Early Life
According to prison records, John Andrews Murrell was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia and raised in Williamson County, Tennessee. Murrell was the son of Jeffrey Murrell and Zilpha Andrews and the third born of eight children. When incarcerated, his mother, wife and two children lived in the vicinity of Denmark, Tennessee. While in the penitentiary, Murrell learned the blacksmith's trade, lived in Pikeville, Tennessee, and died there of "pulmonary consumption" (probably tuberculosis). In a deathbed confession, Murrell admitted to being guilty of most the crimes charged against him except murder, to which he claimed to be "guiltless."
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