Richard Ferrell (1776 - 1867)

Born 1776 in Russell County, Virginia, United States

Husband of Rebecca (Romine) Ferrell — married 1804 in Russell, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 1867 at about age 91 in Ferrell Branch, Logan County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Richard Ferrell was born in Appalachia, in Virginia (now West Virginia).

Richard was born in 1776.

He passed away in 1867.

History of Logan County, Virginia by Henry Clay Ragland 1896:^[1]

While the Guyandotte Valley was being settled with hardy pioneers from Montgomery and the territory which formerly belonged in that ancient county, the Tug Fork of Sandy was being peopled by those who had for a while paused in their march to the wilderness on the waters of the Clinch and the Holsten. From the time of the building of the old Block House at the forks of Sandy, about the year 1789, frequent visits were made from the cabins on the frontier by daring hunters to their friends in the old fort, but there is no account of any settlement being made on the West Virginia side of the river below the McDowell County line, or even above that line, until the year 1800, when Richard and John Ferrell, sons of Richard Ferrell [sic]^[2], who was killed by the Indians in Thompson's Valley in 1780, settled on the farm where M.A. Ferrell now lives.

Richard Ferrell, the youngest brother, married a Miss Romaines, of Russell County, Virginia, and was the father of ten children - six sons and four daughters. His sons were William, who married Mahala Tiller; John R., who married Elizabeth Coleman; Elizah, who married Barbara Jackson; Richard, who married Letitia Eskew; Evans, who married Martha Duty, and Moses, who married Jane Lockhart. His daughters were Rachel, who married William Tiller; Rebecca, who married Green Justice; Elizabeth, who married Joab Justice, and Nancy, who married Cummings Music [sic, Musick].

John Ferrell married Nancy Jackson of Russell County, Virginia. He was the father of three sons and two daughters. His sons were William, who moved to Roane County; Andrew, who married Polly Slater, and then moved to Missouri; and John, who married Jane Taylor, and was through a long life, a prominent Baptist preacher, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. His daughters were Jennie, who married John Murphy, and Levisa, who married Ralph Steel [sic, Steele], of Island Creek.

Sources

1. ↑ Henry Clay Ragland, History of Logan County, Virginia, 1896, Chapter XVIII.
2. ↑ The father's name is believed to be William Ferrell, and not Richard. There is a positive correlation between the SAR entry for William Ferrell, and his associated descendant list there, with the rest of this biographical sketch of his son, Richard.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DC-11C : 23 December 2020), Richd Ferrell, Logan, Logan, Virginia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M41D-XWR : Tue Apr 04 12:01:07 UTC 2023), Entry for Richd Ferrell and Letitia Ferrell, 1860.

• "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR7-HXRC : 16 August 2019), Richard Ferrell in entry for Nancy Musick, 02 May 1919; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing , Russell, Virginia, United States, entry #, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.

• https://sarpatriots.sar.org/application/display/22854

• https://loganwv.us/henry-clay-ragland/

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: L85B-99Q