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Ancestors of Claudia Belle Russell

Generation No. 2

      2. Rev. Robert Franklin Russell, born September 20, 1859 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died December 22, 1920 in Malvern, Arkansas. He was the son of 4. Garner McConico Russell and 5. Virginia Ann Ryland. He married 3. Martha Adaline Ford March 20, 1879 in Clark County, Arkansas.

      3. Martha Adaline Ford, born June 22, 1859 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died January 25, 1921 in Malvern, Arkansas. She was the daughter of 6. Sterling B. Ford and 7. Martha W. Parker.

Notes for Rev. Robert Franklin Russell:

THE MARRIAGE RECORD OF R. F. RUSSELL AND ADALINE FORD is recorded in Clark County, Arkansas. The Bond for Marriage License lists R. F. Russell as principal and Garner M. Russell as security. R. F. signed the bond with an X ("his mark"). Bond March 12, 1879, Marriage License March 12, 1879, A ROBERT F. RUSSELL age 4 is listed in the household of Elizabeth Bivens (65, b.TN, $8000 real estate) in the 1860 US Census for Dallas Co., AR, Fair View Township.
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Marriage Certificate March 20,1879, Certificate of Record April 20, 1879 - pg 355 book N. On subsequent census listings he is recorded as literate. He and Adaline Ford were twenty at the time of their marriage.
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Bob Russell or Brother Bob-- became a country Baptist preacher in rural Hot Spring County, Arkansas. He also raised riding horses and bought and sold land. He was an avid hunter, esp fox hunting. He always had expensive hunting dogs. He loved horses and fine saddles. He was said to have had auburn hair (apropos for the name Russell). He was apparently referred to locally as the 'redheaded fox hunting preacher'.

He founded several baptist churches; Caney Church, Midway, and Friendship Missionary Baptist Church(1886). He was pastor of several churches, often at the same time. He had a circuit that he covered by horseback. A goal was to have a Baptist Church within 5 miles of every potential parishioner. The transportation system in rural Arkansas was very primitive and 5 miles was relatively far to travel by horse and buggy

Bro. Bob owned large tracts of land around Hot Spring County and Clark County, Arkansas. The family moved many times.
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My mother, Hallie, remembered the day he died at the Ray home in Malvern. Bro. Bob had been hunting with his favorite dog and after washing his hands had gone upstairs to take a nap before supper. When he didn't come down to eat, my grandmother went upstairs and found him laid back on the bed with his boots still on and with a very serene expression. His wife had been very ill for some time in the house also; she died a few weeks later, but never knew he had gone first. GLM10/96

More About Rev. Robert Franklin Russell:
Buri: 1920, Social Hill Bapt Ch Cem, Hot Spring Co, AR
Died (2): 1920, acute myocardial infarction
Fact 9: 1900, US Census Index: DOB Sept 18, 1857
Fact 10: US Census Indexes: b - Arkansas
Occu: Minister, farmer, land speculator
Reli: Baptist Minister

Notes for Martha Adaline Ford:
Census records suggest Martha Adeline Ford was born in 1855 or 1856, not 1859.

More About Martha Adaline Ford:
Buri: 1921, Social Hill Bapt Ch Cem, Hot Spring Co, AR
Fact 9: 1900, 1900 US Census Index: Martha A., b-June 1855
Fact 10: US Census Indexes: b - Arkansas
Fact 11: 1920, Unable to read or write per US Census
Reli: Baptist

Children of Robert Russell and Martha Ford are:

	1	i.		Claudia Belle Russell, born February 16, 1886 in Midway, AR*+; died August 14, 1967 in Malvern, Arkansas; married George Washington Ray June 02, 1907 in Midway, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas.
		ii.		Sarah Nora Russell, born 1880 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died July 17, 1946 in Hot Spring Co., AR; married Martin Perry in Arkansas; born in Arkansas; died April 24, 1945 in Arkansas.

More About Sarah Nora Russell:
Immi: 1880, US Census Index: Lenore 1/12

More About Martin Perry:
Fact 9: 'Lenore' per US Census Index-1880 age 1/12

iii.

Connie Russell, born December 26, 1883 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died 1951 in Arkansas, prob. Hot Spring Co; married Kathryn Minerva McCowen in Arkansas; born Abt. 1888 in Arkansas, prob. Hot Spring Co.; died 1976 in Arkansas, prob. Hot Spring Co..

More About Connie Russell:
Buri: 1951, Gilchrist Cemetery, Friendship, Hot Spring Co,.AR
Fact 9: December 1883, DOB per US Census Index 1900
Fact 10: No Children
Reli: Baptist

iv.

Robert Edwin Russell, born November 1891 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died 1910.

More About Robert Edwin Russell:
Buri: 1910, Social Hill Bapt Ch Cem, Hot Spring Co, AR
Died (2): 1910, Age 19
Fact 9: Never Married

William Edward Russell, born December 08, 1888 in Donaldson, Hot Spring Co., AR; died 1965 in Malvern, Arkansas; married Florence Janetta Hughes March 12, 1911 in Midway, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas; born September 26, 1895 in Arkansas, prob. Hot Spring Co.; died March 1981 in Benton, Saline Co., Arkansas.

More About William Edward Russell:
Fact 9: December 1888, DOB per US Census Index 1900
Fact 10: called ED

vi.

Adaline Russell, born Abt. August 1894 in Hot Spring Co., AR*; died Abt. 1970 in Malvern, Arkansas; married (1) Newton Ward; married (2) Oscar Marshal.

Notes for Adaline Russell:

I met Aunt Ada for the first time in the early 1960's when she and her second husband Oscar Marshall visited Malvern from out on the west coast where they lived (Oregon??). Later she moved back to Donaldson, Arkansas after his death to be near her family from the first marriage. She had a small home built largely with lumber salvaged from the old Ward home in Donaldson. She was proud of the beautiful knot less heart of pine lumber salvaged from the old house - "as good as the day it was sawed".

I remember her as warm robust country woman who loved to cook. All the relatives and anybody in the neighborhood was always welcome to be drop in and be fed huge delicious country meals. She always had several kinds of cakes and pies in her kitchen. One never left her house without being stuffed!

I was in medical school in Little Rock when she died. I was asked to be a pall bearer in the funeral. I didn't have a pair of nice black shoes, so borrowed some from Unkle Mose Rutherford. It was a real surprise to me that not only did the pall bearers actually carry the coffin, but we had to fill in the grave after the funeral. It was pouring rain and Unkle Mose's shoes got ruined. -- George L. Mayer

More About Adaline Russell:
Buri: Donaldson, AR in Hot Spring County
Reli: Baptist

vii.

Grady Russell, born July 1898 in Caney, Hot Spring Co., AR*; died July 07, 1933 in Arkadelphia, AR; married Grace Hurst Abt. 1913 in Caney, Hot Spring Co., AR; born April 24, 1894 in Enola, Arkansas; died 1974 in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

More About Grady Russell:
Died (2): July 07, 1933, killed by truck on Hwy7-5mi N of Arkadelphia
Fact 9: July 1898, DOB per US Census Index 1900

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