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Melissa,
This is wonderful – although in one respect disappointing. I had hoped the 1850 census would show Lansil’s household populated by a number of girls born between Marilla and Ezra whose marriages are later recorded in Grant Co, WI. It looks as though they were somebody else’s daughters. Any idea whose?
Your information on the Russells was all new to me. But it bears striking similarities to the history of the Edgcombe family. I have checked back and found a number of earlier Russell links, including one to Josiah which may delight you. The key factors are:
John Edgcombe of New Hartford, CT, (full details on Judith Voran’s website; details elsewhere on the Genforum Edgcombe page) had among others two sons:
- Ezra, father of a son, probably named Jonathan, who married a woman named Russell in 1796 at Canton, CT.
- Uriah, 1740-1809, of Canton, CT, who married Amy or Anna Reed and had among others two children:
- Nancy who married Josiah Russell before 1807
- Uriah, with whom I continue.
Uriah, 1781-1861, married Elizabeth Doud (and possibly later Elizabeth Baughman) in CT. They moved c1810 to Preston, Chenango Co., NY; c1818 to Paris, Portage Co., OH; during the early 1820s to Newton, Trumbull Co., OH; a few years later to Braceville, Trumbull Co, OH; and c1831 to Allen Co, OH. I have it reported that Uriah was the first of many people from Trumbull Co to move to Allen Co. The only one of Uriah’s children I have linked to a Russell is Lansil who married Malinda Russell.
Two thoughts arising from all this:
1. I had always thought it likely that Lansil had gone back to Trumbull Co to marry Malinda because she was a “childhood sweetheart” left behind when his father took the family to Allen Co. But your information suggests the link may have been longer standing. Indeed, it looks distinctly possible that Lansil and Malinda were first cousins.
2. It looks very much as though, along with the Doud family and various others, the Edgcombes and Russells formed part of a large kinship-social group moving westward in stages. Uriah appears to have had a slightly more pioneering spirit than the others since he seems to have gone west each time a couple of years ahead of others (such as the Russells). If this is right, Josiah Russell may well have started life in or very near Canton and Hartford in Connecticut.
Best wishes
Alan
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