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The 1820 census of Franklin Co. gave a Chester Harrell, males: 10-16 2; 16-18 1; 18-26 1; 45+ 1. Females <10 1; 16-26 1; 45+ 1. He was a farmer.

Hazel R. Gennett wrote that he settled in Kentucky. There is a "Chester Heroild" on the Nelson Co., KY tax rolls in 1792, but with no land; also a "Chester Herrell" listed 7/7/1800. According to Christine Harrell Peters, he is also on the tax rolls for 1785, 1787, 1790, and 1791. She wrote: "...Isaac, James, William, Chester, Robert, Moses, and Moses, Jr. It seems that some of these men owned land on Bear Creek of the Beechfork in the Bardstown, KY., area in what is now Washington Co., KY.

In Nelson County, Chester gave surety for the marriage of Leah McCarty, daughter of Isaac McCarty, to Solomon Stephens, 15 June 1795, and for the marriage of Mary Suttles and William Allen 5 Sept. 1797; for administrators bond of Selia McCarty for the estate of Isaac McCarty, dec'd, £200 October 13, 1795 and for Mary Yeazel for the estate of David Yeazel, £500, July 9, 1799. He was recommended to the Governor to be appointed ensign in the 1st Battalion of the Nelson Co. Militia 11 May 1791.

A Chester Harrell was listed 7 Aug 1805 as residing in Montgomery Co., OH, and settling on sec. 3 T5 R33, Miami River grant and of Butler Co., OH settling on sec. 1 T9 R35 in Indiana, probably Franklin Co.

A Chester Harrell was mentioned in the Biographical and Genealogical History of Franklin Co. as a "pioneer farmer of Franklin County." He settled in 1811 on "Sec. 35;" the rest was not xeroxed.

Lyndon Irwin http://www.lyndonirwin.com/harrell.htm: Chester Harrell was a pioneer of Franklin County...He was born August 16, 1756, in Virginia. He and his family lived in Nelson County, Kentucky, for several years. Chester's first wife was an Everett. They had four childrem. Following the death of his forst wife, Chester Harrell married Betsy Stephens in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. They were parents of nine children. They lived in Nelson County for a few years, then moved to Butler Co., Ohio, and finally came to what became Franklin County, Indiana, arriving there before Indiana was a state. Death and burial information for Chester and Betsy have not been found. I have wondered if they were buried at Stevens Cemetary in Fayette County where Isaac is buried, but I have visited this old pioneer cemetary and no stone is found for them.

From Hosts of Harrels 2, Jul 1993: "The family Herrell/Harrell/Harold/Herald found in Claiborne County, Tennessee originated in the Alsace area of eastern France on the German border. The original spelling of the name was HEARL. The earliest members of the family came to the United States with German settlers during the early 1700's and settled in Pennsylvania. They were members of the Lutheran, Reformed, or United Brethren churches. About 1732 Jost Hite and Bautiste led approximately fifty families seeking better farm land to the Virginia valley. The Herrell family was among this group."

He married, first, an unknown woman. Children:

i. Isaac Harrell. Born, 1781. Died November 1848, Fayette Co., IN. He married Delilah Doom, daughter of Jacob and Abigail Doom, Washington Co., KY August 17, 1803. She was born ca 1786 and died 1869.

90 ii. Elizabeth[7] Harrell.

iii. James Harrell

iv. Elijah Harrell

He married, second, Betsy Stevens, 1 Jun 1789, in Nelson, KY. Children: Betsy was the daughter of Mary Cases, who gave consent. Surety was by Jacob Yoder.

v. Edith Harrell. She married August 4, 1812 James McKinney.

vi. William Harrell. Died before December 1835. He married February 2, 1823 Elizabeth Miles.

vii. Hannah Harrell, born ca 1794. Died aft 1877. She married John Smiley November 2, 1813.

viii. Stephen S. Harrell. Born, circa 1799, in Franklin Co., IN. Burial: 1850, in Franklin Co., IN. He married Ruth Schooley.

ix. Margaret Harrell, born ca 1800. She married 9 Dec 1819 Isaac Brown.

x. Susan Harrell, born ca 1803. She married 23 May 1833 John Turner.

xi. Elisha Harrell, born 18 Nov 1807. Died 22 May 1882. He married 26 Aug 1830 Abigail Buckley. He married 2nd Margaret C. Smith.

xii. Edmund Harrell , born 29 June 1809. Died 23 Aug 1857. He married 7 May 1831 Rebecca Alyea. He married 2nd Sabra Ann Williams.

xiii. Jane Harrell, born 2 July 1811. Died 29 Nov 1886. She married 10 Oct 1829 Anson Buckley. She married 2nd Abraham Miller.