He ran again on a platform of reducing taxation, but finished fourth of five candidates in the election. He did not return to political life thereafter. He married Lorinda Jane Davis, of Durham County, on January 1, 1875. The pair had three daughters and one son; Ralph Victor, Edith Elmira, Winnifred and Annie Evelyn. Alice Winnifred died while the Bellamys were living in Winnipeg, aged five years. Their son, Ralph Victor Bellamy was a Rhodes Scholar, the first ever in Alberta; he would also go on to become a school board trustee and city councillor in Edmonton himself. His wife, known as Lora, was active in the First Baptist Church, forming the first women's missionary society, the Edmonton YWCA, and Women's Christian Temperance Union. Bellamy was a Mason, and served as lodge treasurer for twenty years. He had a reputation as an excellent ritualist. According to legend, this was because his business required him to travel extensively by horse and buggy. Bellamy would recite the rituals aloud on such journeys, and his horse eventually became so familiar with them that if Bellamy erred in reciting them, it would stop and refuse to proceed until he got it right. He was also active in the Edmonton Board of Trade, and the Edmonton Exhibition Association, serving on the latter's board of directors. Bellamy was also involved in the city's sporting scene, serving on a track committee playing on a curling team. Him and his wife would also be among the first Baptists in the Edmonton area; upon their arrival in Edmonton they organized the first meeting of other people in the city of that same religion. Bellamy died of after recent years of declining health, at his Edmonton home on October 11, 1926. He was 73 years old. He was survived by his wife, whom he had celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary with one year prior, as well as their three children. After his funeral, which was overseen by the First Baptist Church and Masonic Order, he was buried at a family plot Edmonton Cemetery. Lora Bellamy died in 1937 and was buried next to him. A 1912 publication, "History of the province of Alberta", praised his business career and, describing him as "a man of distinct and forceful individuality, [and] of broad mentality and mature judgement". In 1906, he was described as "unwaveringly faithful to the trust committed to him, and during his tenure of the office he so acceptably fills, has given city affairs his most careful and serviceable attention."