the age of 76. His cremated remains were brought back to New York and buried in a family plot in a cemetery in Rome, New York.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mount Morris, New York - History|url=http://www.mountmorrisny.com/history/bellamy.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811074317/http://www.mountmorrisny.com/history/bellamy.htm|archive-date=2012-08-11|access-date=2013-05-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What to do ... Visit Francis Bellamy's Grave|url=http://www.when-in-rome.com/todo/bellamy.php}}</ref>