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/oZEBAIB/100.112.128.189.1 Message Board Post: I descend from Seneca Russell (b. 1812) and his son Albert Russell (b. 1843?), who married Celia Fox. Celia Fox was cousin to Elizabeth Moss, who married John W. Russell. I have thus far unsuccessfully tried to tie John W. Russell to my Russells. The Moss and Fox families seem quite entangled, and I believe that it is likely that the Russells were also a part of the tangle. Celia's mother Elizabeth (Moss) Fox and Celia's aunt Delilah (Moss) Scott lived in Appanoose County, Iowa, during the Civil War; and Delilah was buried in Appanoose, perhaps after dying in childbirth. Delilah is buried close to her child Elizabeth Scott in Cooley Cemetery. John Love and David Love, children of Lyman Love and Mary Moss, fled Missouri, came into Appanoose long enough to enlist in local Union forces and then marched back into Missouri in a unit with their Iowa cousins. A child named Elias A. Russell (d. Feb.15, 1875, age 1 y. 10 m. 25) is buried among the Foxes in Cooley Cemetery in Appanoose. I cannot account for Elias Russell in my Russell records. He might be the child of a Russell-Fox-Moss connection that I do not know about. Russell is a very common name. It could be that Albert Russell and John W. Russell were entirely unrelated, but I think that it is more probable that there was some family relationship. J.Mitchell 11mitchell@mchsi.com