Union County, SD Biographies.....Rozell, Carver January 28, 1830 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

CARVER ROZELL, one of* the industrious, thrifty and enterprising agriculturists of
Union county, living on section 13, Civil Bend township, was born January 28, 1830,
and is a son of Barzilla and Margaret (Stanford) Rozell, the former a native of
Pennsylvania and the latter born in Ohio. After their marriage they settled in Henry
county, Ind., where the subject of this biography was born and where Mr. Rozell
died; later Mrs. Rozell removed to Hancock county, Ind., and from there, after the
Civil war was over, to Dallas county, Iowa, where she also died.

Carver was raised to manhood in his native county in Indiana, living on a farm until
he was about fifteen years of age. His education consisted of what knowledge he
acquired in the common schools of the district, which was sufficient for practical
use. He spent fifteen years working in a sawmill in Indiana, and in 1857 came west
to Polk county, Iowa. There he lived, and was married in 1860 to Mary J. Bell, a
native of St. Louis, Mo., and daughter of Samuel Bell, of that city. After the
wedding he rented a farm in Iowa which he conducted for six years, and then came to
Union county, Dak. Ter., settling four miles south of his present location. This was
in 1866, and the property he now owns he purchased a year later and has resided
there ever since. The farm was improved with a log house and sixteen acres had been
plowed. Mr. Rozell applied himself industriously to improving his future home, and
now has 160 acres, ninety of which are under cultivation. He devotes his time to
general farming, and, although he started here with comparatively nothing, by
frugality and diligent application to his business has seen his property improve and
has prospered accordingly. Mr. Rozell has been a member of the school board and
politically affiliates with the Populist party, having formerly been a Republican.

Mr. and Mrs. Rozell are the parents of seven children, four of whom are living,
viz.: Barzilla, Addie Remington, Ernest and Vernon. The deceased are Newton, Elmer
and Bertha. Mrs. Rozell is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a zealous
worker in the cause of Christianity.

Mrs. Rozell's father, Samuel Bell, was a native of Pittsburg, Pa., and emigrated to
Kentucky when a young man, locating at Lexington. There he married Miss Sarah
Curtis, a native of that city, and to them four children were born. The family
afterward located in St. Louis, where Mr. Bell followed his trade, that of
blacksmith. His demise occurred several years ago in New Mexico. Mrs. Bell died in
Iowa, her home having been in Polk county, of that state, for several years.


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