Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Russell, James J. March 23, 1823 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 359 & 360

James J. Russell, son of George and Judith (Johnson) Russell, was born in 
Richmond, Ind. March 23, 1823. He grew to manhood on the farm, receiving his 
education in the Friends' school-house at West Grove. Sept. 1, 1844, he was 
married to Rachel, daughter of Isaac and Tamar (Mendenhall) Russell, of Miami 
County, Ohio. They have had five children---Isaac, of  Indianapolis; Elvira, 
deceased wife of George Faucet; Elam, of Indianapolis; Ruth A., wife of 
Alpheus Williams, and Perry, agent of the S. V. R. R., Kingston, Ohio. Mr. and 
Mrs. Russell are members of the Society of Orthodox Friends, of which he is an 
Elder. Politically Mr. Russell is a Republican. His grandfather, Timothy 
Russel1, was a native of Nantucket, where he was engaged on a whaling vessel 
in his young days. He subsequently removed to North Carolina, where he entered 
land on which was built the noted Friends meeting-house, New Garden, that was 
used as a hospital in the Revolutionary and late civil wars. Mr. Russell's 
father was born in North Carolina, Aug. 19, 1782, moved to Richmond in 1813, 
and died June 2, 1841. His mother was born May 5, 1789, and died Apri118, 
1833. They had a family of seven children, three of whom are living---Josiah, 
James J., and Sina, wife of John Whitson. After his mother's death his father 
married Susanna Jones, who was born Oct. 2, 1799. To them were born three 
children; two are living---Mary, wife of Isaac Hawkins, of Morgan County, 
Ind.; and Calvin W., of Kansas. Mrs. Russell's father was born Dec. 12, 1799, 
and died Oct. 8, 1871. Her mother was born Nov. 20, 1798, and died Nov. 25, 
1871. Of their nine children seven are living---Samuel, of Troy, Ohio; Joseph, 
of Marion County, Ohio; Rachel; Oliver, of Morrow County, Ohio; Rosanna, wife 
of Mordecai Brooke, of Vernon County, Mo.; Harriet, wife of John Pearson, of 
Miami County, Ohio; Tamar, wife of Perry Dixon, of Isabel County, Mich.

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