Entire Family moved to Fairview Cemetery from the Harrell Family Cemetery in Fayette County, TN on October 10, 2010.
Fayette County, TN Genealogy - Goodspeed
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -
Fayette County Biographies
James C. Harrell
Surnames: HARRELL, BARNES, MITCHELL
James C. Harrell was born in Fayette County, Tenn., October 5, 1839, and is the son of William and Temperance (Barnes) Harrell, both natives of Nash County, NC.
The father was born in 1802 and (lied in Fayette County, October 20, 1856. The mother was born in 1814 and died in the same county October, 1878. They were both of Irish descent and in early life moved to Fayette County.
Our subject was educated at La Grange College, Tennessee, and Broaddus College, Mississippi; then commenced farming which he has continued ever since, except during his
service in the Confederate Army. In 1867 he established a store at Rossville, but moved, the business to Elba in 1870 and still lives at the old homestead and cultivates the old plantation.
March 17, 1859, he married Miss Fannie Mitchell, born April 20, 1843, and they have had eleven children, ten of them living.
Mr. Harrell has always been a Democrat, and for several terms has held the office of magistrate. In 1884 he was elected to the Legislature, and was placed on the
committees of public schools, railroads, penitentiary, agriculture and public roads. He was a thorough business member and was never absent from his desk. Mr. Harrell is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Honor and a member of the A. 0. U. W.
He was originally a Baptist, but since 1874 he has been a member of the Christian Church.
In 1862 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Company C in Ballentine's regiment, and served with it in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, participating under Van Dorn in the battles of Holly Springs, Jackson, Murfreesboro and the Georgia campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, and with Hood, from the evacuation at Lovejoy through the battles at Franklin and Nashville and was surrendered at Selma, Ala., under Gen. Frank Armstrong in
April, 1865.
Mr. Harrell is a quiet, pleasant gentleman of marked force of character, exerting a wide influence in his county and esteemed by all.
[Index to Goodspeed Biographies - Fayette County]
Copyright ©2000 Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray. All Rights Reserved.
Fayette County, TN Genealogy - Goodspeed
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -
Fayette County Biographies
James C. Harrell
Surnames: HARRELL, BARNES, MITCHELL
James C. Harrell was born in Fayette County, Tenn., October 5, 1839, and is the son of William and Temperance (Barnes) Harrell, both natives of Nash County, NC.
The father was born in 1802 and (lied in Fayette County, October 20, 1856. The mother was born in 1814 and died in the same county October, 1878. They were both of Irish descent and in early life moved to Fayette County.
Our subject was educated at La Grange College, Tennessee, and Broaddus College, Mississippi; then commenced farming which he has continued ever since, except during his
service in the Confederate Army. In 1867 he established a store at Rossville, but moved, the business to Elba in 1870 and still lives at the old homestead and cultivates the old plantation.
March 17, 1859, he married Miss Fannie Mitchell, born April 20, 1843, and they have had eleven children, ten of them living.
Mr. Harrell has always been a Democrat, and for several terms has held the office of magistrate. In 1884 he was elected to the Legislature, and was placed on the
committees of public schools, railroads, penitentiary, agriculture and public roads. He was a thorough business member and was never absent from his desk. Mr. Harrell is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Honor and a member of the A. 0. U. W.
He was originally a Baptist, but since 1874 he has been a member of the Christian Church.
In 1862 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Company C in Ballentine's regiment, and served with it in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, participating under Van Dorn in the battles of Holly Springs, Jackson, Murfreesboro and the Georgia campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, and with Hood, from the evacuation at Lovejoy through the battles at Franklin and Nashville and was surrendered at Selma, Ala., under Gen. Frank Armstrong in
April, 1865.
Mr. Harrell is a quiet, pleasant gentleman of marked force of character, exerting a wide influence in his county and esteemed by all.
[Index to Goodspeed Biographies - Fayette County]
Copyright ©2000 Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray. All Rights Reserved.
Entire Family moved to Fairview Cemetery from the Harrell Family Cemetery in Fayette County, TN on October 10, 2010.
Fayette County, TN Genealogy - Goodspeed
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -
Fayette County Biographies
James C. Harrell
Surnames: HARRELL, BARNES, MITCHELL
James C. Harrell was born in Fayette County, Tenn., October 5, 1839, and is the son of William and Temperance (Barnes) Harrell, both natives of Nash County, NC.
The father was born in 1802 and (lied in Fayette County, October 20, 1856. The mother was born in 1814 and died in the same county October, 1878. They were both of Irish descent and in early life moved to Fayette County.
Our subject was educated at La Grange College, Tennessee, and Broaddus College, Mississippi; then commenced farming which he has continued ever since, except during his
service in the Confederate Army. In 1867 he established a store at Rossville, but moved, the business to Elba in 1870 and still lives at the old homestead and cultivates the old plantation.
March 17, 1859, he married Miss Fannie Mitchell, born April 20, 1843, and they have had eleven children, ten of them living.
Mr. Harrell has always been a Democrat, and for several terms has held the office of magistrate. In 1884 he was elected to the Legislature, and was placed on the
committees of public schools, railroads, penitentiary, agriculture and public roads. He was a thorough business member and was never absent from his desk. Mr. Harrell is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Honor and a member of the A. 0. U. W.
He was originally a Baptist, but since 1874 he has been a member of the Christian Church.
In 1862 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Company C in Ballentine's regiment, and served with it in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, participating under Van Dorn in the battles of Holly Springs, Jackson, Murfreesboro and the Georgia campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, and with Hood, from the evacuation at Lovejoy through the battles at Franklin and Nashville and was surrendered at Selma, Ala., under Gen. Frank Armstrong in
April, 1865.
Mr. Harrell is a quiet, pleasant gentleman of marked force of character, exerting a wide influence in his county and esteemed by all.
[Index to Goodspeed Biographies - Fayette County]
Copyright ©2000 Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray. All Rights Reserved.
Fayette County, TN Genealogy - Goodspeed
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -
Fayette County Biographies
James C. Harrell
Surnames: HARRELL, BARNES, MITCHELL
James C. Harrell was born in Fayette County, Tenn., October 5, 1839, and is the son of William and Temperance (Barnes) Harrell, both natives of Nash County, NC.
The father was born in 1802 and (lied in Fayette County, October 20, 1856. The mother was born in 1814 and died in the same county October, 1878. They were both of Irish descent and in early life moved to Fayette County.
Our subject was educated at La Grange College, Tennessee, and Broaddus College, Mississippi; then commenced farming which he has continued ever since, except during his
service in the Confederate Army. In 1867 he established a store at Rossville, but moved, the business to Elba in 1870 and still lives at the old homestead and cultivates the old plantation.
March 17, 1859, he married Miss Fannie Mitchell, born April 20, 1843, and they have had eleven children, ten of them living.
Mr. Harrell has always been a Democrat, and for several terms has held the office of magistrate. In 1884 he was elected to the Legislature, and was placed on the
committees of public schools, railroads, penitentiary, agriculture and public roads. He was a thorough business member and was never absent from his desk. Mr. Harrell is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Honor and a member of the A. 0. U. W.
He was originally a Baptist, but since 1874 he has been a member of the Christian Church.
In 1862 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Company C in Ballentine's regiment, and served with it in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, participating under Van Dorn in the battles of Holly Springs, Jackson, Murfreesboro and the Georgia campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, and with Hood, from the evacuation at Lovejoy through the battles at Franklin and Nashville and was surrendered at Selma, Ala., under Gen. Frank Armstrong in
April, 1865.
Mr. Harrell is a quiet, pleasant gentleman of marked force of character, exerting a wide influence in his county and esteemed by all.
[Index to Goodspeed Biographies - Fayette County]
Copyright ©2000 Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray. All Rights Reserved.
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