William Frederick Will Ezell

After grandfather Frederick and father Jeremiah's death, and the rape of sister Mary and the subsequent deaths of brothers Nathan and Jeremiah, the family left Williamson County, Tennessee, for northwest Arkansas. They were accompanied by Frederick's only remaining son Samuel and daughter Elizabeth and their families. Will settled in northwest Arkansas. The rest of the family continued on to Texas, and some on to Arizona.

(fr. "Ezell Family in America, The: Descendants of George Ezell of Old Colonial Surry, VA., 1692-1961" and "History of Our Ezell Families in Arizona, by Nellie Colbert Ezell, 1996")

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Elmer Ezell told L D Ezell that Will had a scar on his forehead and a gunshot wound in his knee, supposedly Civil War wounds (but L D wondered if they were from incidents surrounding Mary's attack and Nathan's and Jerry's deaths) (s.127).

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SCRAPBOOK Picture 1: Ezell-Cowan Family Photograph

Taken in front of the family home, later known as Harve Ezell's house, in Washington Co, Arkansas, about 1891.

From left to right (where two names are given, the first is by L. D. Ezell, the second is by Elmer Ezell):

1.?? (or Jewel Cowan)

2.Betty Mathews (or Nannie Webb, wife of 11)

3.Sid Cowan, son of 2 and 11

4.Melissa Cowan, wife of 9

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7.Louisa Jane Dunagan, mother of 4

8.?? (or Harve Ezell, son of 9)

9.William Frederick Ezell, husband of 4

10.?? (or Earl Ezell, son of 9)

11.Richard Cowan, Jr., brother of 4

12.Skilee (Skiles?) Cowan, brother of 4

13.Richard Frederick Ezell, son of 9

14.Jerry Connie (Con) Ezell, son of 9

15.Hugh Ezell, son of 9

16.Harve Ezell, son of 9 (or ??)

Prepared January 1995

By Richard Dale Ezell, great-great-grandson of William Frederick Ezell, through Richard Frederick, Claude Elmer, and Billie Dale.

Identification by Elmer Ezell and L. D. Ezell.

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House location: 8.4 miles north of US 62 on Washington County 33, on the left (south and west) side, where the road turns back north. Or 2.4 miles south of Ark. 16. (s: Richard Dale Ezell)

EZELL, William Frederick – Malissa Jane Ezell, widow of William F. Ezell, who died January 25, 1921, filed Widow Application #27106 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate widow pension and it was received as allowed August19, 1926 at the State, citing her husband’s service with the Tennessee Infantry from 1861 thru 1865 Mrs. Ezell died January 22, 1939. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]