Hi Wiley, I have one for you-I have a Jerrell as a given name way back in 1848 in Buchanan Co. MO. His surname was Rutledge and he was the s/o William born in TN in 1795. Now it seems his mother was Diantha Eastman Terrell Rutledge and I assumed the given name was a coruption of her previous name but now begin to wonder. The name over the years is written Gerald, Jerald, Jerrell, but the census pas 1860 all show Jerrell. He went to TX by the 1860 census and lived with an Eastman uncle in Austin Co. Anything that could help will be greatly appreciated. Ginny in Wyoming.