This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HARRELL RICHARDSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XJB.2ACE/208.240 Message Board Post: I am attempting to go over old posts and correct erroneous information I posted inadvertently while doing research. Elisha (AKA Elijah in some records) HARRELL b. c1776 SC (parents unknown) said to be of Burke County GA m. 27 November 1804 Jane RICHARDSON (b. c1780 GA) in Bulloch County GA. It is written that Jane Richardson was the d/o Benjamin RICHARDSON & Sarah MIZELL. Records show Elisha & Jane Richardson Harrell had a daughter Fannyriah who is known to have been born c1805 in GA. This family migrated c1807 to St Tammany/Washington Parish LA where they are enumerated 1820 Washington Parish. Before the 1830 census the family had removed to Simpson County MS where it is written that Elisha & Jane Richardson Harrell died. Their sons John B. AL m. 1832 Elizabeth PRUITT in Lawrence County MS; Robert b. LA m. Sarah UNKNOWN (no marriage record found); William b. LA m. 1834 Harriet Williams in Rankin County MS; Telfair b. LA m. 1840 Elizabeth Ann PIERCE in Rankin Co! unty MS and Isaac E. "Lige" Harrell b. c1819 LA m. 1843 Selah Jane (AKA Louisa Jane) PIERCE in Rankin County MS. Two other daughters may have been Kesiah & Elizabeth on whom there is no proof of relationship. Selah Jane (AKA Louisa Jane) PIERCE & Elizabeth Ann PIERCE were twin sisters d/o Jesse PIERCE & Mahala NANU (Native American Name Unknown) - Choctaw Tribe. It is NOW accepted that the son of Elisha & Jane Richardson Harrell BTB "ELIJAH HARRELL" was in fact ISAAC ELIJAH "Lige" HARRELL m. 1843 SELAH JANE (AKA Louisa Jane) PIERCE in Rankin County MS. They were the parents of John Richard Harrell, Elisha Harrell, William H. Harrell, Cynthia Harrell, Annie Harrell, Isaac Harrell, G. B. Harrell and Jackson H. Harrell. The proof work on the family of Elisha & Jane Richardson Harrell is an active ongoing group project by their descendants. Lee Strohm Harrell Jacksonville FL