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trees on his place, and the splendid ap- 

 pearance of the farm indicates the careful 

 supervision of a progressive owner who 

 keeps in touch with the modern spirit of 

 the times. Joseph Carrell has always taken 

 an active interest in neighborhood and 

 church affairs, and has held numerous town- 

 ship positions and also official positions in 

 the church. His political support is given 

 the Republican party, and fraternally he is 

 connected with the Knights of Pythias 

 lodge at Hatboro. On the 22d of March, 

 1876, Mr. Carrell was married to Elizabeth 

 Watson, a daughter of Conely and Caro- 

 line (Hampton) Watson, of Warminster 

 township. They have three children : 

 Frank Beans, born January i, 1877; Helen 

 Maria, December 4, 1879; and Joseph John 

 Carrell, July 4, 1884. The wife and mother 

 passed away April 3, 1885. The family are 

 identified with the Presbyterian church, 

 which has been the religious faith of the 

 ancestors through various generations. 



Mr. Carrell is the son of Ezra Patter- 

 son Carrell and Margaret Long (Beans) 

 Carrell. Mr. Carrell, Sr., who died a few 

 years ago, was one of the substantial men 

 of Warminster township, always taking an 

 active interest in the affairs of his vicinity. 

 A man of education and refinement, hospit- 

 able, generous, and honored by his neigh- 

 bors for his probity and integrity, he held 

 for many years the office of ruling elder 

 in the Neshaminy church in Warminster, 

 and later in Neshaminy in Warwick. Al- 

 ways interested in church work, he served 

 long and well in the capacities of teacher 

 and superintendent in the Sunday-school, 

 and for many years as chorister in his 

 church. He fully justified in his life the 

 words of his pastor, who prefaced his re- 

 marks at his funeral by these words, "Be- 

 fore me lies the remains of an honest man. 

 The world says that no man can be honest 

 and successful, but the life of Mr. Carrell 

 fully refutes this." Margaret Long Carrell, 

 his wife, is the daughter of John C. Beans 

 and Elizabeth Yerkes. The Beans family 

 are long residents of Warminster. Mrs. 

 Carrell's grandfather, Thomas Beans, was 

 the keeper of the old hotel at Warminster, 

 then a post station on the mail line be- 

 tween Philadelphia and New York, and was 

 a breeder of running horses, having a halt- 

 mile track on the large tract of land which 

 he owned. The holdings of the contiguous 

 estates of the Beans and Yerkes families 

 were the largest in this section, several 

 hundred acres of which is retained in the 

 families. The Beans family trace their 

 genealogy back to Donald Bane of Scot- 

 land, immortalized by Shakespeare. Mrs. 

 Carrell was educated by a private teacher, 

 and later finished her education by a course 

 at a young ladies' seminary at Wilmington, 

 Delaware. She is still living at the home 

 place in Warminster. Mr. and Mrs. Car- 

 rell had five children: i. Joseph, who is a 

 farmer in Warrington township ; 2. John 

 Beans, one of the leading physicians of 

 Hatboro; 3. Emily, who died in infancy; 



4. Ezra P. ; 5. Stacy Beans, of the firm of 

 Worthington & Carrell, of Germantown, 

 Pennsylvania 



Joseph Carrell, the grandfather of Joseph 

 Carrell, Jr., was born June i, 1792, at the 

 old homestead, Carrellton, near Richboro, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. When a 

 young man he learned the trade of car- 

 penter under his uncle, Jesse Johnson, and 

 followed it some years, later, about 1823, 

 purchasing the Carrell farm in Warminster. 

 When quite a young man he enlisted in the 

 army for the war of 1812, in which he 

 served as corporal, and many were the 

 anecdotes he used to tell of camp life at 

 Camp Dupont, where he was stationed, at 

 which time Philadelphia only extended as 

 far north as Vine street and south as far 

 as Pine street. Those who knew him re- 

 member him as a portly old white-haired 

 gentleman, tall and erect, with a military 

 bearing acquired in youth and never for- 

 gotten. He was one of the last survivors 

 of the war of 1812, dying April 25, 1884, 

 and was one of a small coterie of veterans 

 which included himself. General John Davis, 

 W^illiam Bothwell, and one or two others 

 whose relations were very intimate. He was 

 for many years an elder in the Neshaminy 

 church, with the interests of which he was 

 identified all his life. He was married to 

 sisters, Mary and Anna Gill. By his first 

 wife were born Hugh Jamison, Emily and 

 Ezra Patterson. By his second wife, were 

 born Sidney (Montanye) and Elizabeth 

 (Engart). The Gills are an old English 

 family who emigrated to Philadelphia from 

 London, and later settled near Richboro, 

 where many of them still reside. Jacob 

 Carrell, the great-grandfather of Mr. Car- 

 rell, was born at Carrellton and lived there 

 all his life. A man of considerable means, 

 he seems to have devoted himself to home 

 and church. He was married to Elizabeth 

 Jamison, and reared a large family, all of 

 them except one arriving at maturity, and 

 by intermarriage with families in the near 

 vicinity brought the family in relation with 

 many of the leading families of Bucks coun- 

 ty. His children were: Benjamin, married 

 to Mercy Comfort ; John ; Mary, wedded 

 to Lott Bennett ; Sarah, married to Mahlon 

 Banes : James, married to Sarah Ten Wyck 

 and settled in New York; Jesse, married 

 Mary Bennett ; Elizabeth, married to Tohn 

 Cornell ; and Joseph. He was a soldier in 

 the Revolutionary army, serving with his 

 brother in the Northampton guards His 

 wife, Elizabeth Jamison, was the daughter 

 of Daniel Jamison, of Nockamixon town- 

 ship, Bucks county. 



James Carrell, Mr. Carrell's great-great- 

 grandfather, was one of the earliest set- 

 tlers of this section. Whether he came from 

 Ireland or not is not well established. In 

 the register's office is filed the settlements 

 of the estate of Benjamin Carrell in 1733, 

 with James as administrator. Whether he 

 was father or brother is not known, but 

 it is possible that the first settlement of 

 Carrells was in Delaware, as few Scotch- 



