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• Occupation: a farmer and carpenter
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• _UID: C97A4060152C4CA8A21DA134A44C3CE4BC4B
• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Mississippi
• Residence: 1860, Northern Division, Mobile, Alabama

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(except regarding Samuel Owen Russell family from Genealogy and biography of leading families of the city of Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland , 1879) WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, station agent at Arlington and postmaster at Station E, was born in Mobile, Ala., October 11, 1857, the son of Samuel Owens [Owen] and Ellen (Owens) [Odom] Russell, also natives of Alabama. Little is known concerning the ancestral history of the Russell family, save the fact that they came to America from England in a very early day. The father of our subject was a large cotton dealer, having mills in both Alabama and Mississippi, and spending the principal years of his life in Alabama, but his last days in Mississippi, where he died in 1870 [1868]. In political views he was an ardent Democrat. From the breaking out of the Civil war until its close he served in the Confederate army. He was a typical southerner, fond of the south and in sympathy with it in every public issue, a genial, hospitable gentleman, who had many warm friends in the locality where he dwelt. The family of Samuel Owens [Owen] Russell consisted of six children, three sons and three daughters, of whom the others besides our subject are named as follows: Allen, who died in childhood; Charles, a railroad man, now living in Mississippi; Jennie, wife of William D. Martin, who is connected with the railroad and lives at Jackson, Tenn.; Ellen, wife of A. B. Chase, of Alabama; and Delphia Anne, who married J. A. Wimbish and resides at Moselle, Miss. At the time of his father´s death our subject was thirteen years of age, and there-after the support of his mother and a younger brother fell upon him, but he was faithful to the trust and affectionately provided for his mother until she passed from earth in 1888. His education, which was limited, was obtained in the schools of Waynesboro, Miss. At the age of fifteen he went to Jackson, Tenn., where he had charge of a large store for his brother-in-law, remaining there for four years.

Samuel married Eleanor (Nellie) Odom. Eleanor (daughter of William Odom and Adis West) was born about 1825 in Wayne Co., Mississippi; died in 1888 in Laurel, Mississippi. [Group Sheet]

1. Sarah Jane Russell was born on 14 May 1846 in Whistler, Mobile, Alabama; died on 23 Dec 1925 in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee; was buried in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee.
2. Eleanor Russell was born about 1848 in Wayne Co., Mississippi; and died.
3. Delphia Anne Russell was born on 27 Nov 1855 in Alabama; died on 27 Nov 1905; was buried in Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi.
4. William Leroy Russell was born on 11 Oct 1857 in Mobile, Alabama; died on 8 Jul 1917 in Baltimore, Maryland.
5. Charles Henry Russell was born in Nov 1864 in Alabama; died before 1910 in Mississippi.
6. Allen Russell and died.

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• _UID: 885F88A1951E44CA88D8A00FCDEA6E1419CB
• Residence: 1820, Wayne, Mississippi
• Residence: 1830, Wayne, Mississippi
• Residence: 1840, Wayne, Mississippi
• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Mississippi

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There are questions surrounding the wives of William Russell. According to the 1850 census William was born in Georgia about 1781 and Elizabeth, who we assume is his wife, was also born in Georgia, though in 1800. There are no marriage or birth records to confirm the dates in the census. William removed to Wayne, Mississippi prior to 1820 and is found in the 1820 census with 1 boy and 2 girls under the age of 10 in the household as well as 2 more girls between the age of 10 and 15. Also in the 1820 census we have the oldest female being of the age of 26-44 but this could be in error. Elizabeth would have only been 20 in the 1820 census if the 1850 census was correct. So is it possible that William, being 19 years older than Elizabeth, was married prior and some of these children were from a first marriage or other relatives? Together William and his wife or wives had at least 9 known children after 1820 and as many as 5 more previous to 1820. Interestingly none of the children have been found to have named a daughter Elizabeth. William died in Wayne Co., Mississippi and was probably buried at a family plot there. It appears William remarried to the widow of George W. Grayson, Catherine McFarland, for a shortime before he died.
A recent discovery of a death certificate of William's youngest son Solomon who died in Texas in 1922 has his parents listed as William Russell and Mary Clark or could that be Mary Elizabeth Clark?. The informant appears to have been Solomon's oldest son Edmon. Regardless, I have added the last name of Clark to Elizabeth, she is in all likelihood the mother of the 9 known children and possibly 3 of the unknown children born prior to 1820.

William married Elizabeth Clark in Georgia. Elizabeth was born about 1800 in Georgia; died before 1850 in Wayne Co., Mississippi. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Mississippi