Edward Allen Harwell World War I Papers (Z/2321)

Dates: 1918-1919; n.d.

Biography:

Edward Allen Harwell

Edward Allen Harwell, who was known by his middle name, was born on March 3, 1894, in Selma, Alabama. He was the son of Thomas E. Harwell, a railroad foreman and machinist, and Mattie E. Allen Harwell. He had one younger sister, Hazel, and one younger brother, Thomas, Jr. The family moved to Mississippi when Allen Harwell was young; in 1900, they were living in Okolona, Chickasaw County, and by 1910 had moved to Jackson, Hinds County.