Was educated at Arcadia Academy where he excelled in fine arts and mathematics. He also studied German and astronomy with continued interest his whole life.
At age fourteen he witnessed Gen Price's invasion of Arcadia Valley and tried to protect his mother and the farm as best he could. On one occasion his mother hid him in an apple barrell in the cellar for fear that the Confederates might conscript him into service.
He went to Illinois from whence his mother came to learn the trade of a cooper where he met Mary Oat and they were soon married.
Claud lived with wife Mary in St Louis on Gibson St SE of Forest Park where he was a streetcar conductor and later a grocer at Manchester and Tower Grove avenue. Later upon retirement moved to Bourbon Mo. After Mary died in 1932, Claude went to live in Wyoming with his daughter and grandson.
f/o Florence (Russell) McCormick
Clifford Russell
At age fourteen he witnessed Gen Price's invasion of Arcadia Valley and tried to protect his mother and the farm as best he could. On one occasion his mother hid him in an apple barrell in the cellar for fear that the Confederates might conscript him into service.
He went to Illinois from whence his mother came to learn the trade of a cooper where he met Mary Oat and they were soon married.
Claud lived with wife Mary in St Louis on Gibson St SE of Forest Park where he was a streetcar conductor and later a grocer at Manchester and Tower Grove avenue. Later upon retirement moved to Bourbon Mo. After Mary died in 1932, Claude went to live in Wyoming with his daughter and grandson.
f/o Florence (Russell) McCormick
Clifford Russell
Was educated at Arcadia Academy where he excelled in fine arts and mathematics. He also studied German and astronomy with continued interest his whole life.
At age fourteen he witnessed Gen Price's invasion of Arcadia Valley and tried to protect his mother and the farm as best he could. On one occasion his mother hid him in an apple barrell in the cellar for fear that the Confederates might conscript him into service.
He went to Illinois from whence his mother came to learn the trade of a cooper where he met Mary Oat and they were soon married.
Claud lived with wife Mary in St Louis on Gibson St SE of Forest Park where he was a streetcar conductor and later a grocer at Manchester and Tower Grove avenue. Later upon retirement moved to Bourbon Mo. After Mary died in 1932, Claude went to live in Wyoming with his daughter and grandson.
f/o Florence (Russell) McCormick
Clifford Russell
At age fourteen he witnessed Gen Price's invasion of Arcadia Valley and tried to protect his mother and the farm as best he could. On one occasion his mother hid him in an apple barrell in the cellar for fear that the Confederates might conscript him into service.
He went to Illinois from whence his mother came to learn the trade of a cooper where he met Mary Oat and they were soon married.
Claud lived with wife Mary in St Louis on Gibson St SE of Forest Park where he was a streetcar conductor and later a grocer at Manchester and Tower Grove avenue. Later upon retirement moved to Bourbon Mo. After Mary died in 1932, Claude went to live in Wyoming with his daughter and grandson.
f/o Florence (Russell) McCormick
Clifford Russell
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