One of my mom's best friends was Martha Ede Purcell Sharkey, who was Joe Purcell's sister. She died a few years ago and her husband is living in Florida, along with a daughter of theirs. Mom was also a friend of Joe's, as was my family in Benton-G.G. and Mary Jean. I'm fairly certain I can find them, but they may want to know why you need the family history....are you compiling info. on Fredrick Purcell? Kathy Scheibner ----- Original Message ----- From: "bjw" <> To: <ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Purcell/Koppel families > I have been asked to write papers/essays on two families who were in Bradley Co in the early 1900's. One family was the Jake and Frances Koppel family that managed a department store named Abroms, I believe they moved to Warren from Dermott where Jake's brother-in-law, Abe Abroms had a department store. > > The other family is the Fredrick Linton Purcell family. He was brought to Warren as a lawyer for the lumber cos. His grandson was Joe Purcell [born Warren] that was later an attorney here in Benton, then attorney general of the State, then Lt. Gov and acting Gov for a very short time. I know that Joe's mother was Lynelle Cunningham and that her family had a grocery store there. > > If anyone knows anything about these families or connects with them, please contact me. Thanks > > Jann > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/713 - Release Date: 3/7/07 9:24 AM > >