From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 309-310.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


ARTEMUS CROUDER HARRELL

Artemus Crouder Harrell, a prosperous retail grocer of Wheeling, and 
a member of the city council, was born at Harrellsville, N.C., 
September 10, 1844.  His father was Alpha B. Harrell, a native of 
Harrellsville, and son of Abner Harrell, a native of Gates county, 
N.C., in honor of whom the birthplace of our subject was named.  The 
wife of Alpha Harrell was Ann E., daughter of John and Ann (Briggs) 
Mansard, the former a native of France and the latter of Gates 
county, N.C.  Alpha Harrell died in 1866, and his wife in 1868.  Of 
their six children the third is the subject of this sketch.  In his 
seventeenth year Mr. Harrell enlisted in Company G, Thirty-first 
North Carolina infantry, and he served in that command one year, then 
enlisting in Company G, Second North Carolina cavalry, with which he 
continued until the close of the war, rendering honorable and gallant 
service in many severe engagements, and serving in all the desperate 
encounters in the vicinity of Petersburg and Richmond.  Then 
returning to Harrellsville he taught school three months, and then 
acted as superintendent for a lumber company on the Roanoke river 
about eighteen months.  About 1868, he went to Martin's Ferry, Ohio, 
and after a year's residence there he moved to Wheeling, where he was 
employed for the first three years in the works of the Wheeling Iron 
and Nail company.  He engaged in the grocery business in July, 1873, 
and has given his attention to that ever since, with marked success.  
In politics Mr. Harrell is prominent as a democrat.  He is now 
serving his third year as a member of the city school board, and his 
seventh year as a member of the second branch of the city council, to 
which he was elected in 1883, 1885, 1887 and 1880.  Mr. Harrell was 
married March 31, 1872, to Jennie Dean, of Martin's Ferry, and they 
have had five children: Lucy B., deceased; Herbert D., Clarence L., 
Royden and Archie.  Mr. Harrell and wife are 
members of the Methodist church. 


(Linda Fluharty)