Joseph Lytle Russell

Brief Life History of Joseph Lytle

Joseph Lytle Russell was born on 4 July 1813, in Ireland as the son of Thomas Russell and Fanny Ward. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Ann Eliza Birney. He lived in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1880. He died on 17 December 1897, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Lytle Russell
1813–1897
Ann Eliza Birney
1825–1861
Jane Russell
1845–
Frank Russell
1850–
Thomas B. Russell
1850–1855
Charles Taze Russell
1852–1916
Margaret M. Russell
1854–1934
Lucinda Rusell
1857–1858
Joseph Lytle Russell
1859–1860

Sources (11)

  • Russel J L Russel in household of C T Russel, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Lytel Russell - Government record: birth-name: Joseph Lytel Russell
  • Joseph T. Russell, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820

Maine is the 23rd state.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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