Background
John Harrell was born on Octover 21, 1806, in Perquimans County, North Carolina, United States.
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John Harrell was born on Octover 21, 1806, in Perquimans County, North Carolina, United States.
At the age of seventeen John Harrell was licensed to preach, at twenty-one he was admitted on trial to the Tennessee Conference, and two years later he was admitted to full connection. In 1831, when Bishop Roberts called for volunteers to go to the Arkansas District of the Missouri Conference, John Harrell responded and was appointed to work along the border between Arkansas and the Indian Territory. A considerable proportion of his constituents were members of the newly transported Indian tribes from Georgia, and during the year 1832 he organized the first preaching “circuit” among the Cherokees.
In 1850 Harrell transferred from the Arkansas Conference to the Indian Mission Conference, in which body for twenty-six years he worked with fatherly interest among these “first Americans. ” At one time or another he was Presiding elder of every district in the Indian Mission Conference, giving fifteen years to that task, and for five years he directed the affairs of New Hope Seminary and the Asbury Manual Labor School, for Indian girls and boys respectively. During the war he served for three years as chaplain in the Confederate army. For three years also he was superintendent of the Indian Mission Conference, and on occasion, when it was impossible for the bishop to reach the seat of the annual conference, he was elected President. Five times he was sent as delegate to the General Conference.
Harrell survived his wife but a few weeks and was buried beside her at the Old Ashury Mission, Eufaula, Oklahoma.
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Harrell was married in 1832 to Eliza Williams, in Washington County, Ark.