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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Harrell Family.

  There are several large families in this county, but the largest is perhaps
the Harrell family. There are four sets of this family, occasioned by the fact
that four brothers came to this section from North Carolina and settled in what
was then Wilkinson County.

  These four brothers were Asa, Levi, Frances and William. They were the sons of
Levi Harrell, a Revolutionary soldier of North Carolina. Old man Levi, their
father, married a Mrs. Cole, who was the mother of the above mentioned brothers.
Levi married, second, a Miss White, and they were the parents of three sons who
came to Georgia with their half brothers. They were Jacob, Etheired and Samuel,
and went to southwest Georgia, settling around Quitman.

  In 1806 Asa and young Levi bought the land and settled on what is now the
Candler farm, which is located about three miles above Eastman on the Cochran
road. The other two brothers settled on the other side of what is now Eastman.

  Asa, pioneer, married Elizabeth Keen, and they were the parents of: John A.,
who married Jeanet Hendley, and Willis, who married Sophia Hendley, both of whom
were daughters of Horton - Hendley and his wife Polly Ann Daniel; Ben; Asa, Jr.;
Katie, who married Cordial Parkerson; Morning, who married Elbert Peacock, Sr.;
Polly, who married Dave Clements; Charlotta, who married, first, Martin Cadwell,
and second, John McCranie, Sr.; Lucinda, who married H. H. Evans; Sukie, who
married Billie Holt; Penny, who married a Clements; Nancy, who married a Clements.

  John A., son of Asa, was a Captain in the Confederate army. He married Jeanet
Hendley, daughter of Horton Hendley and his wife Polly Ann Daniel. They were the
parents of: J. Dan, who was a soldier in the Confederate army; W. J.; John J.;
Horton; Mary, who married Andy Cadwell; Morgan; Nan, who married a Burt.

  Willis, son of Asa, pioneer, was a First Lieutenant in the Confederate army.
He married Sophia Hendley, daughter of Horton Hendley and his wife Polly Ann
Daniel. Their children were: John James, who married, first, Farrabee Hamilton,
and second, Melissa Stewart Jump; W. P., who married Viola Studstill; Aillie
Ann, who married R. F. Burch, Sr.; Mary Jane, who married a Burt. Mary Jane's
children were: Edna, who married Archie Har-rell, a son of Charles, who was a
grandson of Levi, the pioneer; Willie Mae, who married John Stewart.

  Ben, son of Asa, pioneer, married Belitha Hogan, and they were the parents of:
Reuben A.; Ben; Lemuel; Wright; Billie, who died in the Confederate army; Asa,
who married Eliza Burch, sister of M. L. Burch; Willis, who married Amelia
Burch, also a sister of M. L. Burch; Caroline, who married Jim Delk; Lovett, who
settled in Coffee County.

  Asa, Jr., son of Asa, the pioneer, married Mary McEachin, and they were the
parents of: A. P., who married, first, Mary Rozar, and were the parents of Jim
and W. Rozar Harrell; and second, Miss Lou Bond. Ben, son of Asa, Jr., married
Nettie Burch, daughter of M. L. Burch; Mollie, daughter of Asa, Jr., married a
Brown; Jennie, another daughter of Asa, Jr., was the first wife of H. J. Sapp.

  Reuben A., first Clerk of the Court of Dodge County, was the son of Ben, who
was the son of Asa, the pioneer. Reuben A. married Nannie McEachin, and they
were the parents of: Lawton A.; Ella, who married Lewis F. Woolen; Loveda, who
married, first, A. B. Young, and second, J. H. Smith.

  Lemuel, son of Ben, who was a son of Asa, the pioneer, married Lizzie Noles,
and they were the parents of: Ben W.; Will; John A., who was Clerk of the Court
of Dodge County for eight years; J. I.; Lem; Roger; Manning; Irene.

  J. Dan, son of Captain John A., who was a son of Asa, the pioneer, married,
first, Winnie Noles, and they were parents of: Levi. His second wife was Nancy
Margaret Studstill, and they were the parents of: Georgia, who married Will
Paul; Gussie; Mittie; Hattie, who married Col. J. H. Milner.

  W. J., son of John A., who was a son of-Asa, the pioneer, married Elizabeth
Johnson, and they were the parents of: Verna, who married J. H. McDonald; Edna;
Wilbur, who married Eva Bell Tatum; Juliette, who married Lionel Phelps.


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HISTORY
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DODGE COUNTY

COPYRIGHT    1932
By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB

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