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B. C. Jarrell, member of the Humboldt Buggy & Wagon Company, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., on the 5th of February, 1836, and is the third son and the fourth born of fifteen children (ten of whom grew to maturity) of Fountain and Elizabeth Jarrell, who were born in Virginia and North Carolina respectively. Fountain Jarrell left his native State when seven years of age, and until 1830 resided in North Carolina. He then came to Tennessee, where he soon married, and purchased a farm in Wilson County, where he spent the remainder of his days, with the exception of two years, 1839 and 1840, when he lived in Illinois. He died in 1862. His widow yet resides on the home place, hale and hearty, although seventy-six years of age. B. C. Jarrell, our subject, remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age. He then engaged in the milling business near Lebanon, but sold out in the fall of 1870, and located at Humboldt, where he erected a new saw-mill, which he operated until 1880. At that time the firm known as the Humboldt Buggy and Wagon Company was organized, and he became one of the leading partners. Their fruit-box business amounts to about $40,000 per annum. He is a Democrat, and a strong temperance man, and belongs to the Masonic, G. T., K., of H., and K. & L. of H. fraternities. On the 24th of February, 1859, he married Elizabeth F. Pearce, of Lebanon, born February 22, 1839, daughter of Joseph K. and Mary (Latimer) Pearce. They have six children, four living: James R., Benjamin Fountain, Carrie E. and Charles T. Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell are members of the Baptist Church, and the former has been deacon in the same for twenty-three years. Mr. Jarrell is a man of exemplary habits, never having uttered an oath, been intemperate, or gambled.