This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Stark Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XKB.2ACE/697 Message Board Post: Melvin Clay Russell, 88, and his wife, Rebecca Jane Stark Russell, 83, an old and well known Moniteau County couple, died Wednesday, January 26, 1938, their deaths occurring only 18 hours apart. Mrs. Russell passed away shortly after 3 o'clock in the morning of their home near the south city limits of California. Mr. Russell was suffering of pneumonia and was removed to the Latham Sanitarium immediately after her death. At 9:15 p.m. he died without knowing that his mate of nearly 60 years had preceded him