{"id":2352,"date":"2020-10-02T11:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2020-10-03T04:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T09:09:20","slug":"goodspeed-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/goodspeed-o\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODSPEED – O"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887<\/big><\/big>

Biographies of Weakley County<\/big>


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Robert A. ORRELL\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdS birth occurred in King William’s County, Va., March 30, 1836.\u00a0 His parents’, Thomas and Mary Ann (Tuck) Orrell’s, family consisted of four children, two of whom are living: William J., and our subject, who were reared under the paternal roof, and received little or no early educational advantages.\u00a0 In 1856 Robert united his fortunes with those of Margaret Rasdal, who was born in Gibson County, October 5, 1836, and died February 27, 1886, leaving the following family: William Thomas, George M., John F., Fannie Bell, Elizabeth Ellen, Rufus E., Arminta G., Marion V., Jeff Davis, James K. and three other children deceased.\u00a0 Mr. Orrell farmed in Arkansas about six years and then came to Weakley County and purchased fifty-eight acres of land, on which he located and has since resided. By skillful management and industry he now owns 220 acres.\u00a0 In 1862 he joined Company E, Fourth Arkansas Battalion, and participated in some of the principal battles of the late war.\u00a0 He was captured at Perryville, Ky., and taken to Louisville, but was paroled after one week.\u00a0 He is a Democrat in politics, and James Buchanan received his first presidential vote. His father was born in King William’s County, Va., in 1775.\u00a0 He married Elizabeth Taylor when about twenty two years of age.\u00a0 She died in 1834, and he then married Mary Tuck. The father came to Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1842.\u00a0 He made farming his calling through life, and died in 1857.\u00a0 His wife was born in 1816, and is now living with our subject.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887 Biographies of Weakley County Biographies – O \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert A. ORRELL\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdS birth occurred in King William’s County, Va., March 30, 1836.\u00a0 His parents’, Thomas and Mary Ann (Tuck) Orrell’s, family consisted of four children, two of whom are living: William J., and our subject, who were reared under the paternal Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 2, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 2, 2020 11:31 am","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020 4:09 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}