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 his connections in this business, Mr. Harrell in 1891 became associated with Samuel Ferebee, his son-in-law, in coal and ice dealings, and with him formed the Norfolk Coal and Ice Company, of which Mr. Harrell is now president. He is also president of S. B. Harrell &• Company, cotton brokers, and is the active head of both prosperous concerns. Mr. Harrell is a loyal Democrat, and his religious denomination is the Methodist Episcopal. Holder of an important place in the business world of Norfolk, his position in other spheres of civil life is no less worthy. and he is a citizen of many interests. He is a gentleman of pleasing address and personalitv, and by straightforward and honorable business methods has won many friends among his associates. He married. August 25, 1869. at Durant's Neck, North Carolina. Susan Grizzelle Leigh, daughter of Edward A. and Margaret Stephenson (Jacocks) Leigh. Mr. and Mrs. Harrell have one daughter, Margaret Jacocks, who married (first) Samuel Ferebee, (second) F. S. Sager. By her first marriage she is the mother of Samuel H. Ferebee, a student in Columbia University, New York : Leigh Cason Ferebee and George E. Ferebee, both students in Norfolk high school.

(HI) Mary Catharine Harrell. fourth child and second daughter of Samuel Rid- dick and Alary Elizabeth (Yaughan) Har- rell. was born February 12, 1847. ^'^^ mar- ried, February 16, 1871, Jonathan Henry Jacocks, and has children: i. Grizzelle Leigh, born January 11, 1877. 2. Henry Morgan, born December :^i, 1878: married, November 14, 1906, Helen Davenport Miller, and has Jonathan Davenport, born March i, igo8, Henry Morgan, Jr., born July 17, 1910. and Alfred Miller, born November 29, igi2. T,. Jonathan Wilbur, born Decem- ber 21, t88o. 4. Estelle Augusta, born Janu- ary 24, 1884. Grizzelle Leigh and Estelle Augusta are unmarried and reside with their parents.

Jonathan Henry (2) Jacocks, son of Jona- than Henry (i) and Grizzelle Pointer (Copeland) Jacocks, was born at Nag's Head, North Carolina, August 7, 1841. His father was a native of North Carolina, and follower of agriculture all his life. Jona- than H. (i ) Jacocks was a loyal Whig, and was several times elected to represent his district in the state legislature, always. whether in public or private life, striving for the welfare of county and state. He was a member of the constitutional convention, and was long known as General Jacocks, that being his rank in the state militia. His religious activity was as a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and although the nearest house of worship of that denomi- nation was eighteen miles distant from his home, he was one of the most regular at- tendants of the congregation. He was the father of six children, one of whom is living at this time, Jonathan H., of further men- tion, Grizzelle Emily, deceased, married E. A. Lee.

Jonathan Henry (2) Jacocks was, as a youth, a pupil in the academy at Elizabeth City, and after attendance at other institutions, among them the Horner School at Oxford, completed his academic studies in the University of Virginia. Soon after leaving the university he returned to his home and enlisted in the Confederate service. In the early part of his soldier's career he was taken prisoner at Roanoke Island, and after a two weeks incarceration was paroled, subsequently serving with gallantry and distinction for the remaining three and one-half years of the war. The resumption of peace found him engaged in farming in his native state, and in January, 1882, he moved to Berkley, Virginia, his present home. His first business venture in this place was in real estate, which he abandoned for commission dealing, two years later entering his present business, coal, building material and feed. Mr. Jacocks is the owner of two farms, which he rents, and aside from his private business operations, is a stockholder and director of the Merchants' and Planters' Bank, of Berkley, a trustee of the Berkley Permanent Building and Loan Association, and a trustee of the Chesapeake Building and Loan Association. For five years, ending in 1901, Mr. Jacocks was a member of the I!erkley council, attending to his duties in that body with fidelity and public spirit. He holds membership in the Protestant Episcopal church, his wife a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, while his fraternal relations are with Lee Lodge, No. 48. Knights of Pythias, in which he is master of the exchequer. Mr. Jacocks' successful career has its easy explanation in his perseverance and industry, and the prosperity that has attended his labors is his just