Moses Harrell

Moses Herrell was the son of Jeremiah (1756-1834) and Sarah Osborne (1765-1838), and they became early Indiana pioneers when they settled near Brooksville in Franklin County (now Fayette County) about 1810 with eight of their children before Indiana reached statehood. With talk of another war and the promise of new land free from Indian raids, they moved from Dungannon, near the old Osborne Ford on the Clinch River in Russell County (now Scott County) Virginia, where all their children were born: William, Stephen, Jane, Jemima, Sarah, Moses, Jeremiah and Comfort.

Jeremiah served in the Continental Lines and Militia of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War and shortly after removed to Virginia where he and Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Comfort Langrum Osborne, married December 17, 1781. In the early 1820's he entered land in Rush County and finally settled in White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana, where Sarah died and was laid to rest in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Their son, Jeremiah (1802-1879) was the first of the Herrell’s to enter land in Howard county, when in the 1840's his family settled in Section 33 of Ervin Township near Wildcat Road, three miles east of Stonebraker’s Mill While living in Rush County with his parents, Moses (1800-1862) married Margaret Murray Street (1816-1876), daughter of James Murray and Margaret Helmich Street on May 22, 1831.

In 1831, he was an original land owner in Johnson County where 11 of their children were born:

Sarah (1832-1917) who married Hugh E. Surface on January 20, 1850 in Johnson County;

Jeremiah (1835-1901) who married Pheobe Jane Roland (1837-1870) on October 19, 1854 in Grant County;

Margaret (1837-1915) married Daniel Dorrell (1832-1912) on August 23, 1854 in Johnson County;

James Murray (1840-1925) married Tabitha Ann Davis (1845-1924) on October 19, 1862;

Eliza Jane (1843-1916) married George Clinton Early (1838-1909) on March 28, 1861 in Howard County;

William Madison (1844-1934) married Mary Catherine Hoover (1840-1910) on August 3, 1865 in Peru, Indiana;

Comfort Emaline (1847-1893) married Samuel Harvey Davis (1844-?) on October 13, 1864 in Howard County;

Mary Jemima (1849-1923) married Samuel Doty (1845-1912) on October 4, 1866 in Howard County;

Clara Josephine (1852-1916) married Lewis Cass Cooper on December 25, 1870 in Howard County;

John Fullen (1855-1873) and Shelby Moses (1858-1923) married LuEmma Sharp (1863-1913) on September 22, 1877 in Grant County.

In the 1850's Moses followed his younger brother Jeremiah to Howard County. With the promise of new land and his father’s itch to move to new frontiers, he entered land in Section one of Monroe Township. Moses and Margaret Herrell were both laid to rest in Ball Hill Cemetery in Carroll County, Indiana.\

Ray Duncan Harrell, author of this article and great grandson of Moses was born October 1, 1931, in Kearney, Nebraska, son of Arthur Garland and Margaret Evelyn Weinle Harrell. Ray entered the USAF in 1951 and spent a year in Seoul during the Korean War. He earned his engineering degree at the University of Wichita in 1958. On June 3, 1955, he married Delores Faye McKay, daughter of Irving Leon and Verna Athens McKay in Wichita, Kansas. They had three daughters: Linda, Tracy and Susan. Ray retired form Martin Marietta Aerospace in 1991 and then lived in Littleton, Colorado.

Information from Ray Duncan Harrell, Page 9 of the Howard County, Indiana, history.

SOURCE: Find A Grave.com

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