Joseph Damrell
and Phoebe Wright

Joe Damrell Photos Sent in by Jerry Davis

Phoebe Wright Damrell Photo Sent in by Jerry Davis

Joseph Joe Damrell b 8 Nov 1843 Breathitt Co KY d 20 Dec 1927, buried 24 Dec 1927, Damrell Cemetery, Cartersville, Garrard Co KY, s/o  Samuel Damrell and Sarah Elizabeth Stamper. Joseph Joe Damrell m. 12 Jul 1861 Campton Wolfe Co KY to Phoebe Wright b 3 Mar 1846 Letcher Co KY d 3 Jan 1913 Berea, Madison Co KY d/o Hiram Wright and Susannah Profitt Roarke. Thanks to Jerry Davis for submitting updates to this family. Children of Phoebe Wright and Joseph Joe Damrell;

i. William Damrell

ii. Sarah Damrell

iii. Margaret Damrell

iv. Susan Damrell

v. Phoebe Damrell

vi. Josephine Damrell

vii. Elizabeth Damrell

viii. Emanuel Damrell

ix. Dovie Damrell

x. Joseph Damrell

xi. John Damrell

More about Joseph Damrell and Phoebe Wright
Submitted by Jerry Davis:

Joseph Damrell was born November 8, 1843 in southern Breathitt County Kentucky. He was the third son of Samuel Damrell and Sarah Elizabeth Stamper Damrell. He had two older brothers, John and William, and three younger siblings, Margaret, Franklin, and Elizabeth.

He was married to Phoebe Wright in Campton Kentucky on July 12, 1861 by the Reverend John D. Spencer. He joined the Union Army forces, the 47th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company E, along with his brother, John, at Irvine Kentucky on July 27, 1863 and was discharged on December 26, 1864 at Lexington Kentucky.

He returned to Breathitt County, later Lee County Kentucky, for the next twenty years. He moved to Clover Bottom in Jackson County Kentucky in approx. 1884 and later moved to Rockcastle County in approx. 1889. He settled in the Wallaceton-Flat Gap region of Madison and Rockcastle County.

He operated a store and sawmills along with various other businesses. His wife, Phoebe, died on January 3, 1913 and according to family legend, Joseph dressed her in her burial clothes and slept with the body that night. The next day, her body was taken to the area she had previously picked as her burial place and buried between two large pine trees on a knoll behind their home.

Joseph went home and dreamt she was turned the wrong direction and went the next day and resumed her body and turned her around. He remarried Sallie Vaughn Roberts in Richmond Kentucky, on June 20, 1918 and she was his wife at his death on December 20, 1927. The firm of Rominger and Coyle buried him on December 24, 1927 for the sum of 100.00 dollars.

Phoebe Wright Damrell was the wife of Joseph Damrell and the daughter of Hiram and Susan Profit Wright. She was born in Letcher County Kentucky, where her father's people were a predominant family in the community.

She was a first cousin to the famous Kentucky lawman, "Devil John Wright". She had seven sisters, Polly, Celia, Jane, Susan, Emily, Charlotte, and Georgia Ann. She had a brother and sister by her fathers' second marriage to Comfort Lawson, Hiram and Clarinda. She married Joseph Damrell in Campton, Wolfe County Kentucky on July 12, 1861.

This union was to produce 11 children (4 sons & 7 daughters), William, Sarah, Margaret, Susan, Phoebe, Josephine, Elizabeth, Emanuel, Dovie, Joseph, and John. She was married to Joseph for fifty-two years until her death in 1913. She had predetermined her burial place and became the first individual buried in this Cemetery.

Thanks to Jerry Davis for his submissions to this family.