Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.

DR. SAMUEL T. PURCELL, son of Edward and Nancy (Browning) Purcell, was
born October 4, 1823, and is the eldest in a family of five children.
Edward Purcell, was born September 13, 1800, in Ashe County, N. C., and
in 1802 was brought by his parents to Sumner County, Tenn., in 1810 to
Jackson County, same State, where he received his early education.  He
had a natural taste for mathematics and became especially proficient in
surveying, which he followed for many years in the disputed district of
Tennessee and Kentucky; he also followed the cabinet-maker's trade.  He
served as magistrate for many years in Jackson County, Tenn., where he
died August 14, 1843.  He and wife are members of the Christian Church.
His parents were Hardie and Elizabeth (Manning) Purcell; the former, a
native of North Carolina, was one of the pioneers of middle Tennessee;
was a veteran of 1812, and served under Gen. Jackson at the battle of
New Orleans. His father, Edward Purcell, Sr., was born in Ireland, and
when a lad was kidnaped [sic] by some British seamen, who attempted to
make a sailor of him, but finally left him in North Carolina, where he
married a Miss Etheridge. Mrs. Nancy Purcell (mother of Dr. Purcell) was
born in Union District, S. C., February 11, 1792; she was of English
descent and died April 5, 1866. Her father, Charles Browning, was a
native of South Carolina, and in 1803 removed to Monroe County, Ky.,
where he resided until his death. He was an officer of the Continental
Army during the Revolution, and was severely wounded in the upper part
of his face and palate; his wife, whom he married in his native State,
was Martha Hazelwood. Samuel T. Purcell at the age of twenty began the
study of dentistry, and took lessons of instruction under Dr. Shepard,
of Louisville, Ky., and practiced it exclusively for six years; then
commenced the study of medicine and attended lectures at the Eclectic
School of Medicine, Louisville, and the Kentucky School of Medicine at
the same place; finally graduated in 1866 from the Homeopathic Medical
College of Missouri. In 1852 he commenced the practice of medicine in
connection with dentistry in Allen County; in 1857 he came to Glasgow,
and practiced denistry until the fall of 1860, since which time he has
practiced medicine with abundant success, and has built up a large and
lucrative practice. During the war he was assistant acting surgeon of
improvised hospitals at Glasgow for some years.  September 5, 1850, he
married Camilla Forde, in Scottsville, Ky., a native of Warren Co.  Mrs.
Purcell was born in March, 1830, and is a daughter of Richard S. and Ann
M. (Farmer) Forde. One son and five daughters were born to Dr. and Mrs.
Purcell:  Annie E., Lelie (Barbee), Laura (Robertson), Mary C. (Tharp),
Edward (deceased), and an infant not named (deceased). The Doctor and
family are members of the Christian Church, in which he has been a
ruling elder for many years; he is an earnest advocate of the temperance
cause; politically he is a Republican, and during the war was a strong
Union man.

Barbee Browning Etheridge Farmer Forde Hazelwood Jackson Manning Purcell
Robertson Shepard Tharp
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Allen-KY Ashe-NC Ireland Jackson-TN Louisville-Jefferson-KY LA MO 
Monroe-KY Scottsville-Allen-KY Sumner-TN SC Warren-KY

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