This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Astor, Howard Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/5762 Message Board Post: Excerpts taken from Houston Chronicle dated August 06, 2006. "(Brooke) Astor also comes from a long-lived lineage. Her mother, Mabel H Howard Russell, died at 88; her father, Maj. Gen. John Henry Russell, died at 74." "A grandfather, Rear Adm. John Henry Russell, born when John Quincy Adams was president, died at 69."