Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Russell
Descendants of William Russell
14.Frances Hoggatt3 Russell (Thomas2, William1) was born January 14, 1810 in Buckingham Co., VA, and died August 10, 1844 in Linn Co., MO.She married John Jefferson Flood September 29, 1829 in Richmond, Cumberland Co., VA, son of Noah Flood and Sarah Fuquah.He was born May 27, 1807 in Wilson Co., TN, and died November 05, 1864 in Linn Co., MO.
Notes for John Jefferson Flood:
Note: According to a handwritten account by his granddaughter, Mary Flood Gilliam, John Jefferson Flood was appointed as judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Governor of Missouri during the Civil War. John refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Union and was consequently arrested as a political prisoner and sent to McDowell College in St. Louis, MO as a prisoner of war. McDowell College was transformed into a POW camp for Confederate soldiers and political prisoners. According to Mary Flood Gilliam, John Jefferson Flood was taken outside and executed on November 4, 1864. (Note of Bob Flood)
Children of Frances Russell and John Flood are:
44 | i. | Thomas Henry4 Flood, born January 10, 1835; died Unknown. | ||
45 | ii. | Robert Bolling Flood, born August 07, 1837; died Unknown. | ||
46 | iii. | Martha Ann Strother Flood, born September 10, 1840; died Unknown. | ||
47 | iv. | John Jefferson Flood, Jr., born July 17, 1844; died Unknown. |
24.William Henry3 Hines (Mary Polly2 Russell, William1) was born Abt. 1821 in Cumberland Co., VA, and died Bef. 1870 in Hines, Greenbrier County, W(VA).He married Ann Elizabeth Crane April 04, 1861 in Hines, Greenbrier County, W(VA), daughter of Edward Crane and Martha Dossey.She was born 1843 in Rupert, Greenbrier County, W(VA), and died Aft. 1880 in Hines, Greenbrier County, W(VA).
Child of William Hines and Ann Crane is:
48 | i. | William Lofton4 Hines, born July 1868; died Unknown. |
30.John William3 Russell (Samuel R.2, William1) was born August 05, 1827 in New Canton, Buckingham Co., VA, and died April 05, 1916 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA.He married (1) Harriet Ann Higgins October 18, 1849 in Highland Co., OH.She was born August 14, 1832 in Union Twp., Highland Co., OH, and died July 17, 1859 in Union Twp., Highland Co., OH.He married (2) Margaret Rayburn July 12, 1860 in Highland Co., OH, daughter of W. C. Rayburn.She was born August 01, 1830 in Highland Co., OH, and died September 19, 1896 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA.
Notes for John William Russell:
Jasper County Biography 1878:
Farmer, Secs. 21 and 22; P.O. Newton; born in Buckingham Co., Va., in 1827; moved to Highland Co., Ohio, when a child with his parents, thence to Memphis, Tenn., in 1860, and to this County in 1861. He married Margaret Rayburn in 1860; she was born in Highland Co., Ohio, in 1830. Their children are Samuel R., Eliza J., George W., Thomas G., Charles A. and Julia M. Mr. Russell had three children by a former marriage--Mary E., James M.,John W. They are members of the Methodist Church at Hixon Grove; he is a Democrat. He was Township Trustee three terms; School Director several terms, two of which he was President of the Board; he owns 120 acres of land, valued at $35 per acre.
More About John William Russell:
Burial: April 1916, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot #17)
Located: 1861, Jasper Co., IA
Politics: Democrat
Property: 1878, 120 acres @ $35 per acre
Religion: Methodist
More About Harriet Ann Higgins:
Burial: 1859, Dunn's Chapel, Union Twp., Highland Co., OH
Notes for Margaret Rayburn:
I am still searching for the parents and siblings of Margaret Rayburn. Unfortunately there was a courthouse fire in Highland County in the late 1800's, and many records were destroyed. Addendum: I have found a family of Rayburns in Newton. The members of this family are from Highland County, Ohio and are of the correct ages to be family members of Margaret. I have assigned them as the father and siblings of Margaret. However, they could just as well be cousins. It seems inconceivable that a Rayburn family could move from Margaret and John Russell's county in Ohio at the same time as they and not be related. More research is necessary. -DR 06/03
Russell, Maggie:
We are called upon this week to record the death of Mrs. J. W. Russell. Aunt Maggie, as she was familiarly known, has been a constant sufferer for several months with dropsy of the heart. It has been apparent for a long time that death would soon claim her as its victim, but she was ready when the Lord called her. As her children, husband and sister gathered around her bedside, she asked them to sing the following songs: “Nearer My God to Thee,” “Jesus Lover of my Soul,” and ”I am Sweeping Through the Gates.” After they had finished the singing, in the inaudible tones, which her shortened breath only allowed her to talk, she gave them her blessing – not forgetting the brother and sister in their far western homes – and sweet assurance that she was washed in Jesus’ blood.
At 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, September 19th, her spirit took its flight and Aunt Maggie was gone; not dead but sleeping the peaceful sleep of joy and rest after long suffering. She was a kind, devoted mother and grandmother and ever ready to minister to the wants of the suffering. Those who knew her best knew her only to respect and love her. Many sad regrets will be given by those who knew her so well; but when we recall those beautiful smiles of love, the assurance in her God, the consolation will come that she is resting at Jesus’ feet.
She will be missed in her home, in her church and in her neighborhood. The funeral occurred on Sunday the 20th, at 3 p. m. at Hixon Grove Church, Rev. Rice of Newton preaching the funeral sermon, which was a most fitting one for the occasion. The songs that she asked for were sung by the church choir, with Mrs. Cora Chambers as organist. The services consisted of the three songs, reading of the 91st Psalm and the text being the 7th chapter, 2nd verse of Ecclesiastes. The body was taken to our beautiful cemetery and amid a bower of flowers; it was lowered to its last resting place beside her daughter, Julia, who preceded her to that better land about four years ago. The closing song at the cemetery was “We’ll Never Say Good Bye in Heaven.” ~ The Newton Record, Friday, September 25, 1896, Page 5 Column 4 – Murphy
More About Margaret Rayburn:
Burial: September 1896, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot #17)
Cause of Death: Dropsy of the heart
Children of John Russell and Harriet Higgins are:
49 | i. | Mary Elizabeth4 Russell, born June 04, 1851 in Highland Co., OH; died June 14, 1935 in Jasper Co., IA.She married Harley E. Ash Abt. 1875 in Jasper Co., IA; born February 07, 1856 in Lyman, Grafton Co., NH; died 1909 in Absarokee, MT. |
More About Mary Elizabeth Russell: Burial: June 1935, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot 29) Census: 1880, Living with Benjamin James Russell, Newton Occupation: 1880, Dress Maker in Ben. James Russell's Dry Goods Store |
Notes for Harley E. Ash: This Harley Ash is the only person by that name in the U.S. in 1880. |
+ | 50 | ii. | James Murphy Russell, born January 07, 1853 in Highland Co., OH; died April 06, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas. | |
51 | iii. | William Garnet Russell, born October 07, 1854 in Highland Co., OH; died December 02, 1855 in Union Twp., Highland Co., OH. |
More About William Garnet Russell: Burial: December 1855, Dunn's Chapel, Union Twp., Highland Co., OH Cause of Death: Died in infancy |
+ | 52 | iv. | John Windsor Russell, born March 20, 1856 in Highland Co., OH; died Unknown. | |
53 | v. | Harriett Ann Russell, born May 14, 1858 in Highland Co., OH; died June 27, 1861 in Newton, Jasper Co., IA. |
More About Harriett Ann Russell: Burial: 1861, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot #17) Cause of Death: Diptheria Note of Interest: 1861, First burial in Slagel Cemetery |
Children of John Russell and Margaret Rayburn are:
+ | 54 | i. | Samuel Rayburn4 Russell, born March 31, 1862 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died July 05, 1919 in Buchanan, Stutsman Co., ND. | |
55 | ii. | Eliza Jane Russell, born April 14, 1864 in Jasper Co., IA; died July 12, 1921 in Chicago, IL. |
More About Eliza Jane Russell: Burial: July 1921, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot #17) Cause of Death: Mitral Insufficiency Individual Note: Spinster (never married) |
+ | 56 | iii. | George Washington Russell, born December 30, 1865 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died September 21, 1948 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., IA. | |
+ | 57 | iv. | Thomas Greene Russell, born December 17, 1867 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died August 21, 1957 in Newton, Jasper Co., IA. | |
+ | 58 | v. | Charles Arthur Russell, born November 12, 1869 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died September 28, 1939 in Brooklyn, Poweshiek Co., IA. | |
59 | vi. | Julia Margaret Russell, born December 06, 1871 in Jasper Co., IA; died June 11, 1892 in Newton, Jasper Co., IA. |
More About Julia Margaret Russell: Burial: 1892, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (Lot #17) Note of Interest: Never married |
More About Ann Eliza Russell:
Burial: February 1914, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #1)
Notes for John Wildman Murphy:
Biography 1894:
Farmer, Sec 8; P.O. Newton; born in Highland Co., OH, in 1825; located his land in this Co.,. in 1856, and moved here in 1857. He married Miss Ann Eliza Russell in 1847; she was born in Buckingham Co., Va., in 1830; their children are Laura A., John W., Cyntha P., Zillah J., Hamer E. and Bower T.They are members of the M. E. Church, and Greenback in politics. Mr. Murphy has been Justice of the Peace two years, and School Director from 1858 to 1876, and President of the Board several terms. Owns 320 acres, valued at $40 per acre. He is Past Master of Subordinate Grange of Buena Vista Twp., 544; has been Deputy Master of State Grange P. H., four years, and Lecturer of Iowa State Grange P. of H., and a member of Masonic Order twenty-eight years; High Priest of Gebel Chapter two years.
Biography 1912:
Everybody in Jasper Co.,. knew J. W. Murphy. Tall and rugged as an oak, with kindly face and great booming voice, Mr. Murphy was as unique a specimen of sturdy American manhood as the great State of Iowa affords. The subject of this review was united in marriage, September 19, 1847, to Ann Eliza Russell, daughter of Samuel and Mary P. Russell. She was a native of Virginia, born in Buckingham Co., February 21, 1830. They were married at what is now Russell Station in Highland Co., OH.
Mr. Murphy was, as he put it, three-eighths Irish, one-eighth Highland Scotch and four-eighths English. His mother's people were Quakers clear back from the beginning of that religion. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church after she was married. Mrs. Murphy's father died in Jasper Co.,. in 1876, while visiting here with his children. Her mother was born in 1809 and died in 1897. Mrs. Murphy was one of seven children, but four of whom are now living, namely: John W. Russell, living in Newton; Samuel G., living in Newton; and Mary J., wife of Caleb Bennett, living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. One brother, the youngest, Robert H., served in the War of the Rebellion. He enlisted in CA and died in a hospital in San Francisco from sickness contracted during the war, soon after being discharged .
To Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were born eight children: Laura Alice, born June 12, 1854, wife of John Y. Swigart, now living in Mexico; John W., born May 16, 1857, a Presbyterian minister at American Fort, Utah, married Mertie Sterns, and this couple have one child, a girl; Cynthia P., born October 11, 1859, wife of Alec Woods, lives in Jasper Co., and they have four boys; Zella J., born November 23, 1862, married Jefferson Miller, died March 17, 1888, in NE, left three children, two boys and a girl; Zilla, Mrs. James Warren, died on the Kansas and NE line and is buried in NE; Clement Seymour, born July 14, 1864, died in infancy; Hamer Elsworth, born August 29, 1866, married Mary Atwood, now lives in Newton, a graduate of chiropractic healing, has one child, a boy; Roswell Trimble, born May 27, 1869, died in infancy; Bower Thrap, born October 20, 1870, married Edith Blackwood, lives on a farm in Jasper Co., IA. They have five children, three boys and two girls.
On October 17, 1857, Mr. Murphy with his wife and family, consisting at that time of two children, removed from Ohio to Jasper Co., Iowa. He and his brother, James, bought three hundred acres of land, paying eight dollars per acre for the same. This land was afterwards divided, and Mr. Murphy afterwards added to his portion until he owned two hundred and ten acres. Probably no other man in Jasper Co.,. took the part in public affairs that Mr. Murphy did. He served as Twp. Clerk, Trustee, Justice of the Peace, Road Supervisor, and was a member of the board of school directors for eighteen years consecutively. In April 1858, when he was elected secretary of the school board, the Township was without a schoolhouse and there were no sub-districts. John C. Scott and Mr. Murphy together evolved the plan of placing a school house in the center of every four adjoining sections where practical, the first one in the Co.,. being the Slagel Schoolhouse, in Hixon's Grove. This plan was afterward followed throughout the Co.,
Mr. Murphy was one of the organizers of the Jasper County Farmers Mutual Association, being its first secretary, which office he held for fifteen years. He was secretary of the IA State Grange six years and four years as traveling lecturer for that organization. Both he and his wife were charter members of the Methodist Protestant Church, which was organized in Hixon's Grove in 1867, Mr. Murphy helped build it and has acted as its secretary and treasurer and was honored by every office in the gift of the Church. On several occasions he was representative of the Iowa conference to the general conference of the United States of that Church; and was the secretary of Iowa state conference of the Church for the past forty years and it was at one of its meetings that he was taken ill and died.
He had been postmaster of Murphy post office since its establishment in 1891. He was the railroad agent of this station, also owned its one store. He was a member of Newton Lodge No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He was made a Mason at Lynchburg, OH, June 24, 1850. He was also a member of the chapter and council of that order. In politics Mr. Murphy had been a Democrat, ("hard money") Greenbacker and Prohibitionist. Later he was a Socialist.
Note:
John Wildman Murphy is the family member who went to San Francisco, CA in about 1895 to track down the remains of his brother-in-law Robert Henry Russell who died there of disease in 1866. He returned with Robert Henry's bones and re-interred them in the Russell family plot with his aged mother looking on.-RDR 10/02
The Town of Murphy (Buena Vista Township)
Kellogg Historical Society - Vol.III - 1983
Permission to reprint granted by Judy Parson on October 25, 2002.
In the fall of 1857, John W. Murphy and Ann Eliza, his wife, with their two children, came into the area later known as the Murphy neighborhood. By 1866, four of John's brothers and sisters had settled within a mile of John's home. Others came, both before and after - the Russells, Hixons, Slagels, Davises, Adamsons, Fenners, Herrings, Nutts and Livingstons. Here they raised their families and built their lives and the community. The railroad came up from the southeast through the Murphy land in 1880. A siding was installed, stockyards established, and over the years a great variety and quantity of livestock, grain, merchandise, mail, and people were transported to and from the Murphy station. John Murphy put up a store building in late 1890, shortly after the siding went in; and in 1891 both the Murphy store and the Murphy post office began operations. John was postmaster until rural free delivery came on January 16, 1911, and owned and operated the store until his death in August 1911. The store was sold, but continued in profitable operation until 1931, when it was closed because of the lack of police protection.
With the convenience of the post office, the store, and the trains, Murphy became quite a center of activity. From its conception, the store was kept open several nights a week. Buena Vista Grange No. 544, organized August 24, 1872, in John's new barn, rented the store's second-story hall for its meetings before its acquired its own hall in 1909-1910. The Murphy Silver Cornet Band held practices in John's barn, later in the hall over the store; operated until the late 1940's. In the 1920's the Murphy ball team was organized and played in a Jasper County League; its home games were played on a diamond laid out at Murphy. The store building was torn down in 1937. Long after the store was gone the trains went by carrying freight, but the mid thirties brought changing patterns in the sale and shipment of grain and livestock, and the stockyards were closed. By 1950 the route had been abandoned. Now nothing remains of Murphy but the records and the land along with memories. Principal source: Diaries of John W. Murphy and submitted by Velma Murphy Adamson.
More About John Wildman Murphy:
Associations: High Priest of Gebel - Masonic Order
Burial: August 1911, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #1)
Cause of Death: Taken ill at a Methodist conference
Located: October 17, 1857, Jasper Co., IA
Politics: Greenback Party
Property: 1894, 320 acres @ $40 per acre
Religion: Methodist
Vocation: Justice of the Peace
Children of Ann Russell and John Murphy are:
+ | 60 | i. | Laura Ann4 Murphy, born June 12, 1854 in Highland Co., OH; died January 01, 1926 in Gardner Twp., Buffalo Co., NE. | |
+ | 61 | ii. | John Wildman Murphy, Jr., born May 16, 1857 in Highland Co., OH; died April 10, 1947 in Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., CA. | |
+ | 62 | iii. | Cynthia Price Murphy, born October 11, 1859 in Jasper Co., IA; died October 28, 1924 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA. | |
63 | iv. | Zillah J. Murphy, born November 23, 1862 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died March 18, 1888.She married Thomas Jefferson Miller September 15, 1881; born 1862 in Kellogg Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died Unknown. | ||
64 | v. | Clement Seymour Murphy, born July 14, 1864 in Jasper Co., IA; died September 20, 1864 in Jasper Co., IA. |
More About Clement Seymour Murphy: Burial: 1864, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #16) Cause of Death: Died in infancy |
+ | 65 | vi. | Hamer Elsworth Murphy, born August 29, 1866 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died March 06, 1949 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. | |
66 | vii. | Rosswell Trimble Murphy, born May 27, 1869 in Jasper Co., IA; died September 17, 1869 in Jasper Co., IA. |
More About Rosswell Trimble Murphy: Burial: 1869, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #16) Cause of Death: Died in infancy |
67 | viii. | Bower Thrap Murphy, born November 20, 1870 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died June 14, 1923 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA.He married Martha Edith Blackwood March 20, 1901 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; born July 26, 1875 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA; died May 28, 1934 in Buena Vista Twp., Jasper Co., IA. |
More About Bower Thrap Murphy: Burial: June 18, 1923, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #8) Cause of Death: Struck by lightning |
More About Martha Edith Blackwood: Burial: May 30, 1934, Slagel Cemetery, Jasper Co., IA (SW Sec., Lot #8) |