Father: Lewis Russell
Mother: Mary Ann Perkins

Spouse: Phoebe or Phebe Alexander - b: 19/Oct/1871 - MO
 d: 8/Mar/1923 - bur: Camargo Cem., Dewey Co., OK
 m: 14/Feb/1887 - Marysville, Marshall Co., KS

Child-1: Dora M. - b: 3/May/1888 - Rice Co., KS
                              d: 13/Aug/1962 - Dewey Co., OK - bur: Camargo Cem.
                             m: James (Jimmie) Charles Hawkins - 6/Mar/1907 - Taloga, Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
          2: Myrtle - b: 30/Jan/1891 - NE
                           d: Jul/1977 - Oakhurst, Tulsa Co., OK - bur: Camargo Cem., Dewey Co., OK
                          m: Arthur Louis Dewolf - 3/Nov/1915 - Taloga, Dewey Co., OK
          3: Stella - b: 12/Nov/1894 - d: 22/Nov/1895
          4: Cora Elzina - b: 20/Dec/1897 - Gentry Co., MO
                                  d: 2/Mar/1981 - Canon City, Fremont Co., CO - bur: Lakeside Cem.
                                 m: Grover E. Roberts - 14/Jul/1915 - Taloga, Dewey Co., OK
          5: Carl F. - b: 13/Jul/1906 - Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
                            d: 28/Jan/1996 - Pasco, Franklin Co., WA
                           m: Opal Sims - 24/Apr/1924

Biographical Details:

Edward Russell, known familiarly as "Ed", and his twin sister, Eliza, were born in September of 1859 in the Kansas Territory and, together with other members of their family, evidently moved variously to and from Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri in the 1860's.  Even so, Ed almost certainly spent his youth in Gentry County, Missouri.  Subsequently, Edward Russell and Phebe Alexander were married on February 14, 1887, by Probate Judge, Cal T. Mann, in the town of Marysville, which is the county seat of Marshall County, Kansas.  (She seems to have spelled her first name variously as either "Phebe" or "Phoebe".)  Moreover, later census records imply that Edward and Phebe Russell were living in Nebraska soon after their marriage, but moved back to Missouri before settling in Dewey County in the Oklahoma Territory shortly before 1900.  Accordingly, they evidently settled in Cleveland Township near the town of Camargo, which is in located in the western part of the county close to the common intersection of the boundaries of Dewey, Ellis, and Roger Mills Counties.  This presumption is further supported by a land patent isssued to Edward Russell in May of 1907, for one hundred and twenty acres in Sections twenty-two and twenty-three of Township Eighteen North of Range Twenty West, which accords with a location slightly more than a mile west of the town.¹  Of course, since this patent was issued under the authority of the Homestead Act of 1862, the Russell family must have lived at this location since 1902 at the latest.  Accordingly, the family appears in the population schedules of  the 1900, 1910, and 1920 US Censuses for Dewey County as resident in Cleveland Township.  Moreover, in the population schedule of the 1900 census, the families of Edward's two younger brothers, Lewis Napoleon and Charles, were evidently also living close by in Cleveland Township, which suggests that these three families migrated to the Oklahoma Territory together.

Phoebe Alexander Russell died in 1923, presumably in Dewey County and was buried in Camargo Cemetery.  Accordingly, in 1930, Edward Russell, a widower, was living in the household of his son, Carl, in Cleveland Township; however, in 1940 he was living with his son-in-law and daughter, Arthur and Myrtle Dewolf, in Delaware County, Oklahoma, which is located at the eastern edge of the state and adjoins McDonald County, Missouri, and Benton County, Arkansas.  Indeed, the Dewolf family had been resident in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, in 1935.  Concomitantly, the obituary of Ed's sister, Delilah Russell Johnson affirms that he was living in Arkansas in 1934.  As a matter of history, the 1930's was the time of the infamous "Dust Bowl", which ruined many farmers on the southern plains.  Accordingly, many of them moved eastward (or, alternatively, to the Far West, i.e., California) which, therfore, accords with the residence of the Dewolf family (and Edward Russell) in either Arkansas or eastern Oklahoma.  Edward Russell died on August 15, 1953, but a definite location remains undetermined; nevertheless, he was buried with his wife in Camargo Cemetery.

1. The United States of America,   Homestead Certificate No. 8736  Application 17568} To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
     WHEREAS, There has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma-----, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May 1862, "To secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of
     Edward Russell------------ has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the South half of the North East quarter of Section twenty-two and the South West quarter of the North West quarter of Section twenty-three in Township eighteen North, of Range twenty West of Indian Meridian in Oklahoma, containing one hundred and twenty acres -- according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the Surveyor General:
     NOW KNOW YE, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said Edward Russell------------ the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Edward Russell------------ and to his heirs and assigns forever.
     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.  GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, the eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-first.   By the President: T. Roosevelt   By F. M. McKean, Secretary.  H. W. Sanford, Recorder of the General Land Office.  (US Homestead Certificate No. 8736; OK Misc., Vol. 600, pg. 218, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC, issued 18 May 1907.  (BLM GLO Records, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx, 2016.))
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Additional Citations:

2. 1900 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma Territory, National Archives, Washington DC:  pg. 15A, (microfilm: roll T623_1337; img. 31).

3. 1910 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC:  pg. 257A, (microfilm: roll T624_1250; img. 1066).

4. 1920 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC:  pg. 36B, (microfilm: roll T625_1462; img. 646).

5. 1930 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC:  pg. 149B, (microfilm: roll T626_1898; img. 859).

6. 1940 US Census Population Schedule for Delaware County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC:  pg. 72B, (microfilm: roll T627_3290; img. 827).

7. Marriage Affadavits, Marshall County, Marysville, KS, Bk. A, pg. 114;  Marriage Licenses, Marshall County, Marysville, KS, Bk. D, pg. 18.

8. Anonymous,"Camargo Cemetery", unpublished. (Dewey County OKGenWeb Archives, 2002.)

9. Camargo Cemetery, Dewey County, Oklahoma (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98089&CScn=Camargo&CScntry=4&, continuously updated).

10. Russell-Perkins Family Record, unpublished MSS.

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11. Marriage Records, Dewey County, Taloga, OK:  Bk. 3, pg. 122.

10. Marriage Records, Dewey County, Taloga, OK:  Bk. 4, pgs. 465 & 493.

12. Lakeside Cemetery, Fremont County, Colorado (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=57381&CScn=Lakeside&CScntry=4&CSst=7&CScnty=262&, continuously updated).

13. Shirley Campbell Ramos and Patricia Campbell Kratz, Descendants of Phillip and Rebecca Russell, Gregath Publishing Company, P. O. B. 505, Wyandotte, OK, 74370, 1997: pg. 216.

14. Death Master File, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, continuously updated.

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