William Horrall,Jr was born in 1757 in the Virgina Colony. About 1770 the family moved to Amhurst County, Virginia. In 1784, William, along with his brother Thomas and his father William Sr. moved to Union County, South Carolina. They lived there until 1809 when he, his father, and Thomas, along with the family of their Methodist minister John Wallace, moved to then Knox County, Indiana in the Northwest Territory. Their Indiana home site is in present-day Daviess County, where they farmed and helped to establish Bethel United Methodist Church in 1815.

William Horrall was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

Marriage #1 - Priscilla Calvert Houghton b: 1757 in Maryland
Married: ABT 1780 in Amherst, VA

Marriage #2 - Eleanor Morgan Walace b: ABT 1760 in Virginia
Married: 28 MAY 1823 in Daviess County, Indiana
(Note: This was also Eleanor's second marrage. Her first husband was John Wallace)

Children of William Horrall & Priscilla:
Mary Horrall b: ABT. 1780 in Union District, SC
John Wesley Horrall b: 25 DEC 1780 in Amherst Co., VA
James Horrall b: ABT. 1782 in Amherst Co., VA
Thomas Horrall b: 10 NOV 1787 in Union District, SC
Sarah Horrall b: 27 NOV 1791 in Union District, SC, died Feb 1872 in Daviess County, Indiana
William B. Horrall b: 14 NOV 1793 in Union District, SC
Priscilla Horrall b: 10 JAN 1796 in Union District, SC
Rachel Horrall b: ABT. 1797 in Union District, SC
Nancy Horrall b: ABT. 1803 in Union District, SC
Coleman C. Horrall b: ABT. 1805 in Union District, SC


Note: Old Bethel Cemetery is located near the origional location of Bethel Methodist Church in Daviess County Indiana, Veale Township, just south of Veale Creek, off CR 50 W, and south of the city of Washington. (This old cemetery is on a farm located between Petersburg and Washington, Indiana. It is sometimes known as the Shanks/Old Bethel Cemetery)