Luther William Harrell
DEAL, FEELY, FREDERICKSON, HARRELL, HOLMES, SCHOENENBERGER, SCOTT, SELLERS, WOOD
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Date: 8/9/2004 at 10:55:36
“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915L. W. Harrell, deceased, was long and actively identified and forty acres of valuable land on sections 17 and 18, Scott township. He was born in Jackson county, Indiana, on the 12th of March, 1832 a son of William and Mary (Peck) Harrell, and was reared on a farm, attending the district and local high schools. In young manhood he purchased land. In 1861 he was married and five years later came to Madison county, Iowa, buying a tract of eighty acres in Lincoln township. Subsequently he took up his abode in Scott township and there bought eighty acres of improved land, later extending the boundaries of his farm by additional purchase until at the time of his death it embraced two hundred and forty acres. Success attended his well directed labors and when he passed away, May 10, 1911, the community mourned the loss of one of its substantial agriculturists and highly respected citizens. The property has since been under the able management of his widow and his son Cleveland.
In Indiana, in 1861, Mr. Harrell was joined in wedlock to Miss Martha Scott, who was born in Jackson county, that state, on the 26th of February, 1843, a daughter of William and Mary (Wood) Scott. To Mr. and Mrs. Harrell were born nine children, as follows: one who died in infancy; W. C., who wedded Achsa Feely, of Nebraska and has one child, Myrtle; Laura B., the wife of E. G. Holmes, of New Mexico, by whom she had four children—Harry (deceased), Ethel, Floyd and Velma; Maggie, who gave her hand in marriage to Ed Schoenenberger, of Walnut township; Mary Hettie, the wife of J. B. Deal, of Newton, Kansas, by whom she has two children, Louis and Hazel; Ida, who is the wife of W. A. Sellers, of Scott township, this county; Frank, who wedded Miss Ella Fredericksen, of Scott township; Johnnie, who passed away at the age of sixteen years; and Cleveland, who operates the home farm.
Mr. Harrell gave his political allegiance to the democracy, while his religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Christian Union church, to which his widow also belongs. The latter, a splendidly preserved and still active lady, has now resided in this county for almost a half century and enjoys an extensive and favorable acquaintance within its borders.
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