In a message dated 11/17/2001 2:38:07 PM Mountain Standard Time, shirleyscott@juno.com writes: << If you could find just one ancestor this year - who would that be? Share your information on that ancestor with the list. You never know, you just might find him/her and some "cousins" to boot. >> The parents and siblings of my great grandfather, John W. Russell who was born ca. 1831 in KY (per the death certificate)... He m. in Putnam Co. IN in 1862 to Mary Elizabeth Moss, b. 1846 IN. They moved to IL for a brief time, then to Miller Co. MO.. Many of his children lived in Maries Co. He and Elizabeth are buried in the Freedom Cem. in Maries Co. Ellie S. EllieSS@aol.com