Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Barren County.

JAMES MURRELL, son of James, Sr., and Harriet F. (Moss) Murrell, was
born August 5, 1838, in Barren County, Ky.  James Murrill [sic], Sr.,
was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Albemarle County, Va., in
1799.  His wife was of English descent, born in Green County, Ky., in
1812.  They had a family of four children.  When but a child, in 1809
James, Sr., was brought by his parents from Virginia to Kentucky, where
his father, Colonel Samuel Murrell, located a large military land grant
at the falls of the Ohio, near the mouth of Bear Grass Creek, on which a
part of Louisville now stands.  This land Col. Murrell afterward
abandoned, owing to ill health and Indian depredations, and moved to
Barren County, where he settled on other land three miles and a half
south of Glasgow.  Here James, Sr., was educated and married, and engaged
in farming and merchandising and the tobacco trade all his life.  He
twice represented Barren County in the Lower House of the Kentucky
Legislature, and once in the State Senate.  In 1846, with other
gentlemen, he established a large tobacco warehouse at New Orleans, the
firm being known as Hewitt, Norton & Co., and for many years was
extensively engaged in flat-boating tobacco from the Barren River
country to New Orleans.  His death occurred in that city during the
great cholera scourge of 1849.  His father, Col. Samuel Murrell, was a
colonel in the Continental Army under Washington, in the Revolution.  He
served during the entire struggle and participated in the battles of
Trenton, Yorktown and others; was present at the surrender of
Cornwallis, and was one of the little band of patriots who endured the
rigors of the winter of 1777 at Valley Forge.  After coming to Kentucky
he served as an officer for many years in the State militia, and more
than once represented Barren County in the State Legislature.  He and
wife, Susan (Puryear) Murrell, were life-long members of the Old School
Presbyterian Church.  She was a native of Virginia, and during the
Indian troubles in that colony, her brother was captured by the savages,
who bound him to a tree and left him to starve; when found he had eaten
the flesh from his shoulders as far as he could reach.  Robert Murrell
is the only surviving son of the Colonel; he was for many years a
prominent merchant of Louisville; later he moved to New York, where he
amassed a large fortune, and is now living in retirement.  James Murrell
(subject), after his father's death, in 1849, made his home with his
grandfather Moss, a hotel-keeper at Glasgow.  After attaining his
majority he received the contract to carry the United States mail betwen
Glasgow and Cave City; he had been the subcontractor previously.  In the
early part of 1862 he and the mail were captured by a squad of
Confederates, but retaken by a detachment of Federals and brought to
Glasgow, where he was imprisoned by order of the provost-marshal of that
place, J. W. Gorin; three weeks later he was released by order of
President Lincoln through Col. Haggard, of the Fifth United States
Cavalry (Confederate service), and served under Gen. John H. Morgan
until the latter's raid through Ohio and Indiana.  Mr. Murrell, having
been left on the Kentucky side of the river, was not in the raid.
Afterward he served on detached duty as special couriere or escort until
the close of the war.  He participted in the battles of Stone River,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and many
others; he surrendered at Weldon, N. C.; was paroled at Atlanta, Ga., by
Gen. Wilson, May 8, 1865, and set out for home, accomplishing most of
the journey on foot.  After his return he engaged in the stage business
between Glasgow and Burkesville, and after a few months of success
embarked in the hotel business at the former place.  In this Mr. Murrell
has been very successful and popular; his new hotel is one of the best,
most convenient and complete in its appointments of any to be found in
southwestern Kentucky; it is supplied with all modern conveniences and
improvements, and is first class in every respect.  From 1874 to 1878
Mr. Murrell was sheriff of Barren County, and for many years served as
marshal of Glasgow.  In October, 1861, he married Victoria Nuckols, a
native of Barren County, Ky., she was the daughter of Hezekiah and Susan
J. (Foster) Nuckols, natives of Virginia, and died April 5, 1881, a
member of the Baptist Church.  Mr. Murrell's second marriage took place
in November, 1882, with Mrs. Mary (Bohannon) Nuckols, also a native of
Barren County, and a daughter of Judge Bohannon.  Their union has been
blessed with one daughter - Little Jim.  Mr. Murrell is a member of the
K. of P., K. of H., and of the A. O. U. W.; poltically he is a Democrat.

Bohannon Cornwallis Foster Gorin Haggard Hewitt Lincoln Morgan Moss
Norton Nuckols Puryear Wilson Washington
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Albemarle-VA Burkesville-Cumberland Green IN Louisville-Jefferson 
New_Orleans-LA NY OH VA

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