Newhanover-Beaufort-Onslow County NcArchives Obituaries.....Russell, Olivia Grist March 11, 1907
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Wilmington Morning Star -  March 12, 1907
Mrs. Olivia Russell Dead

Good Woman Entered Into Rest Yesterday at Home of Her Daughter.

   Mrs. Olivia Russell, relict of the late Daniel L. Russell, Sr., of 
Brunswick county,died in this city yesterday at 12 o'clock noon.  She was born 
in Washington, N.C., on April 6th, 1826 and was the daughter of Allen Grist, 
Esq., of that town who in his day was one of the most prominent men of his 
section of the State.

   Mrs. Russell lived until after the war in Brunswick county at Winnabow, 
where her family lived in great affluence and there dispensed the most lavish 
hospitality; and many are the friends who will remember the enjoyment of the 
ante-bellum days at her home.

   Mrs. Russell had lived in Wilmington since 1868, where she has ever been 
noted for her piety and many Christian virtues, having been all her life a 
member of the Episcopal church to which she was greatly devoted.

   She is survived by her family consisting of Mrs. w.J.H. Bellamy, of this 
city, and Mr. Thomas B. Russell and Davis S. Russell, of Robeson county, and a 
step son, Ex-Governor D.L. Russell, of Brunswick.  She also leaves two 
sisters, Mrs. Kennedy, of Uniontown, Ala.; Mrs. Margaret Hoyt, of Washington, 
N.C., and a brother, Allen Grist, Esq., of Chattanooga, Tenn. 

 She leaves besides a large number of grandchildren and relatives, prominent 
among the grandsons being Dr. Russell Bellamy and Lindsay Russell, Esq., of 
New York; William J. Bellamy, Esq., John D. Bellamy, Jr. 3d., and Dr. Frank H. 
Russell, of this city.

   Services will be conducted at St. James Episcopal Church at 3:30 P.M. today 
and the remains will be interred in the family burying ground at Oakdale 
cemetery.

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   DIED

   RUSSELL--At 12:10 P.M., March 11th, 1907, OLIVIA GRIST RUSSELL, in the 81st 
year of her age.

   Funeral will take place from St. James Church at 3:30 P.M. today; thence to 
Oakdale cemetery.  Friends and acquaintances respectfully invited to attend.
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Additional Comments:
  Olivia Grist was the daughter of Allen & Mary Ann Grist of Washington, NC.  
She was the second wife of Daniel L. Russell, Sr.  The Olivia Grist marker is 
part of her husband's monument.  The Russell "burying ground" is in the 
Oakdale Cemetery adjacent to the Confederate Memorial. Her marker reads:

Olivia Grist
  Wife of
D.L. Russell
  Born
April 6, 1826
  Died
March 11, 1907

Her children rise up and call her blessed.

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