Birth Notes
1850 Census, Spring Creek, Miami county, Ohio. Benjamin Russell Sr. age 58,
born in South Caroline, with his wife Jemima, age 60, born in Pennsylvania.
They are living next door to Benjamin Russell, age 24 years.
1850 Census, Spring Creek Twp, Miami county, Ohio. Benjamin Russell, age 24,
born in Ohio, working in a stone quarry. Living next door to his father
Benjamin Russell Sr.
OCCUPATION: Collier (coal mining)
Information on parents for David Russell came from "Scottish Coalming
Ancestors" by Lindsay S. Reeks.
BIRTH: Her birth year may possibly have been 1818. Check on that. Another
birthplace for Elizabeth Russell could be Schotts, Linlithgoshire, Scotland.
IMMIGRATION: Elizabeth Russell Archibald left Liverpool, England on the ship,
"William Tapscott" on May 14, 1862. Accompanying her were her children
Elizabeth (age 13), Christina (age 10), Alexander (age 7), and Andrew S. (age
5). The ship arrived in New York on 25 June 1862. The family came to Utah in
1862 with the Horton D. Haight company.