This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Childress, Childers, Purcell, Pursell, Persell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ABC.2ACE/3741 Message Board Post: I would like to know the location of Purcell Graveyard. It is somewhere in Russell County, probably near Castlewood. Rebecca Jessee (b.1836) who md. John Harvey Childress is buried there according to her death certificate. She was living with her daughter Mary Childress Purcell and her Grandson J. Roy Purcell, when she died. ---------------------------------------------------- 1920 Russell Co., Va.; ED 74; Cleveland Series: T625 Roll: 1913 Page: 103; sheet 7B; lines 92-99 Enumerated 9-10 Jan 1920, visit 127,131 Persell J. R. [Roy?] Head 37 Farmer Jonnie? D. Wife 29 Mary Ciller Dau 4 Frances E. Dau 1-7/12 M. L. Mother 63 Mable Sister 38 Maude Sister 36 Rebecca Childress GrandMother 83 [There are 4 generations in this household] ------------------------------------------------------------