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James Franklin Jarrell
1888–1972
✦ direct ancestor — my children's 2×-great-grandfather
· Jarrell line, the Woodall–Ramsay side
— their mother's people
Life
- Born
- 31 Oct 1888 · Carriere, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA
- Died
- 28 Jul 1972 · Dallas, Texas, USA
- Buried
- Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States of America
Parents
Marriage & children
Hazel Elizabeth Jarrell (1918–2006)
Jetta Belle Jarrell (1919–1988)
James Franklin Jarrell, Jr. (1921–2004)
Melton Lyman Jarrell (c. 1926–1985)
Timeline
- 1900ResidenceYamacraw, Hancock, Mississippi — Age: 11; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
- 1910ResidencePolice Jury Ward 6, Tangipahoa, Louisiana — Age in 1910: 21; Age in 1910: 21; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Boarder
- 25 Dec 1916MarriedAnnie Belle Watkins — Jefferson County, Georgia, USA
- 1920ResidenceMulberry, Crawford, Arkansas
- 1930ResidenceForney, Kaufman, Texas — Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- 1935ResidenceForney, Kaufman, Texas
- 1 Apr 1940ResidenceDallas, Dallas, Texas, United States — Age: 51; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- —ResidenceCrawford, Arkansas
Records behind this page
1900 United States Federal Census
Year: 1900; Census Place: Yamacraw, Hancock, Mississippi; Roll: 808; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0025; FHL microfilm: 1240808
1940 United States Federal Census
Year: 1940; Census Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Roll: T627_4172; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 255-4
Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census
Year: 1910; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 6, Tangipahoa, Louisiana; Roll: T624_532; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0114; FHL microfilm: 1374545
Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census
Year: 1920; Census Place: Mulberry, Crawford, Arkansas; Roll: T625_59; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 11; Image: .Ancestry · subscription
Birth dateabt 1888
Birth placeMississippi
Residence date1920
Residence placeMulberry, Crawford, Arkansas
Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census
Year: 1930; Census Place: Forney, Kaufman, Texas; Roll: 2366; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 4; Image: 125.0; FHL microfilm: 2342100
Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index
Number: [SSN redacted]; Issue State: Arkansas; Issue Date: Before 1951
Ancestry.com, Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013)
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 — James Franklin Jarrell, d. 1972, Dallas
read the transcript
Texas death certificate of JAMES FRANKLIN JARRELL, d. 1972, Dallas. 13. FATHER'S NAME: 'Wiley Green Jarrel' (one L). 14. MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME: 'Cassie Lumpkins' (with S), mother's birthplace 'Carriere, Miss.'. 17. INFORMANT: 'Annie Belle Jarrell M.D.[?]' — his wife, [136]. Cause of death 'stem stroke', interval 3 days. Read on the certificate image. Captures: sources/woodall-ramsay-ring3-2026-08-22/item4-135-jfj-1972-cert-FATHER-col-SSN-excluded.png and item4-135-jfj-1972-cert-MOTHER-INFORMANT-SSN-excluded.png.
Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012)
Ancestry.com, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Registration State: Arkansas; Registration County: Crawford; Roll: 1522838
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Texas Department of Health; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 22 Aug 2026
PROOF CLASS: BOTH PARENTS = DIRECT - his 1972 Texas death certificate, read on the image, states Wiley Green Jarrel [138] and Cassie Lumpkins [139]; K263, reviewed 5 Sep 2026. Reported by his wife [136]; both names differ from the tree by a letter.
AUDITED 22 Aug 2026 - PARENTS PROVEN ON HIS 1972 TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE, an INFORMANT statement by his WIFE and not a birth record. Father 'Wiley Green Jarrel' = [138]; mother 'Cassie Lumpkins' = [139]. ProofFather=1 ProofMother=1 on ChildTable RecID 104 (F88).
THE RECORD. Texas death certificate of James Franklin Jarrell, died 1972 at Dallas. Item 13 FATHER'S NAME 'Wiley Green Jarrel'; item 14 MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME 'Cassie Lumpkins', her birthplace given as 'Carriere, Miss.'; item 17 INFORMANT 'Annie Belle Jarrell'; cause of death 'stem stroke', interval 3 days. Read on the certificate image 22 Aug 2026; captures sources/woodall-ramsay-ring3-2026-08-22/item4-135-jfj-1972-cert-FATHER-col-SSN-excluded.png and item4-135-jfj-1972-cert-MOTHER-INFORMANT-SSN-excluded.png.
⛔ NAME FORMS - BOTH DIFFER FROM THE TREE BY ONE LETTER AND NEITHER HAS BEEN OVERWRITTEN. The certificate writes the father 'Jarrel' (one L) where the tree has [138] 'Wiley Green Jarrell', and the mother 'Lumpkins' (with S) where the tree has [139] 'Cassie Lumpkin'. A single informant's spelling does not settle a surname.
☞ THE INFORMANT IS HERSELF A CORRECTED PERSON. 'Annie Belle Jarrell' is his wife [136], whose OWN parentage was proven wrong on 22 Aug 2026 on her 1978 death certificate (register K257) - she is a Watkins, not a Jarriel, and was re-parented that day. That correction concerns HER ancestry and has no bearing on the reliability of what she reported about her husband's parents, but a later session reading both notes should know the two facts are unrelated.
⛔ HER BIRTHPLACE 'Carriere, Miss.' is new information about [139] and is recorded here only as reported on this certificate. It has not been written to [139] as a fact.
SCOPE. A ring-3 link in the Woodall-Ramsay cone (root [64]). It says nothing about the parentage of [138] or [139], who remain undecided at ring 4.
INFORMANT: item 17 'Annie Belle Jarrell' - his wife [136]. * She is herself a corrected person: her own parentage was proven wrong on her 1978 certificate (K257) and she was re-parented that day. That does not touch this record, but her spellings 'Jarrel' and 'Lumpkins' are one reporter's and did not overwrite the tree.
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