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Note: from "Compendium of Biography" (Cumberland Region of Tennessee) pub. 1898
-George E. Kell-
One of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of Van Buren County, Tennessee, is Mr. Kell, who has been identified with the agriculture interests of the Sixth district for many years. Since 1871 he has resided upon his present farm. comprising one hundred and eighty four acres of rich and arable land under a high state of cultivation and well improved. In addition to general farming and stock raising, he is also interested in milling with his son, Henry.
Mr. Kell was born August 17, 1830, on the west side of the valley in what is now Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee, and was named for two pioneer Baptist ministers of East Tennessee- Rev. George Walker and Rev. Moses Easterly, his name being George Easterly Kell. His parents Thomas and Lydia (Lakey) Kell, were both natives of North Carolina, where their marriage was celebrated, and from there they later moved to the Elk River country, Tennessee. They subsequently came to Sequatchie Valley, where the grandfather, William Kell, had purchased a large tract of land but had received a fraudulent title to the the same. He was afterwards forced to sell his slaves to pay for this land the second time. Upon his own land he built the first Baptist church in the valley. When well advanced in years he went to Illinois and there his death occurred. Thomas Kell and family moved from the Sequatchie Valley to Warren County, locating near McMinnville, Tennessee, where he and his wife both died
1850 Warren Co. census 1880 Warren Co. census
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