Biography of Joseph W. Harrell - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 335

Joseph W. Harrell, postmaster at Macey, and a farmer of sterling worth
in Buffalo Township, is a native of Arkansas, born in White County,
February 6, 1846. His father, Jethro Harrell, was a native of South
Carolina, where he was reared and married Mildred Hunt. In 1840 they
came to Arkansas, where Mrs. Harrell died in 1846. After his wife's
death he was unsettled until 1851, when he located in St. Francis
County, where he remained for several years. He afterward came to
Craighead County, and died February 7, 1866. He was an active member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, greatly respected by all who knew him.
His second wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Morrow, survived her
husband several years, dying in Alabama in 1883. By his first wife Mr.
Harrell had five children, Joseph W. being the only one who grew to
manhood; and by his second wife four sons and two daughters, who
reached mature years. Joseph W. Harrell was reared and educated in
Poinsett and Craighead Counties. In the late war he enlisted in the
Confederate service, and participated in several engagements during
Price's raid in Missouri and Kansas, and at last surrendered at
Wittsburg, May 25, 1865. He returned to Poinsett County, and remained
there until his father's death. He was married in this county, February
16, 1873, to Frances E. Hunton, a native of Georgia. She died February
20, 1887. To this union were born seven children: Charles J., Martha
Jane, Mary F., Macy A., Lucy A., William J. and Joseph E. Mr. Harrell
went to Dunklin County, Mo., in 1872, and farmed there for two years,
after which he located in this township, where he has since resided. He
bought timbered land, and has cleared 100 acres, and built a
comfortable home and five tenant houses. He has married Amanda Carson,
a native of Lauderdale County, Tenn., where she was reared. She is a
zealous member of the Methodist [p.335] Church. Mr. Harrell was the
first postmaster at Macey, appointed in 1882. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and takes active interest in the promotion of the
educational interests of his neighborhood.