This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL BUTLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/4104 Message Board Post: Would love to learn more about EMERSON RUSSELL (the older brother of my 2 great grandfather, GEORGE WASHINGTON RUSSELL b. 1809 Carlisle) in order to find his descendants. I would love to compare notes and share research with them on the RUSSELL family. Jacqueline Sleeper Russell ------------------------------------------------- JAMES RUSSELL 111, B. 9 May 1775 Concord, Massachusetts D. Lowell, Massachusetts 5 Jun 1858. M. 27 Aug 1797. Mary Butler B. 1779 D. 1863. Daughter of Joseph and Mary (Kidder) Butler. THE CHILDREN OF JAMES AND MARY ALL BORN IN THE OLD RUSSELL HOUSE IN CARLISLE, MA. 1. William Lambert B. 27 Oct 1799 D. Barre, Ma. 6 May 1899. A centenarian. He went to the Concord Schools, Groton Academy and Harvard College where he graduated in 1826. M. 2 June 1836 Mary Ann Warren B. 1816. Daughter of Calvin and Caroline (Carter) Warren of Hubbardston, Ma. He became a physician in Barre, Ma. He wrote the description of the old Russell house in Carlisle, Ma. 2. Emerson B. 13 Sept 1802 3. Mary Ann B. 3 Oct 1804 4. James Sullivan B. 23 Mar 1807 D. 14 Jan 1903. M. 4 Oct 1842, Elizabeth Chapin Bartlett (1813-1866) daughter of Waitt and Martha G. (Chapin) Bartlett. James studied at Brown University from which he received the honorary degree of A.M. He taught schools in various towns in the state, finally becoming teacher of mathematics in Lowell (Ma.) High School. Continued there for forty-three years, retiring in 1881. He was the person who gave us the only description, in words, that we have of the Rev. Paul Litchfield, first minister of Carlisle. Children of James Sullivan and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Russell: 91) James B. 5 June 1850 D. Lowell, Ma. 8 Jun 1936, aged 86 years, 3 days. Unmarried. (2) Mary Bartlett B. 5 Apr 1846 D. Lowell 25 May 1937. (3) ____________? (Mrs. Hiram J. Potter) Children: Leslie Potter of West Newton, Ma., and Stanley B. Potter of Suncook, New Hampshire. 5. (Hon) George Washington Russell B. 9 Aug 1809 M. (1) 1 Jan 1835 Susan Faulkner (1811-1847) Daughter of Nathaniel Faulkner. M (2) 16 May 1849 Catherine Emily Smith (1828-1861) daughter of Solomon Smith and Catherine Eveleth Faulkner. M (3) Lydia (Baker) Waite (1819- ?) ======================================