This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HMB.2ACE/1206.2.1 Message Board Post: Bev, I do not have any information on earlier Russell's of Polk Co., MO. This family had been in Kansas for awhile. George Russell was born in Cole Co., MO and the family had moved to Miller Co., MO, before some of them moved to Kansas. Barbara