Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Oldham Co.

JAMES W. RUSSELL was born in Oldham County, Ky., where Pewee Valley now is,
December 25, 1839, and is the second son of Benjamin and Mary (Bland)
Russell, natives respectively of Virginia and Nelson County, Ky.  Benjamin
Russell was a blacksmith by trade, but kept a hotel in Rollington Precinct,
Oldham County, where Pewee Valley now stands, and died when his son, James
W., was but three years of age.  His widow followed some time afterward.
James W. Russell has been a farmer and hotel-keeper nearly all his life,
and has passed twenty-five years as landlord in LaGrange, where he is now
conducting the Central House, and has a widespread reputation for his
liberality and gentlemanly treatment of his guests.  He served seven months
during the first year of the late war in the Sixth Kentucky Volunteers,
Federal Army, was wounded at Shiloh, and in consequence received his
discharge.  In 1867 he married Miss Bettie Morgan, a native of Shelby
County, Ky.  He is a Free Mason, Knight of Honor, and a member of the
I.O.O.F.

Russell Bland Morgan
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Nelson-KY Shelby-KY VA

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