A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1065
James Gorsell, a practical farmer, of Brown Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is a son of William Gorsell, who was born in Devonshire, England, was there married to Elizabeth Bowmens, and became the father of the following children: Grace, Burdon, John, William, James and Henry—all born in England. The family were Methodists in religious belief, and on coming to America lived for some time in New York state, and then in upper Canada for six years, then came to Indiana and settled in Hendricks County, where the father died in July, 1866, his wife having departed in 1865. The birth of James Gorsell took place February 28, 1827; at the age of twenty-six years he came to America with his parents, and for the past ten years he has been living on his present farm in Hendricks County, which contains 130 acres and is highly improved. He has been faithful to his adopted county, having enlisted, in August, 1862, in Company K, Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and having fought at Perryville, Stone River (where he was severely wounded), Rocky Faced ridge, Marietta, Chattahoochie River, in front of Atlanta for a month, at Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville, and being honorably discharged in the spring of 1865. He married Sarah J. Hatcher, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Hollingsot) Hatcher, and has two children—William J. and Ralph W., who have been reared in the faith of the Methodist Church, to which the parents faithfully cling.