Monroe Lafayette Harrell
Family

1850 - 1898

NAME BORN DIED CEMETERY
Monroe Lafayette Harrell #4601 29 Aug 1850
Hunt County, TX
8 Feb 1898
Hunt County, TX

Married:   c. 1878
Wealthy Alice Thomas #11280
Hunt County, TX
3 Mar 1857
Louisiana
15 Jul 1945
Kent County, Texas
Red Mud
Dickens County, TX
Children:
Ora E. Harrell #4671
1878
Hunt County, TX
1878

Ara A. Harrell (f) #11914 Nov 1879
Hunt County, TX
1900

Cordie Harrell (f) #11915 Aug 1885
Hunt County, TX


Richard Fount Harrell #11275 25 May 1887
Kingston, Hunt, TX
22 May 1964
Spur, Dickens, TX
Mount Olivet
Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX
Mamie Elizabeth Harrell #11916 Dec 1889
Texas

Red Mud
Dickens County, TX
Mattie Pearl Harrell #1113
married:
Willis Annul Smith #1000
23 Jul 1891
Kingston, Hunt, TX
5 Dec 1915
Texas
Red Mud
Dickens County, TX
Ira Mack Harrell #11917 Jun 1897
Texas
1973
Texas
Red Mud
Dickens County, TX

Notes:
Monroe was the son of Richard F. Harrell and Nancy Louise Culver Vancleave. Richard was born 11 May 1813 in Perquimans County, NC and died 19 Jun 1894 in Hunt County, TX. He first married Margie Ann Enoch Sep 1841 in Lamar County, TX. She was born 4 Mar 1826 in Carroll County, TN and died Sep 1844 in Fannin County, TX. They had three children.

Richard's second wife, Nancy Louise was the daughter of Grenade Culver, and was previously married to a Vancleave. Some Vancleave children appear in Harrell census records. Nancy was born 21 Sep 1823 in Rutherford County, TN and died 30 Apr 1888 in Kellog, Hunt, TX. She and Richard had ten known children.

Wealthy Alice Thomas was the daughter of Frederick George Thomas and Mary Ann Cole. Wealthy's unique name apparently came from her maternal Cole grandmother, Wealtha Taylor Cole. It seems obvious from sources that Wealthy preferred to use her initials, and "Mrs. W. A. Harrell" is on her cemetery marker and other records.

Sources:
TX Marriages 1814-1909: N. L. Van Cleave - R. Harell 30 Dec 1847 Lamar Co., TX.
1860 Census TX Hunt Jun 27 (with parents):Monro L 8 TX. (Index has Morris S.)
1860 Census LA Caddo Jun 8 (with parents) Allice Thomas 3 LA.
1870 Census TX Hunt Oct 14 (with parents) Monroe L Harrell 20 TX.
1870 Census LA Caddo Jun 8 (with widowed mother)Alice Thomas 13 LA.
1880 Census TX Hunt Jun 11: Monroe Harrell 29, Alice 23 LA, Ara A 7/12 dau born Nov census year (1879). Also widowed mother Mary Thomas 56 & sister Manerva 19.
1900 Census TX Hunt Jun 18: Mrs W A Harrell 43 Mar 1857 widow, six children.
1910, 1920 not found.
1930 Census TX Garza Apr 21: Ira Harrell 30 single, Mrs W A Harrell 74 widowed mother (age 25 when first married).
1945 Texas Death Index: Wealthy Alice Harrell 15 Jul 1945 Kerr County.
1945 Notice of Removal: Wealthy Alice Harrell removed to Kent County July 1945, burial Kent Co. [Dickens].
1945 Death Certificate: Wealthy Alice Harrell d. 15 Jul 1945 b. 3 Mar 1857 LA, Red Mud Cem, Kent Co. [Dickens], Informant: A. E. McClain.
1945 Red Mud Cem Listing: Mrs. W A Harrell 1857-1945. [Wealthy Alice is buried between daughter Mattie Pearl and son Ira Mack.]

Ora and Ara -- It is probable that these young daughters died in Hunt County, TX.
Richard Fount was probably named for his grandfather, Richard F. and his Uncle Fountain E. Pitts Harrell. Fount married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Perkins about 1916. She was born May 1887 in Alabama, daughter of John Thomas Perkins and Margaret D. "Maggie" Box. The John Perkins family came to Texas about 1895 and was in Jones County in 1900, Dickens County in 1910.

Lizzie's brother, James M. Perkins was the second husband of Alice Ester Smith McKay, older sister of Willis Annul Smith.
Mamie Elizabeth - Not sure about DOD. There is a Mamie Harrell buried in Red Mud Cemetery with no dates.
Ira, 1900 Census b. Jun 1897 -- Red Mud Cemetery Listing: Ira Mack Harrell b. 1898 d. 1973.
The 1930 TX Garza Census has Ira 30, single, renting, with also his widowed mother, Mrs W A Harrell 74 and niece Pansy Smith 15. Pansy was the youngest child of Willis Annul Smith and deceased mother Mattie Pearl Perkins. The NE corner of Garza is part of the Red Mud Community, known earlier as Tap and also Red Top (school).
Pedigree Chart 2
Pleasant Smith
Frederick Thomas
Father
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