CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - Civil War  William Harrell

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WILLIAM HARRELL

He was great-great grandfather to Rozine Britt Sheets and
Stephanie Smith.  Stephanie recorded the following story:

A Story About Annie Maude Becham Long's Granddaddy and
the War.

Grannie said:  When my mama was a little girl, her daddy
went off to the war.  He was gone a long time and things
were hard.  One day her mammy saw her daddy coming across
the field.  She hollared, "children your daddy's home.'

As they all ran to meet him, he stopped them a way's off.
He said, "don't come no closer.  Go to the house and
bring me some soap and a rag to wash down at the creek.
Bring me all clean clothes and shoes."  So they did what
he said.  After he was clean, he piled all his old
clothes and boots, in a heap and burned them.  He said
they was full of disease and filth.  Grandpa said he rode
his old mule as far as it would go, then it died rightout
from under him, from there he walked and it was a long
way.  Grandpa died soon after that and is buried at Old
Bethel Cemetery.

This story is about William Harrell, listed as killed in
Vicksburg, Miss.; but he came home to die.  William
Harrell is my Grt. Grt. Grt. Grandaddy.

Note: Annie Maude Becham, was a daughter of William
Seaborn Becham and Mary Elizabeth Harrell-Becham.