seeker;37428 wrote: Is there any possible connection with your Harrells and mine MarcSnelling?
Jesse Harrell b. 1810 KY , wife Mary Ann Ward b. 1816 OH. Jesse moved to Indiana to Decature where his son Phillip E Harrell was born in 1843. Then moved to Marshall Co. IN. My Grandfather, his Grandson, was told he was Irish. Ive had no luck tracing the name. Grandpa said he had a big red beard though. So not likely NA, or full anyway.
Given the places and times I think they probably were.
My Mary Harrell was born 12 Oct 1768 in Nelson Co Kentucky, she died 14 Aug 1852. Her husband was Henry Smith Cotton born 4 Sep 1763 in VA, died Mar 1831 near Bardstown, Nelson Co KY. Their son William W Cotton was born between 1803-05 in Nelson County KY and died 6 Jan 1874 in Nineveh, Johnson, Indiana.
Looking at a tree for Jesse Ray Harrell 1810 and Mary Ann Ward I see Jesse’s father listed as Phillip Harrell b 1788 in VA. Died 2 Aug 1857 Decatur Co IN. On the 1810 census he is in Bardstown Nelson Co KY the same place my Mary Harrell’s husband died 21 years later. In 1812 he is listed as marrying Catherine Redding in Butler Co OH. Several of my lines were in Butler Co OH at this time.
I have not found a tree that lists Phillip Harrell’s parents yet. Mary Harrell is twenty years older than him so could be a generation before or perhaps the same generation? I notice Jesse R Harrell had a sister named Mary A Harrell born 1830.
The population of Bardstown was 216 in 1790 and 536 in 1860. So I don’t think it is a stretch to assume these Harrell’s are connected even though I have yet to see a direct link.