Over the Misty Blue Hills by Ruth Webb O'Dell, pg 125 & 126
The Morell Family
The advent of the Morell family in Cocke County is one of adventure, interest and intrigue and dates back to the year 1769, when a French youth became so ibued with a burning desire to seek his fortune in the new world, that he availed himself of the very first opportunity to do so, by making the opportunity himself. He learned that on a certain day, at a certain port, a vessel would "set sail" for America.
He secreted himself in this West-bound boat and in due time landed on the shores of Virginia, where this adventuresome youth was punished for his "folly" by being "bound out" to a large landowner, that he might work out sufficient money to pay for his voyage. There was nothing else left for him to do but comply with the demand of the Captain of the ship, or so he thought, at the time.
However, he soon discovered, to his delight, that the great landowner had a lovely daughter, and being French with a love and appreciation of the beautiful, he quite promptly fell in love with her and quickly decided that he was willing to not only be bound out to her father but to find himself to her, "until death did them part."
Time flies rapidly when a man is in love, and before he scarcely realized it, his passage money had been "worked out" and he was a free man, to take unto himself a wife and establish a home of his own in the new country. He married the planter's daughter and they lived happily ever afterwards, became the parents of three stalwart sons.
One of the sons, CHARLES M. MORELL inherited his father's love of adventure, which carried him from his Virginia home to the "far West," beyong the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He liked the Wilderness country beyong his beloved Mountains and decided to make him home among our Eternal Tennessee hills, and chose a most desirable location one mile South of our present Newport, at what is now known as THE MORELL SPRINGS.
Here, with his lovely wife, ELIZA COEN MORELL, a new home was established. A flour and grist mill was constructed and later a cotton gin and carding machine. These were the first, and therefore the only such industries in this part of our country, which of necessity drew a lucrative custom and rapidly enriched the owner.
To Charles M. and Eliza Coen Morell was born a son, Joseph Coen Morell, who lived his entire life on the good farm he inherited from his French father. The son took over the industries established by his parents and continued them for many years. When bolted flour became generally used he discontinued the flour mill.
The carding machine was sold to the Newport Mill Company where it was operated for a number of years.
Joseph C. Morrell married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen (& Mary Polly Weaver) and reared our present Morell family. Lou, for many years was one of the county's leading teachers. Norma Morely Satterfield and Bertie Morell Huff all descendants of Chas M. Morell, Jr.
The original farm on which Charles Morell settled is still in the family and will always be, Home, Sweet Home" to this family.
It is a wonderful thing for land to be handed down from father to son. Pot-rocks on the hill S.E. of the Spring indicate this once was the home of Indians.
Charles M. Morell is now president of the City Milling Company, located on West Church Street, Newport, Tennessee (1940) where he is carrying out the traditions of his pioneering ancestors.
The Morell Family
The advent of the Morell family in Cocke County is one of adventure, interest and intrigue and dates back to the year 1769, when a French youth became so ibued with a burning desire to seek his fortune in the new world, that he availed himself of the very first opportunity to do so, by making the opportunity himself. He learned that on a certain day, at a certain port, a vessel would "set sail" for America.
He secreted himself in this West-bound boat and in due time landed on the shores of Virginia, where this adventuresome youth was punished for his "folly" by being "bound out" to a large landowner, that he might work out sufficient money to pay for his voyage. There was nothing else left for him to do but comply with the demand of the Captain of the ship, or so he thought, at the time.
However, he soon discovered, to his delight, that the great landowner had a lovely daughter, and being French with a love and appreciation of the beautiful, he quite promptly fell in love with her and quickly decided that he was willing to not only be bound out to her father but to find himself to her, "until death did them part."
Time flies rapidly when a man is in love, and before he scarcely realized it, his passage money had been "worked out" and he was a free man, to take unto himself a wife and establish a home of his own in the new country. He married the planter's daughter and they lived happily ever afterwards, became the parents of three stalwart sons.
One of the sons, CHARLES M. MORELL inherited his father's love of adventure, which carried him from his Virginia home to the "far West," beyong the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He liked the Wilderness country beyong his beloved Mountains and decided to make him home among our Eternal Tennessee hills, and chose a most desirable location one mile South of our present Newport, at what is now known as THE MORELL SPRINGS.
Here, with his lovely wife, ELIZA COEN MORELL, a new home was established. A flour and grist mill was constructed and later a cotton gin and carding machine. These were the first, and therefore the only such industries in this part of our country, which of necessity drew a lucrative custom and rapidly enriched the owner.
To Charles M. and Eliza Coen Morell was born a son, Joseph Coen Morell, who lived his entire life on the good farm he inherited from his French father. The son took over the industries established by his parents and continued them for many years. When bolted flour became generally used he discontinued the flour mill.
The carding machine was sold to the Newport Mill Company where it was operated for a number of years.
Joseph C. Morrell married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen (& Mary Polly Weaver) and reared our present Morell family. Lou, for many years was one of the county's leading teachers. Norma Morely Satterfield and Bertie Morell Huff all descendants of Chas M. Morell, Jr.
The original farm on which Charles Morell settled is still in the family and will always be, Home, Sweet Home" to this family.
It is a wonderful thing for land to be handed down from father to son. Pot-rocks on the hill S.E. of the Spring indicate this once was the home of Indians.
Charles M. Morell is now president of the City Milling Company, located on West Church Street, Newport, Tennessee (1940) where he is carrying out the traditions of his pioneering ancestors.
Over the Misty Blue Hills by Ruth Webb O'Dell, pg 125 & 126
The Morell Family
The advent of the Morell family in Cocke County is one of adventure, interest and intrigue and dates back to the year 1769, when a French youth became so ibued with a burning desire to seek his fortune in the new world, that he availed himself of the very first opportunity to do so, by making the opportunity himself. He learned that on a certain day, at a certain port, a vessel would "set sail" for America.
He secreted himself in this West-bound boat and in due time landed on the shores of Virginia, where this adventuresome youth was punished for his "folly" by being "bound out" to a large landowner, that he might work out sufficient money to pay for his voyage. There was nothing else left for him to do but comply with the demand of the Captain of the ship, or so he thought, at the time.
However, he soon discovered, to his delight, that the great landowner had a lovely daughter, and being French with a love and appreciation of the beautiful, he quite promptly fell in love with her and quickly decided that he was willing to not only be bound out to her father but to find himself to her, "until death did them part."
Time flies rapidly when a man is in love, and before he scarcely realized it, his passage money had been "worked out" and he was a free man, to take unto himself a wife and establish a home of his own in the new country. He married the planter's daughter and they lived happily ever afterwards, became the parents of three stalwart sons.
One of the sons, CHARLES M. MORELL inherited his father's love of adventure, which carried him from his Virginia home to the "far West," beyong the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He liked the Wilderness country beyong his beloved Mountains and decided to make him home among our Eternal Tennessee hills, and chose a most desirable location one mile South of our present Newport, at what is now known as THE MORELL SPRINGS.
Here, with his lovely wife, ELIZA COEN MORELL, a new home was established. A flour and grist mill was constructed and later a cotton gin and carding machine. These were the first, and therefore the only such industries in this part of our country, which of necessity drew a lucrative custom and rapidly enriched the owner.
To Charles M. and Eliza Coen Morell was born a son, Joseph Coen Morell, who lived his entire life on the good farm he inherited from his French father. The son took over the industries established by his parents and continued them for many years. When bolted flour became generally used he discontinued the flour mill.
The carding machine was sold to the Newport Mill Company where it was operated for a number of years.
Joseph C. Morrell married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen (& Mary Polly Weaver) and reared our present Morell family. Lou, for many years was one of the county's leading teachers. Norma Morely Satterfield and Bertie Morell Huff all descendants of Chas M. Morell, Jr.
The original farm on which Charles Morell settled is still in the family and will always be, Home, Sweet Home" to this family.
It is a wonderful thing for land to be handed down from father to son. Pot-rocks on the hill S.E. of the Spring indicate this once was the home of Indians.
Charles M. Morell is now president of the City Milling Company, located on West Church Street, Newport, Tennessee (1940) where he is carrying out the traditions of his pioneering ancestors.
The Morell Family
The advent of the Morell family in Cocke County is one of adventure, interest and intrigue and dates back to the year 1769, when a French youth became so ibued with a burning desire to seek his fortune in the new world, that he availed himself of the very first opportunity to do so, by making the opportunity himself. He learned that on a certain day, at a certain port, a vessel would "set sail" for America.
He secreted himself in this West-bound boat and in due time landed on the shores of Virginia, where this adventuresome youth was punished for his "folly" by being "bound out" to a large landowner, that he might work out sufficient money to pay for his voyage. There was nothing else left for him to do but comply with the demand of the Captain of the ship, or so he thought, at the time.
However, he soon discovered, to his delight, that the great landowner had a lovely daughter, and being French with a love and appreciation of the beautiful, he quite promptly fell in love with her and quickly decided that he was willing to not only be bound out to her father but to find himself to her, "until death did them part."
Time flies rapidly when a man is in love, and before he scarcely realized it, his passage money had been "worked out" and he was a free man, to take unto himself a wife and establish a home of his own in the new country. He married the planter's daughter and they lived happily ever afterwards, became the parents of three stalwart sons.
One of the sons, CHARLES M. MORELL inherited his father's love of adventure, which carried him from his Virginia home to the "far West," beyong the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He liked the Wilderness country beyong his beloved Mountains and decided to make him home among our Eternal Tennessee hills, and chose a most desirable location one mile South of our present Newport, at what is now known as THE MORELL SPRINGS.
Here, with his lovely wife, ELIZA COEN MORELL, a new home was established. A flour and grist mill was constructed and later a cotton gin and carding machine. These were the first, and therefore the only such industries in this part of our country, which of necessity drew a lucrative custom and rapidly enriched the owner.
To Charles M. and Eliza Coen Morell was born a son, Joseph Coen Morell, who lived his entire life on the good farm he inherited from his French father. The son took over the industries established by his parents and continued them for many years. When bolted flour became generally used he discontinued the flour mill.
The carding machine was sold to the Newport Mill Company where it was operated for a number of years.
Joseph C. Morrell married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen (& Mary Polly Weaver) and reared our present Morell family. Lou, for many years was one of the county's leading teachers. Norma Morely Satterfield and Bertie Morell Huff all descendants of Chas M. Morell, Jr.
The original farm on which Charles Morell settled is still in the family and will always be, Home, Sweet Home" to this family.
It is a wonderful thing for land to be handed down from father to son. Pot-rocks on the hill S.E. of the Spring indicate this once was the home of Indians.
Charles M. Morell is now president of the City Milling Company, located on West Church Street, Newport, Tennessee (1940) where he is carrying out the traditions of his pioneering ancestors.
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