Don Joseph E. Murrell

I represent Joseph Murrell, a blanco boy born in Mobile on November 16, 1808. My father was John Murrell, and he died in 1810. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 11 years old. I lived with my widowed mother, Doña Rebecca Hardaway Murrell, and we shared a household with my sister, Doña Maria Murrell del Bario and her husband, Don Manuel. Don Manuel was a sailor from Basque Country in Spain, and they had 2 young children. According to my obituary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, I married Mary McVoy in 1828, and we moved to Mobile in 1837. I became a successful businesman along with my sons, entering the cotton and naval timber industries. I served in the Civil War and became a Colonel. My second wife, Julia LeBaron, survived me. I died in 1890 and am buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile.