Brief Life History of Earl Edmund
When Earl Edmund Russell was born on 10 September 1923, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, his father, Ashley Edmund Russell, was 23 and his mother, Vera Evangeline Smith, was 24. He married Lucille Boudreau on 4 January 1945, in Maricopa, Arizona, United States. He lived in Boone, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Oliver Township, Taney, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died in January 1985, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States.
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- Earl E Russell, "United States 1950 Census"
- Earl E Russell, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
- Earl E. Russell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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