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Message to Russell County Resources and Lookup Volunteers

Russell County needs submissions. If you have specific ties or family connections in the county, please submit your information.


If you have any books or CDs on this county and will volunteer to do lookups, or if you have corrections or possible additions to this page, please let meknow. Just click on the e-mail icon, above. I'm looking for new ideas on how to organize this section of the site.

Biographies: 

I am going to send you a BIO on a "Hometown Boy Makes Good".  Actually, he is a remarkable man.  His father was a great uncle of my husband Leo J. Phelps and a great uncle of Annabelle Winfrey.   Here are his Russell County ties:



 I don't think it's necessary to mention anyones name except for Waldo Phelps, the author.  It doesn't matter who contributed it, unless you need to.
Annabelle contributed it to Kentucky Explorer.
Direct Descendants of Shadrach Phelps
      
 1   Shadrach Phelps b: February 03, 1775 in Albemarle Co., Virginia d: December 24, 1855 in Russell Co., Kentucky.
..  +Celia (Seley) Stapp b: October 29, 1772 in Carolina (per death notice) d: April 29, 1855 in Russell Co., Kentucky. m: December 08, 1796 in Madison Co., Kentucky. (per Ministers returns)
 2   William P. Phelps b: June 27, 1813 in Adair Co. Kentucky d: April 10, 1891 in Russell Co., Kentucky
..  +Martha H . Karnes b: March 30, 1817 in Wytheville, Virginia (Guilford Co. NC. per death notice) d: April 11, 1855 in Russell Co., Kentucky. m: December 28, 1836 in Russell Co., Kentucky. by James King
 3   Shadrach Woodson Phelps b: September 1845 in Russell Co., Kentucky. d: Abt. 1924 in Russell Co., Kentucky.
..  +Mary A. Wolford b: July 1846 in Russell Co., Kentucky. d: Aft. 1900 in Russell Co., Kentucky. m: Bef. 1881 in Russell Co., Kentucky.
 4   Clarence L. Phelps b: January 1881 in Russell Co., Kentucky. d: in California
..  +Margaret Livingood  d: in California
 5   Waldo Woodson Phelps b: Private in California 
 
His son, a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California Santa Barbara wrote this article on his father and had it published in the Kentucky Explorer.  I talked to him this morning and he would be delighted to let you put it on the website if you want to......He is very proud of his father and his work. [From Marilyn Phelps]


Russell County Bios
Biography of Avery Smith
*See ARCHIVES for more BIOS!*
Biography of Henry Wade Ross


Recent Submissions:

The following were submitted by visitors to the site:

Russell County Births 1911-1920
Russell County Mortality Census 1850, 1860, &1870
Death Certificates
BERNARD, Emma D., female, white, married
Certificate #25358
Date & place of birth:  September 18, 1878  Russell County, Kentucky
Residence: Irvins Shore, Rural Russell County, Kentucky
Date & place of death: October 20, 1941  Rural Russell County Kentucky
Age: 63 years, 1 month, 2 days
Husband:  William T. Bernard
Occupation:  Housewife
Father's name:  Hugh Frank Wade
Birthplace of father:  Kentucky
Mother's maiden name: Lettie Harris
Birthplace of Mother:  Kentucky
Informant: Lola Bernard
Address:  Catherine, Kentucky
Cause of death:  apoplexy
Attending physician: J. B. Tarter (?) M.D.  Russell Springs, Kentucky
Date & place of burial: Unioin Cemetery October 21, 1941
Undertaker: Friends, Fonthill, Kentucky, RR 2
(VERY terrible handwriting)
BERNARD, James Anderson, male, white, married
Certificate #35750
Date & place of birth: March 7, 1853  Russell County, Kentucky
Residence: Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky
Date & place of death: may 20, 1940  Jamestown, Russell County Kentucky
Age: 68 years, 6 months, 7 days
Spouse:  Catherine Bernard
Occupation:  farmer
Father's name:  Joseph (?) Bernard
Birthplace of father:  Russell County, Kentucky
Mother's maiden name: Peggy B______
Birthplace of Mother:  Russell County, Kentucky
Informant: L. E. Bernard (?)
Address:  Jamestown, Kentucky
Cause of death:  Heart lesians due to influenza
Attending physician: J. B. Tarter, M.D.  Russell Springs, Kentucky
Date & place of burial: Illegible   May 21, 1940
Undertaker: Illegible  Russell Springs, Phil, Kentucky
BERNARD, Walker C., male, white, widowed
Certificate #1825
Date & place of birth: July 15, 1874, Kentucky
Residence: Rural Russell County, Kentucky
Date & place of death:  January 26, 1948  Rural Russell, Kentucky
Age: 71 years, 6 months, 11 days
Occupation:  Farming
Father's name:  Frank Bernard
Birthplace of father:  Kentucky
Mother's maiden name: Sarah Edmonds
Birthplace of Mother:  Kentucky
Informant: Kelly Bernard
Address:  Russell Springs, Kentucky
Cause of death:  Ceregral Hemorage, Hypertensioin, due to valular insufficiency, dorsal myelitis
Attending physician: M. M. Lawrence, M.D.  Jamestown, Kentucky
Date & place of burial: Bernard Cemetery   January 28, 1948
Undertaker: H. E. Pruitt, Jamestown,  Kentucky
BERNARD, William Terrill, male, white, widowed
Certificate #12889
Date & place of birth: October 15, 1870  Hart County, Kentucky
Residence: Rural Russell County, Kentucky
Date & place of death: June 8, 1945  Rural Russell County, Kentucky
(name of hospital:  Fonthill KY)
Age:  78 years, 7 months, 23 days
Occupation:  Farmer
Father's name:  Hectero Bernard  (William Hector Owens Bernard)
Birthplace of father:  Hart County, Kentucky
Mother's maiden name: Sarah Wilkerson
Birthplace of Mother:  Hart County, Kentucky
Informant: Ader Wilson
Address:  Fonthill, Kentucky
Cause of death:  congestive heart failure due to hypertensive cardio-vascular disease
Other conditions:  senility
Attending physician: W. B. Miller, M.D.  Russell Springs, Kentucky
Date & place of burial: Union Cemetery  June 10, 1949
Undertaker: Paul M. Walkup  Jamestown, Kentucky
COMPTON, Ida, female, white, ------
Certificate #23492
Date & place of birth: September 10, 1912  Russell County, Kentucky
Residence:
Date & place of death:  September 12, 1912  Russell County Kentucky
Age: 2 days
Occupation: 
Father's name:  Charlie Compton
Birthplace of father:  Clinton County, Kentucky
Mother's maiden name: Leslie Grant
Birthplace of Mother: Adair County, Kentucky
Informant: Charlie Compton
Address:  Crocus, Kentucky
Cause of death:  Premature birth 8 month child.  I never saw the child but this is the information I rec'd.
Attending physician: J. S. Rowe, M.D.  Jamestown, Kentucky
Date & place of burial: Grant Graveyard   September 12, 1912
Undertaker:  J. W. Bradshaw, Crocus, Kentucky


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