Biographical Sketch of RUSSELL's, Johnson County, Missouri
Hazel Hill Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

THE RUSSELLS OF HAZEL HILL TOWNSHIP.

   Coleman, John, Thomas, and Henry Russell are reputable farmers.
Their grandfather was a major in the army of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain.  He resigned his commission, and emigrated to America, A.D.
1795.  Their father, Major Henry Russell, who was born in Rithmelton,
Ireland, was an officer in the United States army, and did gallant
service in the war of 1812.  The bounty land awarded him by the
government he located in Missouri, and afterwards became a resident of
this grand old commonwealth.  Although his four sons are, and have a
right to be, proud of their genealogy, they have sense enough to know
that it amounts to nothing in this republic, where merit alone is
entitled to rank.  These Russell boys are all of them retired merchants.
When they came hither, a quarter of a century ago, they were, to say the
least of it, rich.  Their losses, by reason of the late deplorable
internecine war, were no less than twenty-five thousand dollars;
nevertheless, they annoy no one with loud lamentations.  Whilst they are
no longer rich enough to make them proud, yet they are not poor enough
to feel the pangs of poverty.  The Russells still occupy their
delightful homestead, situated in full view of the city of Warrensburg.
They are generous, hospitable, agreeable gentlemen, exceedingly liberal
in politics, and tolerant in reference to religion.  They always have a
kind word for those in distress, a penny for the poor, and a maladiction
for an enemy.

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