Household #55: Harrell, James

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In the 1900 Barney census, James Harrell headed a 6-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

James Harrell headed a 6-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 4 children.

James Harrell's listed occupation was Laborer Saw Mill.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

James Harrell appears in the 1900 census at Barney, Brooks County, as a White sawmill laborer living with his wife Lucy and their four children, Charley, Clyda, Mamie, and Ralph. The census gives his birth as August 1862, reports that both of his parents were born in Georgia, and shows that he could read and write. The family was renting rather than owning its home.

The 1900 record is the main surviving source now in hand for this household. It also points to a surname-reading issue, because the indexed entry includes an alternate reading of James Howell. At present, however, the household should be described from the record as Harrell, while noting that Harrell and Howell may need to be checked again against the original image and any later records.

Beyond the 1900 census, the family's earlier and later movements remain uncertain. No confirmed 1880 census placement, 1910 census continuation, marriage record, death record, or burial record has yet been added for James, Lucy, or their children. For that reason, the household is better treated as clearly anchored in 1900 than as fully exhausted.

Open Research Questions

• Parentage audit: Keep head-of-household and spouse parentage as unresolved unless a cited direct record names the parents or the entry explains the census chain supporting the identification.
• Child census audit: Continue direct-record tracking for each child named in the 1900 household where later census, marriage, death, burial, obituary, or other parent-link proof is not already cited above.
• Other household member audit: Verify every non-nuclear household member, including in-laws, boarders, servants, laborers, uncles, grandchildren, and collateral relatives, before treating the stated relationship as part of the proved family structure.
• The original 1900 census image should be checked closely to confirm whether the surname reads more clearly as Harrell, Howell, or another close variant.
• James and Lucy's marriage record has not yet been located, though the 1900 census points to a marriage year of about 1885.
• No confirmed 1880 census identification for James Harrell has yet been added.
• No confirmed 1910 or later census continuation has yet been added for James, Lucy, or the children.
• Death records, burial records, and later marriage records for the children remain to be located.

Research Status

Limited but useful evidence. The household is well anchored in the 1900 census, but the family has not yet been traced securely before or after that record.

Sources

• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, James Harrell household, sheet 3, dwelling 55, family 55.
• Indexed census detail for James Harrell with alternate reading "James Howell," used here only as evidence of surname uncertainty requiring image review.
• FindAGrave negative search in Brooks County cemeteries during this review.

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