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Hugh Herrell b. abt. 1760-65
According to the census
records of Burke, Yancey and Mitchell Counties, NC, John Herrell was born
about 1795, probably in Burke county, NC. It is thought that John Herrell
was a son of Hugh Herrell a very early settler in the mountains of Western
NC.. The name of Hugha Herrell can be found on early petitions in Burke
county.. According to Herrell family tradition, Hugh drowned in a swollen
stream during a flash flood somewhere near Big Rock Creek. This has not
been proven. Hugh Herrell had several children and John Herrell,
born abt. 1795, is believed to be one of those sons.
John Herrell 1795-1874
John Herrell married
Annah Campbell before 1820, probably in Burke County, NC. John and Annah
had five children; Rebeckah, Hugh, Simon, Lucy and May. All except
Rebeckah are named in Johns' will of 1874.. It is not clear whether
John Herrell died in 1874 or if he wrote his will at that time and died
later..
Hugh Herrell, Heral 1820-1899
Hugh Herrell, Heral married Lydia Charlotte McIntire, d/o Joseph
Mcintire, in NC about 1840.. They had fourteen children one of which died
at birth. At least three others did before reaching maturity.. Joseph
Hamalton Heral was oldest of the two surviving sons, William was the
other.
 About
1858 Hugh Heral moved in a covered wagon to Washington co., Va. Afterwards
he bought a farm in Poore Valley where he and Charlotte lived and are
buried.. Hugh Heral (Herald) fought in the Civil War and while he was gone
from home one of the armies took all of his corn from the corn crib.. With
no feed for the hogs, Charlotte and the women in the valley were forced to
slaughter the hogs and preserve the meat.. Hugh Heral investigated the
idea of exploring for oil on his Poor Valley farm but it was his son,
William who finally arranged to have a test well drilled after his father
had died.. They found no oil but did get a good supply of water.. Hugh
Heral raised sheep, cattle and hogs for sale and grew tobacco.. One family
researcher learned that he also taught singing and may have done some
preaching.. It is believed that he was of the Dunkard religion as was his
brother, Simon, who remained in Mitchell co., NC...
Joseph Hamalton Heral
Joseph Hamalton
Heral s/o Hugh Herrell, Heral and Lydian Charlotte McIntire was born in
Yancey co., NC.. He moved with his father to Washington co., Va about 1858
and it was there that he met and married Mary Jane Roberts, d/o Henry
Roberts and Elizabeth "Betsy"Warren. Joe and Mary Jane Heral had two
children, Milton Houston Heral and Mary Jane Heral who died at birth..
Marys father, Henry Roberts, gave her and Joseph a four hundred acre farm
on Rattle Creek and the North Fork Holston River.. They built a home on
the farm
 and
spent the rest of their lives there.. When Vinie Heral Roberts, Joes'
sister, and her husband, John Roberts died within two weeks of each other,
Joseph and Mary went and got their five small children and raised them.
They also kept some of the McIntire children who were related to Joseph..
Joseph was reputed to have been a very strong man and once when he found a
yearling steer which had eaten stagger weed in the river bottom and
couldn't walk, he got the steer on his back and carried it up a steep hill
to the barn where he planned to treat it but when he slid the animal from
his back two of its legs broke and he lost it anyway.. He suffered a brain
hemorrhage and died after throwing a three hundred pound hog over a fence.
Joseph H. Heral was only fifty four years old when he died.. He and Mary
are buried on the Heral farm on Rattle Creek, Washington county, Virginia. Milton Houston Heral
1876-1920
Milton
Houston Heral was the only son of Joseph and Mary Roberts Heral and he
didn't waste a lot of time getting a family started.. At the age of
fifteen he met Mary Ellen Sledd d/o James Daniel Sledd and Elizabeth
Smith.. They ran off to Bristol, TN and got married and had seventeen
children! Fourteen of them married and had children, Milton and Mary had
over eighty grandchildren! Milton died at age 44 in 1920 at Abingdon ,
Virginia.
Joseph Daniel Hearl 1897-1988
Joseph Daniel Hearl was the third
child born to Milton and Mary Heral. He married Clara Amanda Pippin d/o
Newton King Pippin and Susan Alice Minnick This union produced seven
children, five of whom are still living, G. Lee Hearl among them.. more on
this family later.....
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