Onslow-Newhanover-Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Russell, Daniel Lindsay July 31, 1871
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The Wilmington Morning Star, Tuesday, August 8, 1871 
DIED.

RUSSELL--At his residence in this city, on the 31st of July, Mr. 
Daniel L. Russell, Sr.

Mr. Russell had been for many years a respected and prominent citizen 
of this section of North Carolina.  He was born in the County of 
Onslow in October, 1803, and hence was near sixty eight years of age 
at tht time of his death.  He removed to the County of Brunswick in 
the year 1840, and up to the capture of Wilmington by the Federal 
forces in 1865 continued to reside in that County, where he had 
accumulated a large property.  He frequently represented the County 
of Bruswick in the Legislature of the State, and was for many years a 
leading member of the old Whig Party.  For many years both before and 
after the war he was Chairman of the County Court of Brunswick over 
which he presided with acceptability to all parties, in which 
position he was continued until the abolition of the Court in 1868.  
In 1865 he represented the County of Brunswick in the Constitutional 
Convention convened under the policy of President Johnson.  In 1866 
he was elected by the Legislature of that year one of the Council of 
State, and in that capacity acted as one of the Constitutional 
advisers of the lamented Governor Worth.

Possessed of a strong mind and unexhaustable energy he had commenced 
to recover from the sad calamities of war, which all had alike 
suffered, when he was overtaken by the lingering and distressing 
disease, cancer, which, after a long and painful illness, resulted in 
his death.

Up to the termination of the war he lived upon his fine estate in 
Brunswick, and many there are who remember the warm and generous 
hospitality which was there dispensed.  Another old style North 
Carolina gentleman has passed away, leaving behind him but a few 
representatives of that noble race.

Additional Comments:
This information was taken from microfilm of the Wilmington Morning 
Star.  The article in the paper was creased and the date, of which 
Russell moved to the Brunswick area, appeared, at first glance, to be 
1810, but this would not reconcile with other sources.

According to the Alice Sawyer Cooper manuscript, in the "Southern 
Collection" which is at Wilson Library on the UNC Campus in Chapel 
Hill, Daniel L. and his brother William Jarvis Russell left Onslow 
County for Mississippi about 1820, after the death of their father, 
Thomas in 1815.  Daniel L. returned to the Brunswick area where he 
built his wealth in the naval stores (turpentine distilling, etc.) 
business.  His plantation was called Winnabow.

His first wife, Caroline Elizabeth Sanders, died in November 1845, a 
few months after the birth of their first child, Daniel Lindsay, Jr.  
He remarried in 1847 to Olivia Grist, of Washington, NC.  They had 
three children: Thomas B., Mary Williams, and David S. Russell.  Mary 
Williams Russell, married William James Harriss Bellamy of 
Wilmington.

His first child, Daniel Jr., married Sarah Amanda Sanders, in August 
of 1869 and was a lawyer and judge in the Wilmington area.  "Olivia 
always spoke of how good Dan and 'Manda' were to her."

There is a monument to Daniel Lindsay Russell, Sr. located adjacent 
to the Confederate Monument in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, NC.  
His two wives are also listed on the single monument.  The monument 
lists his birth as Oct. 11, 1803 and death as July 31, 1871.  The 
inscription reads, "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upgright for 
the end of that man is peace.  Thy will be done."

Beside this monument is a separate, small, rectangular stone 
dedicated to David S. Russell, his son.

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