The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
RUSSELL, John Wesley and WOLFE, Martha Jane Family
m. 14 Dec 1877
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RUSSELL, John Wesley
Birth 31 Aug 1855 Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, USA 
Death 21 Jan 1947 Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA Burial Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville, Cass, Missouri, USA Marriage 14 Dec 1877 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Rogersville, Hawkins, Tennessee, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Father RUSSELL, Dr. James Sr. | F1695 Group Sheet Mother STUBBLEFIELD, Alice M. | F1695 Group Sheet
Female
WOLFE, Martha Jane
Birth 12 Dec 1863 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA Death 16 Dec 1942 Overland Park, Johnson, Kansas, USA Burial Olathe Memorial Cemetery, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA Father WOLFE, Woodson Taylor | F1721 Group Sheet Mother MILLS, Katherine | F1721 Group Sheet
Male
RUSSELL, Frank
Birth 9 Dec 1878 Tennessee, USA Death 22 Jul 1880 Cass County, Missouri, USA Burial Raymore Cemetery, Raymore, Cass, Missouri, USA
Female
+ RUSSELL, Lilla
Birth 3 Jun 1880 Missouri, USA Death 28 Dec 1962 Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA Burial Paola Cemetery, Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA Spouse BRYAN, Louis Clifford | F1668 Marriage Feb 1902 Spouse REED, William A. | F1709 Marriage Abt 1923 Osawatomie, Miami, Kansas, USA Spouse BENDER, Martin A. | F1667 Marriage Aft 1940
Male
+ RUSSELL, Claude
Birth 22 Jan 1882 Harrisonville, Cass, Missouri, USA Death 1 Mar 1974 Burial Lowry City Cemetery, Lowry City, St. Clair, Missouri, USA Spouse —?—, Bertha Lucille | F1672 Marriage Spouse KRETSINGER, Grace Charlotte | F1669 Marriage Feb 1910 Spouse CHAPPELL, Bertha May | F1670 Marriage 5 Aug 1958 Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, USA Spouse —?—, Savilla | F1671 Marriage Aft 1964
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+ RUSSELL, Walter Scott
Birth 14 Feb 1884 Cass County, Missouri, USA Death 15 Dec 1945 Walter Scott & Ella Russell Residence, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA Burial 17 Dec 1945 Olathe Memorial Cemetery, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA Spouse EBERHARDT, Ella Loretta | F8 Marriage 23 Feb 1916 Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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+ RUSSELL, Bert J. Sr.
Birth 11 Apr 1886 Harrisonville, Cass, Missouri, USA Death 5 Sep 1954 Burial Olathe Memorial Cemetery, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA Spouse JACKSON, Elva Lavena | F1673 Marriage Abt 1905 Spouse —?—, Mary | F1674 Marriage Bef 1935
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+ RUSSELL, Fred R.
Birth 13 Feb 1888 Missouri, USA Death 12 Mar 1963 North Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, USA Burial New Hope Cemetery, Liberty, Clay, Missouri, USA Spouse HALE, Frances | F1675 Marriage 1 Jun 1917 Douglas County, Kansas, USA Spouse PERRY, Marguerite J. | F1676 Marriage 9 Sep 1924 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
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RUSSELL, Guy
Birth 2 Feb 1890 Harrisonville, Cass, Missouri, USA Death 10 Sep 1962 Burial Holton Cemetery, Holton, Jackson, Kansas, USA Spouse —?—, Birdie | F1678 Marriage Spouse —?—, Ruth | F1679 Marriage Spouse LEWIS, Nellie | F1677 Marriage 1915
Female
RUSSELL, Katherine D.
Birth 25 Aug 1891 Missouri, USA Death 11 Dec 1987 Burial 11 Dec 1987 Olathe Memorial Cemetery, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA
Female
+ RUSSELL, Mabel Nellie
Birth 1 May 1892 Cass County, Missouri, USA Death 2 Apr 1938 Bonita, Johnson, Kansas, USA Burial 4 Apr 1938 Olathe Memorial Cemetery, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA Spouse BRECHEISEN, William Christopher | F1680 Marriage 1 May 1917 Douglas County, Kansas, USA
Female
RUSSELL, Myrtle Lee
Birth 2 Apr 1895 Missouri, USA Death 3 Mar 1972 Burial Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler, Bates, Missouri, USA Spouse OTT, Charles W. | F1681 Marriage Between 1917 and 1925
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+ RUSSELL, Ernest Dewey
Birth 23 Jan 1898 Missouri, USA Death 16 Aug 1971 Burial Greenwood Cemetery, Bolivar, Polk, Missouri, USA Spouse DE GROOT, Fern | F1682 Marriage 23 Feb 1921 Jackson County, Missouri, USA Spouse —?—, Blanche | F1683 Marriage Aft 1958
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+ RUSSELL, Ray R.
Birth 25 Sep 1900 Kansas, USA Death 25 Oct 1986 Burial 28 Oct 1986 Beagle Cemetery, Beagle, Miami, Kansas, USA Spouse BELL, Iva Estelle | F1684 Marriage 25 Apr 1929 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
Female
+ RUSSELL, Grace
Birth 23 Oct 1904 Kansas, USA Death Yes, date unknown Burial Spouse HENSON, Carl D. Sr. | F1685 Marriage 19 Sep 1928 Jackson County, Missouri, USA
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Notes Family Event:
- "The Russells would get together every Christmas, exchange gifts and have a big dinner. They took turns which home and town they would go to. I remember I would have to sleep between two fat aunts in one bed and I did not like that.
"Every summer (around July 4th) they would go fishing together at different lakes. One summer I got burned on my stomach by a firecracker or Roman Candle due to their carelessness. Another fishing trip Virginia and I were in a boat with our Dad [Walter Scott RUSSELL] and two other uncles around midnight when one uncle flipped a fish right in my lap. I nearly fell out of the boat. Last time I went with them.
"One time Uncle Charlie [Charles OTT] and Aunt Myrtle [Myrtle RUSSELL OTT] were visiting us on Cherry Street in Olathe and we were waiting on my Dad to come home from the store so we could go to eat. Uncle Charlie was tired of waiting and went outside and made a hog calling noise that would put your ears out of order. Here came Dad down the street. Said he heard someone calling pigs when he turned the corner on Cherry Street.
"The Russells went on buying trips for their stores in the summer. They would order Christmas things on these trips. I remember going to St. Louis, MO and riding one of the big boats down the Mississippi River. I must have been about 8-10 years old. Had a good time!"
- Lucille Maxine RUSSELL MELTON, June 2001
Residence:
- Moved from Rogersville, TN.
- In total, John Russell was farming 634 acres, almost a whole section of land which is a square mile, and one of the highest acerage of the farms in Eudora Towhship. Based on a plat book, most of the individual acreages owned were 150 acres or smaller. Thus he was most likely farming several small farms owned by others.
The 1915 Kansas state census taken on 1 March lists the following information on his farming:
- Acres sown in the fall of 1914: 230 acres of winter wheat, 100 acres of corn, 45 acres of oates
- Acres under cultivation: 4 of timothy, 30 of alfalfa, 70 of hay, with 60 tons of hay cut in 1914
- Corn on hand - 850 bushels
- Produced in the last 12 months: 200 pounds of butter, $50 worth of poultry and eggs, $500 worth of cattle sold
- Animals on hand: 9 horses, 5 mules, 3 milk cows, 24 cattle, 40 pigs, 1 dog
Family Event:
"Mr. and Mrs. Guy Russell and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Russell and Ella Marie motored to Lawrence Sunday and visited Mr. Russell's parents [John and Martha Russell]. They had to abandon the car on the return trip on account of the mud."
- Osawatomie (Kansas) Graphic, 24 May 1917, p. 6, col. 3.- Included were their 12 living children, 5 daughters-in-law, a son-in-law and 6 grandchildren. At the time, a son, a son-in-law and a grandchild were deceased. John was 62 and Martha was 53.
"The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Russell very pleasently surprised them by coming Sunday with well filled baskets and spent the day with them. Twenty-six were present for the day. In the afternoon A. Lawrence, the photographer of Lawrence came out and took a family group picture. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Bert Russell and family [sons Cecil and Bert, Jr.] of Paola; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Russell and baby [son Roy]; and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Russell of Wellsville; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Russell and baby [daughter Marie] of Osawatomie; Miss Katie Russell of Kansas City [MO]; Mrs. Lillie Bryan and daughters [Helen and Bessie] of Lawrence; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Russell; Myrtle, Ernest, Ray and Grace Russell; and Mr. and Mrs. John Russell, all of this place [community of Belleview in Eudora Township, Douglas County, KS]."
- Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Journal-World, 5 October 1917, p. 6, col. 4.
Included in the picture, but not mentioned in the newspaper article, were Mr. and Mrs. William Brecheisen of Johnson County, KS. Mrs. Brecheisen was John and Martha Russell's daughter, Mabel Russell.
- "The Russells would get together every Christmas, exchange gifts and have a big dinner. They took turns which home and town they would go to. I remember I would have to sleep between two fat aunts in one bed and I did not like that.
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Sources - [S1071] Tennessee. Hawkins County., Marriage Records - TN - Hawkins County, 13 Oct 2017, Russell-Wolfe, 1877.
Marriage Record - John W. Russell & Martha Jane Wolfe - [S723] Tennessee., Marriage Records - TN - 1780-2002 (Ancestry), (Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com. http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1169 : 2008.), 30 Oct 2015, p 202, Russell-Wolfe, 14 December 1877, accessed 30 October 2015.
Marriage Record - John W. Russell & Martha Wolfe - [S982] Russell, Katherine D., Artifact - John W. Russell Family Document, 30 Jul 2016.
- [S784] Author unknown, Artifact - Russell Family Charts - James Russell & John Wesley Russell, 25 Nov 2015.
Russell Family Charts - James & John Wesley - [S786] Author unknown, Artifact - Wolfe Family Charts - Wood & Catherine Wolfe, 27 Nov 2015.
- [S928] Artifact - Unknown Newspaper Article - Original, 31 Oct 2015, "Death Of John Russell"; Obituary, January 1947.
Obituary - John Wesley Russell - [S774] Missouri, Cass County, Census - US - 1880 - MO - Cass County (Ancestry), (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?htx=List&dbid=6742&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0: National Archives and Records Administration, 1999), 8 Nov 2015, T9, roll 679, Raymore Township, enumeration district (ED) 85, p. 118C, dwelling 101, family 101, John & Martha Russell, accessed 8 November 2015.
Census - MO - Cass County - Raymore Township - John Russell
- [S1071] Tennessee. Hawkins County., Marriage Records - TN - Hawkins County, 13 Oct 2017, Russell-Wolfe, 1877.