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OCONTO COUNTY
Wisconsin
FAMILIES and BIOGRAPHIES
.RUSSELL.
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 Peter
Paul Russell
|
 Peter
Paul Russell and Agnes Nettles
Wedding 1889 |
Photographs Researched and Contributed by:
Ann Ellen Barr
I took photos of my Catherine RUSSELL and my GOMBER gravestones. They are at the Catholic Cemetery in city of Oconto, Oconto County, WI.
As
a girl of age 13 in 1880, Ann Ellen Russell did this piece while
a student (probably 8th grade). It has 13 flesh-tined shades in the
petipoint
of the face of the
Christ Child. In
1944, her daughter, Genevieve
Wren Sass, took it to Marshall Field & Co in Chicago to be
properly
framed and sealed. At the time they offered to purchase the piece but
it
was far too precious to the family as an heirloom. Up until this point
it had benn in a bos in th attic of Ann Ellen Russell Wren's home
in
Milwaukee, Wi. Unframed and esposed to light and air, it had
deteriorated
rapidly. The original background was black but has faded. Genevieve
Sass
wanted to be certain it was preserved so had it specially framed.
When Genevieve Sass was moving to a retirement apartment, she asked her daughter, Ann Ellen Sass Barr, named for Ann Ellen Russell, if she would like to have the piece. It is very precious due to its provenance and it is my hope that it will be carefully preserved for our family when I am no longer here to care for it.
Ann
Ellen RUSSELL (1867 - 1927) did needlework throughout her
life
making many of the altar cloths for St. Joseph's and then for St.
Thomas Aquinas in Milwaukee after they moved there. Despite
12 children,
she was always busy doing crochet work using the big pocket in her
apron
to contain her items in progress.
RUSSELL
gravestone:
Catherine Barnes
RUSSELL b.
19 Dec 1843 Ottawa, Can; d. 06 Apr 1889 Oconto, WI
Gomber
gravestone:
Dudley Gomber
(husband of Marie Rosetta
RUSSELL (b. Apr 1908), daughter of Alexander David RUSSELL and Mary
Theresa
LADURON.
Hope
this helps anyone else researching these families.
This
connects to research being done by Gloria
A. Olson regarding the Laduron Family; and by
Ann
Ellen Barr regarding the RUSSELL family
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