Editor; archivist.  Born July 26, 1901, Waco, Texas.  Parents– Charles Arthur and Clementine Fason Chappell.  Married–Frank Lawrence Owsley, July 24, 1920.  Children–two.  Education– Birmingham-Southern College, 1919-20; Vanderbilt University, 1921-23; George Peabody College for Teachers, B.S., 1925.  Worked with her husband, Dr. Frank Lawrence Owsley, editing his historical work.  Director of Manuscript Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1958-70.  Member Society of American Archivists, Southern Historical Association.  Died July 2, 1999.

Source;

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;
Frank Lawrence Owsley,  Historian of the Old South: A Memoir.  University of Virginia Press, 1990.

Editor;

King Cotton Diplomacy.  2nd edition.  University of Chicago Press, 1959.

The South, Old and New Frontiers:  Essays of Frank Lawrence Owsley.  University of Georgia Press, 1967.

Joint_editor:

The Papers of Andrew Jackson.  University of  Tennessee Press, 1978.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Harriet Chappell Owsley is helf by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.