Father: Lewis
Russell
Mother: Mary
Ann Perkins
Spouse: Ida May Stuart - b: 15/Oct/1871 - Gentry Co.,
MO
d: 29/Sep/1939 - Emmett, Gem Co., ID - bur: Riverside
Cem.
m: 20/Sep/1886 - Maysville, DeKalb Co., MO
Child-1: Clarence - b: 10/Aug/1887 - Jackson Twp., Gentry
Co., MO
d: 15/Mar/1972 - Rogers, Benton Co., AR
m: Ella Johnston - 25/Jul/1906 - Taloga, Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
2: Lawrence
- b: 6/May/1889 - Jackson Twp., Gentry Co., MO
d: 27/Nov/1977 - Cashmere, Chelan Co., WA - bur: Cashmere Cem.
m: Mary Belle Heavlin - 8/Dec/1909 - Taloga, Dewey Co., OK
3: Desmond
- b: 17/Feb/1891 - Jackson Twp., Gentry Co., MO
d: 1/Jan/1971 - Emmett, Gem Co., ID - bur: Riverside Cem.
m: Bernice Agnes Benback - 24/Mar/1912 - Camargo, Dewey Co., OK
4: Mary
Ann - b: 25/May/1893 - KS
d: Nov/1981 - Garden Grove, Orange Co., CA
m: Fred Gershom Emond - 29/Apr/1913 - Taloga, Dewey Co., OK
m: Jack Morris - 2/Jul/1944
5: Albert
Omer - b: 4/Nov/1896 - Washington Co., KS
d: 24/Sep/1974 - Beaumont, Riverside Co., CA - bur: Mountain
View Cem.
m: Florence M. Yates - 31/Jul/1916 - Taloga, Dewey Co., OK - div:
~1939
m: Mary Kemp
6: Dora
Christina (Tina) - b: 14/Aug/1899 - Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
d: 30/Mar/1977 - Pendleton, Umatilla Co., OR - bur: Riverside
Cem., Gem Co., ID
m: Thomas John Emond - 26/Jan/1921
7: Ercil
- b: 13/Apr/1904 - Camargo, Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
d: 28/Jun/1991 - Payette, Payette Co., ID - bur: Cloverdale
Memorial Park, Ada Co., ID
m: Doii Mary Klein - 24/Jan/1928 - Woodward, Woodward Co., OK
m: Pearl Berneice Rankin - 16/Nov/1958 - Ada Co., ID
8: Loretta
Grace - b: 30/Jan/1906 - Camargo, Dewey Co., Okla. Terr.
d: 26/Nov/1979 - North Hollywood, Los Angeles Co., CA
m: Campbell Bascomb Slemp III - 31/Dec/1929 - El Dorado, Butler Co.,
KS -
div: ~1933
m: Walter Falch - 14/Feb/1941 - div: ? - m: Homer Schwinger
- div: ?
9: Leah
Guinivere - b: 2/Jul/1908 - Camargo, Dewey Co., OK
d: 6/Sep/1978 - Paradise, Butte Co., CA
m: Harold LeRoy Campbell - 7/May/1930 - San Francisco Co., CA
10: (unnamed daughter)
- b: 19/Dec/1910 - d: 29/Dec/1910
11: Lewis Alexander
- b: 11/Sep/1912 - Camargo, Dewey Co., OK
d: 23/Jun/1984 - Emmett, Gem Co., ID - bur: Riverside Cem.
m: Hazel Irene Kreisel - 12/Mar/1932
Biographical Details:
Reliable family tradition affirms that Lewis Napoleon Russell was born in Gentry County, Missouri, on January, 31, 1863, probably in Jackson Township a few miles north of the present town of King City. His parents were Lewis and Mary Ann Perkins Russell and he was one member of a set of twins, the other who survived only eleven days and was not named. According to later family members, Lewis Napoleon was known familiarly as "Lute" and, evidently, spent his childhood and adolescence in Iowa and Missouri. However, according to one published account, in the spring and summer of 1885, he traveled to western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming in the company of a first cousin, George K. Cogdill, where it seems that the two of them variously worked for a railroad company, camped in the hills, and worked on a cattle ranch.1 Nevertheless, Lute evidently returned to Missouri after only a single season (although his cousin, George, settled near Chadron, Nebraska, and remained in this locality for the rest of his life). Ida May Stuart and Lewis Napoleon Russell were married on September 20, 1886, and afterward almost certainly settled in Gentry County near the village of Island City where their first three sons, Clarence, Lawrence, and Desmond, were born. Even so, civil records indicate that their marriage actually occurred in the town of Maysville, Missouri, the county seat of neighboring DeKalb County. It is not known why they were not married at the bride's home, as was the prevailing custom, but one can surmise that, perhaps, this was because of parental disapproval or opprobrium although this is merely speculation. However, by the time of the birth of their fourth child, Mary, in 1893, Lewis Napoleon and Ida Russell, together with their children, had moved to Washington County, Kansas, since their fourth son (i.e., fifth child), Albert, indicated that he had been born near the town of Haddam when he registered for the draft in June of 1918.2 (Moreover, it is known that they had relatives living in this locality.) This is confirmed by the population schedule of the 1895 Kansas State Census for Washington County, which indicates that the family was then resident in Grant Township. Subsequently, according to oral tradition, in 1898 the Russell family migrated to Dewey County in the Oklahoma Territory, settled on public land, and claimed a homestead. Indeed, this is confirmed by two land patents issued to Lewis N. Russell in 1906 and 1907.3 The first of these is located in Cleveland Township about two and one half miles northwest of Camargo. Concomitantly, it is known that two of Lute's brothers, Ed and Charlie, also moved with their wives and children to Dewey County shortly before 1900. Evidently, all three families settled in Cleveland Township. Of course, this was the period of the famous land rushes, the first of which opened the territory for settlement on April 22, 1889. A second land run occurred on September 21, 1891 and a third on April 19, 1892. It was during this third land run that the territory of Dewey County (initially called "D" County) was opened. However, it does not appear that the extended Russell family participated in any of the land rushes, but came to the territory a few years later. (Land runs continued in Oklahoma into the twentieth century, but none of these included any territory within Dewey County.) Perhaps, as with earlier settlement of the American frontier, the extended Russell family was attracted by favorable (and, perhaps, fanciful) accounts of earlier settlers. In contrast, Lute's second patent was located in Clark Township, some six or seven miles south southeast of the town of Leedey and, thus, more than twelve miles south of Camargo. It is not clear why Lute would have patented two parcels that were so widely separated. Indeed, this would have been problematical since the Homestead Act required at least five years of occupation before a claimant could "prove up" and obtain clear title. Of course, one may suppose that one of Lute's older sons could have occupied the second parcel, but this remains unconfirmed. Even so, his oldest son, Clarence, was issued a patent of his own for a parcel in Cleveland Township in 1914.4Source Notes and Citations:According to census records, it would seem that the family of Lewis Napoleon Russell remained in Dewey County until after 1920, but in 1923 they moved to Butler County, Kansas, and settled near the town of Cassoday in Sycamore Township, which is the furthest northeastern township of the county.5 (Butler County is located immediately to the east of the city of Wichita and the town of El Dorado is the county seat.) This assertion is further supported by the population schedule of the 1930 US Census for Butler County in which the households of Lewis and Ida Russell, Clarence and Ella Russell, Thomas and Dorothy (Dora) Emond, and Ercil and Doii Russell all appear. Alternatively, the History of Daviess and Gentry Counties asserts in a short biography of Ida's father that at the time of its publication in 1922, Lewis and Ida Stewart Russell lived in Idaho, which would seem to imply that they moved from Oklahoma to Idaho for a short time and then returned to Kansas. In any case, it appears that they remained in Kansas no more than nine or ten years and moved to Idaho permanently in the early 1930's. This presumption is supported by the obituary of Delilah Russell Johnson, published in 1934, which clearly indicates that her brother, Lewis, was then living in or near the town Emmett, Idaho, located in Gem County, and is also in agreement with reliable family tradition as well as various civil records and obituaries concerning the children of Lewis N. and Ida Russell. Concomitantly, circumstantial evidence implies that Lewis and Ida's younger sons, Ercil and Lewis A., moved to Idaho either with their parents or at very nearly to the same time. Two of their older sons, Lawrence and Desmond, apparently remained behind in Kansas but later moved to Idaho with their families in or about the year 1940. In addition, it is known that Lewis and Ida's daughters, Mary and Dora, and their husbands, Fred and Thomas Emond, had relocated to Idaho by 1940, but exactly when they arrived is not definitively known. (It is, perhaps, likely that the Thomas Emond family also left Kansas about 1932 along with her parents and brothers, since, they were all living in Butler County in the early 1930's.) Furthermore, it is known that their youngest daughter, Leah, had left Kansas for California in May of 1930.6 Similarly, two of Lewis and Ida's other children, Albert and Loretta, apparently settled in California before World War II, but no exact chronology has yet been determined.7 Therefore, with the exception of Clarence, who evidently remained in Kansas (or one of the surrounding states), all of the family of Lewis N. and Ida Russell moved to California or the Pacific Northwest. Within the context of the time, it is not surprising that most of the extended Russell family left Kansas since this was during the Great Depression and the period of the "Dust Bowl" on the Great Plains. Indeed, they were not alone and during the decade of the 1930's a great many people migrated either alone or with their families, from the Plains states to the West Coast. (Indeed, the hardships and privations associated with this "great migration" have entered modern literary folklore.) Ida May Stuart Russell died at home in Emmett in 1939.8 Lewis Napoleon Russell survived her death almost eighteen years and was living alone in the town of Emmett in 1940 (although his name was unaccountably recorded in the population schedule as "Luther"). Lewis Napoleon Russell died in Idaho on June 17, 1957. He was an active member of the Jehovah's Witnesses until the end of his life as were several of his children.
1. Grant L. Shumway, History of Western Nebraska and Its People - Vol. III, Western Publishing & Engraving Co., Lincoln, NE, 1921: pgs. 697-8. Exerpted from a short biographical sketch of George K. Cogdill:
"... he (George Cogdill) returned to Missouri and in the next spring (1885) in company with a cousin by the name of Lute Russell, came back to Dawes county. Chadron, at that time, was only a small village, mostly tents, so the boys, hunting adventures as much as work, walked sixty miles west to Harrison, Sioux county, Nebraska, which at this early date consisted of one tent about twelve by fourteen feet, occupied by a thrifty merchant with a small stock of groceries and a large stock of forty rod whiskey. They hired out there to the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company to cut ties and were furnished with blankets and a grub stake and went into the hills nearby, built a shelter of poles and pine boughs, but life was too short for the boys to stay in this lonely place and still having a few dollars, they walked west thirty miles to Lusk, (then called Silver Cliff) Wyoming, stayed at Lusk one week, then walked back east fourteen miles and went to work at the Node (Flying E) Cow Ranch". (Sandy Smith (tr), NEGenWeb Project Resource Center, On-Line Library,
www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/hwnep/voliii/hwnp697.htm, 2003)
back to bio.2. There seems to be some uncertainty as to Albert's middle name, which is given by family researchers Shirley Ramos and Pat Kratz as "Omer". Indeed, notwithstanding the somewhat unusual nature of the name, this is supported by census records of 1900, 1910, and 1920 in which his middle initial was invariably given as "O." Nevertheless, when Albert Russell registered for the draft during World War I, he signed his middle name as "Homer", which is a more conventional alternative. Within this context, one might suppose that this confusion derives from colloquial pronunciation, but this can be no more than a conjecture. (unpublished notes)
back to bio.3a. The United States of America, Homestead Certificate No. 10184 Application 15934} TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Wheras, there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a CERTIFICATE of the Register of the Land Office at Kingfisher, 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 Lewis N. Russell has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law, for the North West quarter of Section fifteen in Township eighteen North of Range twenty West of Indian Meridian in Oklahoma, containing one hundred and sixty 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 Lewis N. Russell the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Lewis N. 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 second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth By the President: T. Roosevelt By F. M. McKean Sec'y. C. H. Bush, Recorder of the General Land Office. (US Homestead Certificate No. 10184; OK, Vol. 171, pg. 307, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC, issued 2 Feb 1906. (BLM GLO Records, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx, 2016.))b. The United States of America, Homestead Certificate No. 8271 Application 20779} TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Wheras, 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 Lewis N. Russell has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law, for the East half of the North East quarter and the North East quarter of the South East quarter of Section twenty-nine in Township sixteen North of Range nineteen 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 Lewis N. Russell the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Lewis N. 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 eleventh day of April, 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 Sec'y. H. W. Sanford, Recorder of the General Land Office. (US Homestead Certificate No. 8271; OK, Vol. 187, pg. 286, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC, issued 11 Apr 1907. (BLM GLO Records, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx, 2016.))
back to bio.4. The United States of America, Guthrie 03246. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma, has been deposited in the General Land Office, whereby it appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain" and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of
Clarence Russell has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the Lot four and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section five in Township eighteen north of Range twenty west of the Indian Meridian, Oklahoma, containing eighty and thirty-hundreths acres,
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of 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 claimant the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said claimant and to the heirs and assigns of the said claimant forever.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Woodrow Wilson, 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 ELEVENTH day of MARCH in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and FOURTEEN and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and THIRTY-EIGHTH. By the President: Woodrow Wilson, By M. P. LeRoy, Secretary. L. Q. C. Lamar, Recorder of the General Land Office
RECORD OF PATENTS: Patent Number 391581 (US Land Patent Certificate No. 03246; OK, Serial No. 391581, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC, issued 11 Mar 1914. (BLM GLO Records, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx, 2016.))
back to bio.5. The following obituaries of three of the sons of Lewis Napoleon and Ida May Russell allow a more exact chronology of the family's migrations to be determined. First of all, the obituary of Desmond Russell establishes that the family moved to the Oklahoma Territory in 1898. This is also in close accord with established birth dates and census records. Second, the obituary of Ercil Russell implies that the family moved from Oklahoma to Butler County, Kansas, in or near Cassoday in 1923. This is corroborated by the 1930 census which shows both the households of Lewis N. Russell and Ercil Russell resident in Sycamore Township, which, indeed, includes the town of Cassoday. Third, it is stated that Ercil Russell and his family moved to Idaho in February of 1932 and settled on a farm near New Plymouth. It is very likely that Lewis N. and Ida Russell moved at the same time, but this is not explicitly stated.
a. "CASHMERE-Lawrence Russell, 88, resident of Cashmere for the past seven years, died at his home on Sunday.
Born May 6, 1889, in King City, Mo., he was raised there and on Dec. 8, 1909, he married Mary Heavlin at Taloga, Okla. They lived there until 1918.
Mr. Russell worked in the oil fields in Kansas for 22 years and then moved to Idaho where he farmed until 1957. They moved to Washington and to East Wenatchee in 1964 and to Cashmere in 1970.
He was a member of Jehovah's Witness.
Survivors include two sons Wallace Russell, Wichita, Kans., and Leo D. Russell, Mattituck, N. Y.; two daughters Ilene Bloom, Apple City, Calif. and Wanda Kelmis, Cashmere; three sisters Leah Campbell and Loretta Swinger, both of San Francisco, Calif. and Mary Morris, Los Angeles, Calif.; two brothers Ercil Russell, Boise, Idaho, and Lewis Russell, Emmett, Idaho; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1971 and by a son Melvin, in 1955." (obituary: Newspaper unknown, Cashmere, Chelan Co., WA; cited by Ramos and Kratz)b. "Desmond Russell ... Emmett - Services for Desmond Russell, 79, Emmett, who died Friday morning at an Emmett hospital will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at Beatty Chapel by Brother Vernon Kilbourn and Gene Curtis of the Emmett Jehovah's Witnesses Church. Interment will follows at Emmett.
Mr. Russell was born Feb. 17, 1891 in Island City, Mo. He moved with his parents to Kansas. In 1898 he moved to Oklahoma. he married Berniece Benback, March 24, 1912 at Vassar, Okla. Following their marriage they moved to Goff, Kans., where he worked in the oilfields until moving to New Plymouth in July of 1940. They moved to Emmett in 1951 where he farmed and worked as a carpenter.
He was a member of the Emmett Jehovah's Witnesses Church.
Survivors include his wife of Emmett: two daughters, Mrs. Marie Frane of Norwalk, Calif. and Mrs. Florence Myers of Portland: five brothers, Clarence of Rogers, Ark., Lawrence of Cashmere, Wash., Albert of Cherry Valley, Calif., Ercil of Boise, and Lewis of Emmett: four sisters, Mrs. Mary Morris and Mrs. Loretta Swinger, both of Los Angeles, Mrs. Tena Emond, Emmett and Mrs. Leah Campbell of Paradise, Calif.: two grandchildren and two great grandchildren." (obituary: Newspaper unknown, Emmett, Gem Co., ID; cited by Ramos and Kratz)
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c. "Payette, Ercil Russell, 87, of Payette, died Friday Jun 28, 1991, in a Payette nursing home.... Mr. Russell was born April 13, 1904, on a homestead near Camargo, Okla., a son of L. N. and Ida Stuart Russell. He was the sixth of 11 children, and the last one to survive. In 1923, he moved with his family to Cassoday, Kan. He married Doii Klein on Jan 24, 1928, in Oklahoma and they made their home near Cassoday, Kan., where their daughter Imogene was born.
In February of 1932, they moved to Idaho, settling in New Plymouth. They made their home on a farm on the Emmett bench, where their son Alfred, was born. In 1941, they purchased a farm near New Plymouth, living there until 1950, at which time they moved to Boise. His wife, Doii, passed away 14 Dec 1954.
While in the Boise area, he had an orchard on Pierce Park Lane and was also in business with his brother L. A. Russell, trucking fruit produce. He married Pearl Rankin on Nov. 16, 1958. She passed away in 1962. He retired in 1978 and moved to a small farm near Fruitland, where he lived until 1988. He then moved to Payette. In 1990, he moved into a retirement center and to Casa Loma in May of 1991.
He was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Payette.
Ercil will be remembered by his family and friends as a fabulous storyteller. He spent his life working the soil, and loved work horses and farming. He especially loved growing fruit, particularly watermelons.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Imogene and Bob Peterson of the Hyline community near Ontario, Ore.; a son, Alfred Russell of Boise; several grandchildren, Dixie Johnston of Eugene, Ore., Kelly Peterson of the Hyline community, Ore., and Kathy Shaver, Shelley Peterson, Jeff Russell, Jennifer Russell, and Al Russell, Jr., all of Boise, four great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Hazel Russell of Emmett and special friends, Ethel Baker of New Plymouth and Argyl Warden of Fruitland." (obituary: Newspaper unknown., ID; cited by Ramos and Kratz)
back to bio.6. "To Wed Tomorrow.... Miss Leah Russell left Wednesday for San Francisco, Calif., where her marriage to Mr. Harold Campbell will take place tomorrow.
Miss Russell has for several months been an assistant in the Wisteria. After graduation from El Dorado High School she taught a term of school in south Butler County, near Augusta.
Mr. Campbell was formerly with the Walnut Valley State Bank of El Dorado." (item: Newspaper unknown, El Dorado, KS, May 6, 1930; cited by Ramos and Kratz)
back to bio.7. "Miss Lauretta (sic - Loretta) Russell became the bride of Mr. C. Bascom Slemp III at 8 o'clock New Year's Eve, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Beattie Smith, 517 North Emporia Street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Robert Lee Stuart, minister of the First Methodist Church, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Miss Leah Russell and Mr. Ames Gill.
Extreme simplicity marked all appointments for the wedding.
Mrs. Slemp, who is a charming and attractive young woman, wore a simply fashioned gown of white taffeta. Since coming to El Dorado four years ago from Fort Morgan, Colo., where she was reared by her aunt, Mrs. Dora Reardon, Mrs. Slemp has made many friends in this community. She was formerly with the Empire Oil & Refining Company and in the law office of Hamilton & Woodward, but more recently has been in the lubricating department of the Skelley Oil Company.
Mr. Slemp, who has been in the sales department of the Skelley Oil Company since September 1928, has made a solid place for himself in the social and business life of El Dorado. Before coming here he attended Augusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, Va., the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Va., and later the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was assistant to the dean of the university. Mr. Slemp was engaged in the oil business in Virginia for a short time before coming to El Dorado. He is the son of R. L. Slemp of Marion, Va.; his grandfather C. Bascom Slemp, was a congressman from the ninth district in Virginia and was succeeded in that office by Mr. Slemp's uncle, C. Bascom Slemp, who served as congressman and later as secretary to Calvin Coolidge, when Mr. Coolidge was president of the United States.
Mr. and Mrs. Slemp will be at home in the Scott Apartments at 201 North Star Street after January 10." Ramos and Kratz dispute that Loretta Russell lived with her aunt and assert that she graduated from El Dorado High School in 1926, after which she and her sister, Leah, lived together, presumably in the town of El Dorado. Indeed, she was living with her parents in Oklahoma in 1920; hence, one may suppose that she could have moved to Colorado before her family moved to Kansas and, as indicated by the newspaper account, came to El Dotado about 1925. In any case, it would seem likely that Loretta became acquainted with C. Bascom Slemp while working at the Skelley Oil Company. Even so, their marriage evidently failed before 1935, since according to the population schedule of 1940 he had remarried and had been living in Arlington County, Virginia, since at least 1935. In contrast, Loretta was reportedly living in San Francisco at the time of her mother's death in 1939. (item: Newspaper unknown, El Dorado, KS, Jan 1930; cited by Ramos and Kratz)
back to bio.8. "MRS. LEWIS N. RUSSELL....Ida Mae Stuart was born October 15, 1870 at Island City, Mo., and died at her home in Emmett September 29th, 1939 following an illness of more than a year.
She was married to Lewis N. Russell September 20, 1886, and to this union was born eleven children, six sons and five daughters.
She is survived by her husband, six sons; Clarence of El Dorado, Kans., Lawrence of Leon, Kans., Desmond of Wellington, Kans., Albert of Los Angeles, Calif., Ercil of Emmett, and Lewis of New Plymouth; four daughters. Mary Emond of Emmett, Christina Emond of Emmett, Loretta of San Francisco, Calif., and Leah Campbell of El Cerrito, Calif. One daughter died in infancy. there are also 26 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and two brothers, John Stewart of Stanberry, Mo., and George Stewart of Union Star, Mo. Also, three sisters, Nancy Oneal of Stanberry, Mo., Mary Francis of Maryville, Mo., and Dora Rairdin of Fort Morgan, Colorado, besides other relatives and a host of friends.... Interment was in the I. O. O. F. section of Riverside Cemetery." (obituary: Newspaper unknown, Emmett, Gem Co., ID; cited by Ramos and Kratz)
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Additional Citations:
9. 1900 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma Territory, National Archives, Washington DC: pgs. 14A-B, (microfilm: roll T623_1337; imgs. 29-30).10. 1910 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC: pg. 255B, (microfilm: roll T624_1250; img. 1063).
11. 1920 US Census Population Schedule for Dewey County, Oklahoma, National Archives, Washington DC: pg. 40B, (microfilm: roll T625_1462; img. 646).
12. 1930 US Census Population Schedule for Butler County, Kansas, National Archives, Washington DC: pg. 89A, (microfilm: roll T626_695; img. 581).
13. 1940 US Census Population Schedule for Gem County, Idaho, National Archives, Washington DC: pg. 55A, (microfilm: roll T627_746; img. 122).
14. 1895 Kansas State Census Population Schedule for Washington County, Kansas State Historical Soc., 6425 SW Sixth Ave., Topeka, KS, 66615: pg. 8, (microfilm: roll 1895_K159; imgs. 469-70).
15. Marriage Records, DeKalb County, Maysville, MO: Bk. E, pg. 311, (Missouri State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO (microfilm: roll 28465; img. 1082)).
16. John C. Leopard and Buel Leopard (Daviess Co.), R. M. McCammon and Mary McCammon Hillman (Gentry Co.), History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, KS, 1922: pg. 667. (Reprint available from the Higginson Book Co., 148 Wash. St., P. O. B. 778, Salem, MA, 01970)
17. Register of Births and Stillbirths, Gentry County, Albany, MO: Bk. 2, pg. 22; No. 1094, (Missouri State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO (microfilm: roll 8987; img. 111)) & Permanent Record of Births, Gentry County, Albany, MO: pg. unk., (Missouri State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO (microfilm: roll 8987; img. 347)).
18. Idaho Death Index: 1911-1950, Idaho State Historical Society Library and Archives, 450 N. Fourth St., Boise, ID, 83702. (IDGenWeb Archives, 2002.)
19. Riverside Cemetery, Gem County, Idaho (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=80457&CScn=Riverside&CScntry=4&CSst=15&CScnty=668&, continuously updated).
20. Russell-Perkins Family Record, unpublished MSS.
21. Shirley Campbell Ramos and Patricia Campbell Kratz, Descendants of Phillip and Rebecca Russell, Gregath Publishing Company, P. O. B. 505, Wyandotte, OK, 74370, 1997: pgs. 217-28.
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22. Marriage Records, Dewey County, Taloga, OK: Bk. 3, pgs. 35 & 458.
23. Marriage Records, Dewey County, Taloga, OK: Bk. 4, pgs. 141, 275, & 581.
24. Marriage Records, Woodward County, Woodward, OK: Bk. 10, pg. 438.
25. Oregon Death Index, Oregon Health Department, Center for Health Statistics, Suite 205, State Office Building, 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland, OR, 97232, continuously updated. (Death Certificate No. 77-04792) (Available online at www.ancestry.com)
26. California Death Index, 1940-1997, Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, P. O. B. 942732, Sacramento, CA, 94234-7320. (Available online at www.ancestry.com)
27. World War I Draft Registration Cards, National Personnel Records Center, National Archives-Southeast Region, Morrow, GA, (microfilm: roll KS-1643726; img. 5308 & roll OK-1851774; imgs. 2620, 2623, & 2625).
28. Mountain View Cemetery, Riverside County, California (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=8185&CScn=Mountain+View&CScntry=4&CSst=6&CScnty=215&, continuously updated).
29. Death Master File, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, continuously updated.