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/3987.1 Message Board Post: Following submitted for your consideration; Stumped by ggrandfather William Phillip RUSSELL b. 9Sep1831 in Massachusetts. Place unknown. He married Mary E. She was born Abt. 1836 in NY. Cannot discover place he was born nor who his parents were. This WP RUSSELL died 12Sep1894 in Madison NE. Veteran of Civil War. Was in Ellet's Ram Fleet on the Mississippi River.