Julia Derrick Harrell
Kittitas Co., WA

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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007

VALLEY PIONEER DIES ON MONDAY.  MRS. JULIA HARRELL RESIDENT OF VALLEY FOR 16
YEARS DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS.  Mrs. Julia Harrell, 70, wife of T. A.
Harrell, Sr., West Side rancher, passed away at her home Monday afternoon
[August 24, 1925] at 2:30, following a brief illness due to heart failure.
Mrs. Harrell, with her husband and family, came to Ellensburg in 1909 and had
lived on a ranch on the West Side ever since.  She was born April 16, 1855,
at Rogersville, Tenn.  On December 25, 1871, she was married to Thomas A.
Harrell and 11 children were born to them.  Besides her husband, Mrs. Harrell
is survived by Mrs. William Packwood, Mrs. Felix Prater, Mrs. Frank Springer,
Tom  Harrell, Jr., Luther Harrell and Steve Harrell, all of Ellensburg; Mrs.
M. E. Hensley of Churchill, Tenn., and Herbert Harrell of Los Angeles.  She
also leaves three step daughters in Ellensburg, Mrs. William Rutledge, Mrs.
Jessie Kates and Mrs. Russell Morefield, 13 grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Christian Church
in Ellensburg, the Rev. Max Wilson of Thorp, officiating.  Interment took
place in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery.