In your time period I have a John Jay Russell born in DesMoines in 1859 and his sister Mary L born same place in 1857. Father was Oliver born in Indiana in 1833.What I am trying to find is why Oliver took his wife to Iowa about 1856/7 and had 2 kids then came back to Indiana where he enlisted in the Union army. I am speculating some other family members preceeded him to Iowa and wonder if any of your Russells had a Quaker background and were from Ohio or Penns. areas. There were lots of children in these Russell familys and they seem to spread out in the farm lands in Indiana, Ohio, Illinoise and Iowa. PaulD