Burrell was the son of Penelope, the Matriarch of the McFarland Clan from Georgia, USA. Please
note that there were other Black McFarlands living in Franklin County, Georgia. They were
Daniel McFarland, Evy McFarland, Peter McFarland. There may have been others.
He also had two brothers, Samuel and Pinkney. We will get to them on another post. Burrell had to be a
resourceful person. He received a homestead from Arkansas in 1897 for 154 acres of land. He had moved
with his family to Arkansas in the early 1890's. We will discuss his wife on a later post.
Burrell's wife was Candice/Kansas Knox. They had eight children - Mattie(1882 - 1910),
Minnie(1885 - 1973), Eveline(1888 - 1977), James(1891 - 1909), Beadie(1892 - 1974),
Lela(1894 - 1921), Alma(1898 - 1961), and Goviner(1900 - 1910). Six girls and two boys.
Burrell who died in 1935, outlived four of his children. Candice died in 1924 and also outlived
four of her children. The remaining four children accept for Alma died in the 70's. Alma died in 1961.
Burrell and Candace took in Mattie's daughter Curley because of her early death. Burrell took in his
daughter, Alma, in 1930 after her husband, Frank Brittian died. His life could not have been easy because
of losing four children. He survived the early chaos after the Civil War and was able to start anew in
Arkansas with his own 154 acres of land as a farmer.
