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| Warner Harrell Photo Courtesy: Montreal Harrell |
Warner Willie Harrell was born to Alexander and Emma Mead Harrell. He was born in 1892 in Amite, Louisiana. His WWI Draft Registration Card documented that he was self-employed as a farmer. He was married to Velma Warford in Amite, Louisiana. He and Velma had two sons; Willie and Dan Harrell. His siblings were; Authur, Ella, Shelton, Henry, Alex, Edgar, Virginia, Jasper, Bertha, and Palmer Harrell. His brother Henry moved to Milwaukee and died there.
Warmer died in 1949 at the age of fifty- six years old in Milwaukee County Asylum from advanced Pulmonary Tuberculosis and is buried in Glen Oaks Cemetery in Milwaukee. On his death certificate his brother Henry was the informant.
When he left and went up North, he never returned to Louisiana to live and rarely visit the Deep South. His offsprings knew very little about their family in the south. I found them on facebook and start inviting them to our Harrell family page.
Years ago, my Uncle Raymond took me to Milwaukee to meet cousin Dan Harrell and his wife. Cousin Willie had just passed away when I went to visit. I was delighted to meet the family. We sat and talked with them and looked at pictures and took pictures. The family down south knows very little about Uncle Warner. Uncle Raymond told me that the woman in the picture is his sister Bertha Harrell Hooper.
On his Draft Registration Card, they listed him as African. The 1910 United State Federal Census listed him as Mulatto. Uncle Warner
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