This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/mbexec/msg/4317/SRB.2ACE/11824 Message Board Post: He is the son of PRATT and ELIZABETH CLARA. In a letter written by Estella Shrubb in February of 1984 to Mary Anne Mackey-Wisor, she verifies Russell's birthday and states that his mother's name was Elizabeth Clara Pratt. She states; " Dad was bedfast cause he suffered a cerebral Hemorrhage stroke in October of 1955 just three months after my husband died which left him like (Mary Anne) remembered him". My memories of visiting Uncle Russell and Aunt Myrtle were very pleasant. Uncle Russell was bedfast and had a hospital bed by the front window. I always enjoyed sitting on the side of his bed and talking to him.