Hi my Grandmoms dad was Jose M Morales Ofarril

Sue

Do you have any information on James Pannell who lived in Philadephia in the 30's and 40's. I believe he was born in 1914.
Any help is appreciated.

thank you.

squalls9@aol.com

I'm sorry, I don't. I only have what little I have regarding the Pannell's of Georgia/South Carolina.

Katie

I've tried this before with little success but since we've recently changed e-mails I'll try again. I'm interested in any information that traces the Pannells back through Georgia, SC probably to Virginia. I've got quite a bit of info of those from the 1820's forward in my line but I have always hit a snag earlier. These are specifically the Joseph Sanford Pannell line. I know that he is listed as being from S Carolina with a wife Siddie (Lydia) but that's sll I've been able to find.
I'd like to restart my research but I haven't found any new leads in a while.
e-mail at panellldl@verizon.net

My branchh of the Pannell family came through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and settled in Mississippi. They were slave owners of a decent ammount by the time of the Civil War. I know from my history classes in college that freed slaves sometimes took their former masters' names so that could account for some of the African-American Pannells, especially those living in northern Mississippi

Ours were mostly tenent farmers working on the farms of other, larger land owners. Some of the sons married into these families.
I worked with a researcher in Atlanta years ago and the other explanation we got on the name was that Pannell/Panell was a variation of paynelle which was a French term for Pagan worshiper. Apparently the name was used for some of the original Celts as well as for Africans brought to the South through New Orleans