MRS. ANN GORRELL

GORRELL

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/4/2009 at 11:24:46

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

MRS. ANN GORRELL (widow); born in Belmont Co., Ohio, in 1812; located in this county in 1858. Her husband, Oliver Gorrell, to whom she was married in 1854, died in the army of disease contracted in the service of the United States. He enlisted in the 37th I.V.I., Co. G, in 1861, and died in 1864, leaving six children (one of whom was subsequently killed in the army during the war) and his widow, the subject of this biography. Mary, a daughter of her late husband by a former marriage, resides with her; Mrs. Gorrell has a small pension of $8 per month - small recompense for the life of her husband; she owns her little home, valued at $1,000 and has a small income besides her pension.