Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 18 Jul 2003

• Nathan Harrell tombstone photo at Bethel Baptist Church (Ft. Ancient Hilltop) Cemetery
• Tombstone photos for Zephania Lee and Elizabeth (Cole) Lee, wife of Zephania at Bethel Baptist Church (Ft. Ancient Hilltop) Cemetery.

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J. H. HARRELL, farmer; P. O. South Lebanon; the subject of this memoir was born in Fredericksburg, this county, in 1820; he is a son of John Harrell, who came from Culpeper Co., Va., with his father, Nathan, about the year 1800, and settled in Union Township; he, Nathan, served as a soldier during the war of the Revolution; he and his wife were strict and consistent members of the Baptist Church. John Harrell was married to Elizabeth Lind, who bore him six children, viz., Mary A. and George (twins), Matilda, James M., Eliza and John H. Mr. Harrell died in 1824; his wife removed to Illinois, where she died in 1873, at the remarkable age of 102 year. George Lind, father of Mrs. Harrell, was born in Yorkshire, England; when a boy of 16 years, he emigrated to America, which was before the Revolutionary war; he clerked in New York for awhile, and when the war broke out, enlisted and served throughout that great struggle; he, with his family, came to Ohio about 1800 and settled on land adjoining Nathan Harrell, opposite Morrow, and the place is yet known as the ”Old Lind Farm.” On the place he settled, he lived and died one of the most respectable and esteemed of the early settlers. Our subject lived on the “Old Lind Farm” until 14 years old, when he went to Lebanon, where he served his term at blacksmithing, but never followed it on account of failing eyesight, from which time he followed various pursuits for many years. In 1848, he was married to Keziah Lee, who has borne