When Bertha Alice Newbury was born on 10 November 1873, in Ripley, Chautauqua, New York, United States, her father, John Osterman Newbury, was 23 and her mother, Clara Augusta Palmer, was 20. She married George Richard Russell on 10 September 1891, in Ripley, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Gates, Monroe, New York, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 17, Pinellas, Florida, United States in 1940. She died on 21 January 1951, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Grove Place Cemetery, Chili, Monroe, New York, United States.