This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3629.1 Message Board Post: Major William Russell SR. age from the Newspaper accounts of his death notice in 1825 was upward of 60 years of age. one had his age at 63 years born about 1762. this is the only recorded public record on his age. His daughter was 70 years of age born in VA. on the 1850 Alabama Census about the year 1780 Major Russell would have been near 18 years old in 1780. Dicey was born 1784 NC . Major Russell was living on Boons Creek on a 50 acre entry adjoining Captain George Russell for the dau. to be born in two different States and not moved. Richard