The Correl name is often mis-pronounced and written incorrectly. Pronounced "Coral" we have seen it spelled Correll, Corel, Curle, and Carroll with its variants. In fact th origin of the name is most likely one and the same.

William Correl, was born about 1790 in Virginia. He married Rebecca Oney 06 June 1811 in Tazewell County Virginia. By 1814 William is paying tax on property at Maiden Springs Fork of the Clinch River.

In September 1819 William and Rebecca attend the sale of the estate of a Martha Correl in Tazewell County. They are among several others with the last name Correl that make purchases including Samuel Correl, Burdine Correl, Joshua Correl and a Peggy Bowen. Joshua later married Jane Wynn in 1827 in Tazewell and Burdine married Lydia Doke in 1824.

William Correl and his wife Rebecca were the parents of 15 children born between 1811 and 1824. One daughter Martha died in Tazewell County in 1828. Many of the children migrated to Missouri and Kansas. Our ancestor Rebecca Ann married Robert McGlothlin and migrated to Boyd County, Kentucky. Her husband fought for the Confederacy. Grandson John, son of Rebecca Ann McGlothlin, was killed serving the Confederacy in Wytheville, Virginia. Daughter, Jemima died from a measles epidemic in Kansas and her husband David McGlothlin brought the younger children back to Paintsville, Kentucky about 1856. The 1855 epidemic also killed William and Rebecca’s son Henry, his wife and two children. Grandson Henry H. McGlothlin, son of David fought in the Kansas Calvary. And great grandson, John Salathiel, was a member of John Brown’s Regulars.

In 1850 William and Rebecca settled in Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri while it was still a territory. William gives his occupation as a wheelwright. A wheelwright makes wheels of wood and they could be strapped with iron as well. His death occurred shortly after the census was taken in August 1850.