Survey map detail; rail line running north east from the end of Sergeantsville. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJames Carrell & Frances Opdycke<\/h3>\n
James Carrell (1812-1874) and John Arnwine Carrell (1810-1895) were brothers, the sons of Daniel Carrell and Elizabeth Arnwine. Daniel Carrell died intestate in 1817, age 52, leaving his five children to sort out who would get his property. Perhaps to avoid controversy, Carrell\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s widow Elizabeth petitioned to have Cornelius Lake of Sergeantsville, who was in no way related to the family, act as Administrator of Daniel Carrell\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s estate. Unlike most cases where the executors or administrators sell off parts or all of the property in public sales, there were no deeds recorded for Daniel Carrell, deceased.<\/p>\n
John Arnwine Carrell (c.1810-1895), the eldest son, had already inherited a farm from his grandmother, Elizabeth Opdycke Arnwine, in 1837. It was located further along on Lambert Road (at Block 25 lot 13) and is today known as the Kurzenberger farm.<\/p>\n
His brother James Carrell (1812-1874) married in 1836 Frances Opdycke (1813-1896), daughter of George Opdycke and Mary Stout of Kingwood. George Opdycke was the second cousin of James Carrell\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s mother Elizabeth Arnwine Carrell.<\/p>\n
James and Fannie, as she was known, had three children:\u00ac\u2020 Mary Elizabeth (1837-1870, married to Peter M. Swope);\u00ac\u2020 Margaret Jane (1839-after 1910, married to Hugh A. Frazer);\u00ac\u2020 and Julia Ann (1847-after 1910, married George M. Coryell). (For more on this family, see The Carrell Family Tree<\/a>.)<\/p>\nJames got ownership of his farm on the outskirts of Sergeantsville by buying out his siblings\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 shares of their father\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s estate. He is shown on the survey map as owning property along the railroad route, but the Beers Atlas seems to have missed him, showing only\u00ac\u2020 his brother, \u201a\u00c4\u00faJ. A. Carrell.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9<\/p>\n
However, he certainly was there. The census of 1870 states that Carrell, then age 55, had property worth $11,000. Living with him were wife Fannie 47, daughter Elizabeth Swope 31 and her son Elmer age 8. (The 1870 census did not identify widows, but the Democrat reported that \u201a\u00c4\u00faMiss Lizzie, eldest daughter of Mr. James Carrell, Esq.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 of Sergeantsville was married to \u201a\u00c4\u00faMr. P. M. Srope of Point Pleasant, Pa.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 by Rev. B. Carrell of Lambertville on March 13, 1861.)