TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO 
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Hugh Russell and wife Ann Webb Russell married in Hagerstown, Md. and
migrated to Tuscarawas Co., Ohio by l820 where they lived in Sandy Township.
Hugh died May 4, l825 and is buried in Sandyville Cemetery. They had just
completed building their house when he died. Ann never remarried but tended
the home and the four children that lived to adulthood. Ann died in l847 and
is buried beside her husband. Children who lived to marry and have families
were Hugh, Jr, Pointon, John and Isaac Russell.

Hugh, Jr. married three times, Catherine Shaffer, Hannah, Sowders, and Sarah
Jane Mc Murray. Children by Catherine were William H.who married Frances
Frelich; Rebecca who married David Cribbs; Malissa who died age five, and
Nathaniel who married Anna Marie Sternberger. By Hannah he had Margaret A.
and Harriet. By wife Sarah Jane, he had Carrie Webb Russell.

Pointon Russell was born in Md in l8l4 and died l89l in Coffey Co., Ks.
Pointon married Elizabeth Steel Smith in Stark Co.,in l842. They had Martin
L. who married Maggie Crawford in Ohio; Anna Russell who married A. Caleb
jones in l865 Tuscarawas, and Catherine Russell. Pointon, wife and children
left Ohio to meet with his brother John Russell in Iowa who was going to
Kansas. Elizabeth became ill, and died enroute to Iowa. Pointon returned to
Tuscarawas and left the two young girls with his brother, Hugh and family.
The l860 and l870 census includes these along with his own family. Martin
and Pointon, John and his wife continue the trip to Kansas arriving there by
the spring of l857. The girls remained in Ohio with Hugh until about l874
when Martin returned to Tuscarawas for his siblings. By then Anna had
married and had a family. Martin returned to Kansas with his sister,
Catherine Russell who married John H. Cayot in l875. Margaret and Carried
Webb Russell, daus. of Hugh Russell,Jr. also accompanied them on the
journey.
Margaret never married; and Carrie married Dan Simmons of Burlington, Coffey
Co.,Ks. Martin returned again to Ohio where he married Maggie Crawford in
l877. Pointon died in l89l in Coffey Co., Ks.

Hugh Russell, Jr. left a will, naming Nathaniel as the executor, Aunt
Charlotte Kelly and her two children, his children, including Carrie,
Margaret, Cribbs children, and Harriet should she regain her sanity, she is
to inherit her share. He death occuried ll June l886 and he is buried
between wives Hannah and Catherine as per his will instructions. This would
be Lower Sandyville Cemetery, and also where his parents are buried.

John Russell born in l82l in Tuscarawas, Ohio attended what school was
available at that time period. He was sent to Oberline College, located in
Oberlin, Ohio to obtain more schooling. He attended l843 to l846, when he
came down with a fever and had to return home. Finally in l852, he returned
to college and in l854 obtained a teaching degree
except for languages. He was also enrolled during l854 and l855. By l855, he
was teaching in Grundy Co., Iowa where he met and married Mary Palmer Strang
who had migrated with her parents and siblings from Erie Co., N. Y. John and
Mary married in l856 in Grundy Co., Iowa and in l857 joined Martin and
Pointon on the trip to Kansas. John and Pointon both purchased land in Avon
Township in Coffey Co., Ks. and returned to farming. John and Mary had nine
children but only three reached adulthood. Mary's Strang family history
is recorded in a diary which she began in the l850's and ended before they
left N. Y. for Iowa. John Russell wrote his biography of his life in
Tuscarawas and the trip to Kansas. He described building a house and
furniture for their new home. When his health failed in the late l890's, the
family left Kansas for Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. Their youngest
child was born in Colo. in l897. By l900 the family is back in Coffey Co.
Prior to his death he had dau. Ellen Russell help him finish the bio. Son
Edwin also kept records and a diary of his trip from Ks to Texas and La and
then back to Texas where he made his home until his death.

Documentations are census for Washington Co., Md.,Tuscarwas Co., Ohio, and
Coffey Co., Ks. Cemetery records for Tuscarwas and Coffey Co., Ks. Marriage
records, biographies, and the diary of Mary Palmer Strang. Letters from
Oberlin College and copy of his degree. DAR records for the Strang family.
Will of Margaret Webb and Hugh Russell, Will of John Russell and obits for
the Kansas Russells families. Tuscarwas land record, Ks. land records,