Brief Life History of Bertha A.
When Bertha A. Russell was born on 4 June 1868, in Clinton Town, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Nathaniel James Russell, was 37 and her mother, Jemima Clemons, was 34. She married Fancher Earl on 27 March 1887, in Clinton Town, Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in La Prairie, Rock, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Lima, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. She died in 1934, in Rock, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Shopiere Cemetery, Shopiere, Rock, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Bertha Russell in household of Salhand Russell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Bertha Russell, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Bertha A. Russel Earl, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · P.T. Barnum's Circus Established in Wisconsin
P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome was established in Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: of Norman origin, from Old French and Anglo-Norman French r(o)ussel, a diminutive of Old French rous(e) ‘red, reddish’, used either as a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, or as a personal name. Compare Rouse . This Norman name has been established in Ireland since the 12th century. It has been reinforced in Britain and Ireland by Huguenot bearers of the name Roussel, of the same Old French origin.
English: habitational name from any of several places called Rushall (Norfolk, Staffordshire, Wiltshire) or possibly sometimes from Rusthall in Speldhurst (Kent). Rushall in Staffordshire derives from Old English rysc ‘rush, rushes’ + halh ‘nook, corner of land’. Rushall in Norfolk derives from an uncertain first element + Old English halh. Rushall in Wiltshire derives from an Old English personal name Rust (genitive Rustes) + halh. Rusthall in Speldhurst (Kent) probably derives from Old English rust ‘rust, rust color’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’, but with a change in the final element due to influence from Middle English, Old English hall ‘hall, residence’, perhaps referring to a nearby building.
Americanized form of German Rüssel, from a pet form of any of various personal names formed with the element hrōd ‘fame, renown’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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