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1751

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The 1840 census shows three males 5-10 (Alexander, Martin and ???), one male 10-15 (???), one male 30-40 (Ruel), one female 5-10 (Diana), one female 10-15 (Sally), one female 40-50 (apparently Nancy, although she may not be that old), and one female 60-70 (Ruel's mother). The unidentified males on the 1840 census are probably Nancy Jarrell's sons from her first marriage. The male age 10-14 is probably Jesse Conn, and the one age 5-10 is probably Ira Conn. Another son William Conn is speculated but not proven to be Nancy's. The 1850 census shows two males in Ruel and Nancy's household - Alexander born 1832 and Martin born 1835. They are too old to have come from Ruel and Nancy's 1838 marriage.

It's hard to identify anyone else that this Mary Fitzgerral could be. There's room to speculate that the wife of Agga or Ansel was named Mary, but the father was always the preferred signer and mom didn't get to sign unless father wasn't there. Ansel's wife in particular doesn't work as an alternative scenario for Thomas's parentage.  Susannah was Ansel's daughter, and he signed the permission slip for her to marry Thomas. It's unlikely that the court would let Thomas marry his sister, and if they did then Ansel could have signed for both of them. Carroll's wife was named Mary, but they didn't have a son named Thomas and none of their children were old enough to get married in 1822.

The names of a Mary and Thomas Jarrell who do not appear to be husband and wife appear on an 1832 deed, leading to the suspicion that they were mother and son.  But William and Susannah have many unidentified grandchildren, so it's also possible that they were brother and sister, perhaps the heirs of a deceased child of William and Susannah. Alternatively, we can't rule out the possibility that this is Ansel's widow and son. An 1834 deed shows two Polly Jarrells; one of them is expected to be William and Susannah's daughter, but we can't tell whether the second one is a typo or if there really were multiple people with that name. One of the Pollys is listed right below Carroll Jarrell, who did have a wife named Mary/Polly.  But there's not a good reason to include his wife on either of these deeds, and in any case they did not have a son named Thomas.

Thomas married his cousin Susannah in 1822. It looks like maybe they separated and went on to marry other people, in possibly bigamous relationships. But it's also possible that there was more than one Thomas, and Susannah was a widow when she remarried.

There are a lot of undocumented claims about the identity of these other children. The most noteworthy: William Crum 1824-aft 1900 who married Amanda Robinson (line of descent: William/Susannah> Ansel Jarrell> Susannah Jarrell> Amanda Robinson) is often claimed to be a son, but no documentation on his parents can be found. If his birth year is correct, he doesn't fit into the 1830 census, but he could be the one male 15-20 on the 1840 census.

There is also a Sarah Crum 1830-aft 1910 who married James Earls in Floyd County in 1846. The marriage record says her father is Michael Crum, but her mother is not listed and we can't be certain that it's the same Michael. If she was born in 1830, she could be one of the three females under five on the 1830 census, and the one female 5-10 in 1840.

Jane never married, but that didn't stop her from having five children.  DNA evidence indicates that the three boys each had a different father, and the paternity of the two girls can not be determined.

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