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confusing. It is often spelled “Harriel” or “Harrell.” This can be seen in the
Crane Creek cemetery, for three of Mary’s sons are buried there with “three”
different spellings of the Hariel name! To keep things simple, we will use the
“Hariel” spelling in this paper. Mary had the following children:
1.	Henry Rutillus Hariel - bom on April 12, 1885, and died in Decemberl967. He married Florence Smith and resided near the Crane Creek community in Hancock County.
2.	William “Harrison” Hariel - bom on October 12, 1888, and died on March 22, 1937. He married Caroline Smith and resided near the Crane Creek community.
3.	Mary “Elizabeth” Hariel - bom on December 27, 1891, and died on September 21, 1976. She resided in the Crane Creek community and never married. In 1973 she gave us much of this information on this family and has since died.
4.	Mack Arthur Hariel - bom on January 10, 1893, and died on November 9, 1950. He married Dorothy Breland and resided in Crane Creek community.
5.	John T. Hariel - bom on October 7, 1895, and died on June 3, 1941. He married Mattie Seal and resided in Crane Creek. After he died, his widow moved to Gulfport, MS.
VI.	Keziah “Kezzie” Brown - according to her head marker in the Hill-Mathis cemetery, in Pitkin, LA, she was bom on February 14, 1832, and died on July 26,1911. She appears in the 1850 Hancock County census with her parents, and it states she was bom in 1840. Keziah is also found in the 1880 census of Vemon Parish, LA, as born in MS in 1837. She is again found in the 1900 census of Vemon Parish as born in August 1836, and in the 1910 census of Vemon Parish, she is listed as bom in 1836.
Looking at the 1850 census, Keziah is listed as the next bom child after her sister, Jane E. Brown who was bom in 1838. After studying the above censuses, one can conclude that Keziah was probably bom in 1840, and the year of birth as found on her headstone, 1832 is wrong.
According to descendants, Kezzie had red hair, and two people have photographs of her. Mrs. Mittie Beeson of Pitkin, LA, has one, and Mrs. Eva Landrum (Louis) Bounds of Picayune, MS has one with Kezzie, and her second husband, sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of their old home in Pitkin, LA. Kezzie married first to Franklin Plummer “Frank” Landrum according to the Hancock County marriage record which was dated February 12, 1854. She lived in Hancock County while married to Landrum and had several children there. In the Hancock County, Mississippi Probate Court in the June term of 1866, page 41, Keziah Bedgood applies for guardianship of the following children: Lucius Landrum, Artimisa Landrum, Mary A. Landrum, Albert Landrum, and F. P. Landmm, minor heirs of F.P. Landrum, deceased. After Landrum died in 1863 in Hancock County, she married second to John Hanford “Doc” Bedgood on February 28, 1864 according to the Hancock County marriage record. After having a few more children by Bedgood, the family moved to Pitkin, LA, where many of their descendants still live. All of the Landrum children left except one, Luke Landrum. He stayed in Hancock County with his aunt
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