Lenawee County MI Archives Obituaries.....Russell, Rev. Jesse Barber June 18, 1832
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Rev. Jesse Barber Russell
 
In Niagara county, N.Y., on June 18, 1832, this servant of God first saw the 
light. He was one of a family of twelve children of Rev. Jesse Russell, a 
minister of the Wesleyan church. There are still remaining three brothers, 
Isaac of Alma, Jacob of Olmstead, and John, of Milton, Mich., the last-named 
being familiarly known as "the father of prohibition," and a minister of our 
church since 1843. The family removed to Michigan when Jesse was six years of 
age, and settled in Lenawee county. Here he grew to manhood and on June 24, 
1856, was married to Miss Margaret J. Ferrel, of Prospect Hill. A family of 
three sons and one daughter was born to them, two of the boys dying in 
childhood. On Sept. 7, 1881 Mrs. Russell passed from the life on earth, her 
decease taking place at Carleton. Bro. Russell was married a second time on 
April 15, 1882 to Miss Mary Graves Hall, of Milan, Mich., to whom were born 
two daughters. She died Oct. 18, 1887 at Deford, Mich.
 
Bros. Russell was received on trial in the Detroit conference at Detroit in 
1861, Bishop E. R. Ames presiding. His appointments were as follows: Mount 
Morris 1861: Dansville, 1862 : Lambertville, 1863 . Bro. Russell was a soldier 
in the Union army, serving part of the time as chaplain in the 23d Michigan 
infantry. At the close of the war he returned to Michigan, and served the 
following charges: Watrousville, two years : Medina, one : Watrousville 
(second term), two : Stony Creek, two: Fairfield, one: Milan, two: Carleton, 
one: St. Ignace, two: Port Sanilac, one: Caseville, two. Here he suffered a 
stroke of paralysis, and the next year supplied for some months at Reese. From 
Reese he went to Tuscola one year, Deford, one, where he took a supernumery 
relation. In 1893 he was stationed at Eames, remaining one year. Then followed 
two years at Carrolton and Zilwaukee, and one year at Sheilds. At the 
conference session of 1897 he asked and received a superannuate relation on 
account of failing health. In November, 1899, he became seriously ill, and 
suffered a third stroke of paralysis, the second having occurred in Reese. 
After spending some weeks at the hospital in Saginaw, he decided to remove to 
the Soldiers' home, near Grand Rapids, where he remained until the end came on 
April 2, 1900.
 
He was buried at Cambridge Junction, Lenawee county. The funeral services were 
conducted by Rev. C. B. Case, of Addison, who spoke words of comfort and cheer 
from the text, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Bro. Russell was an 
earnest, logical and convincing preacher, of whom no word of commendation is 
needed. "His record is on high." "He rests from his labors, and his works do 
follow him."
                                                                               
                                                                               
S. A. Dean

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