Married Mary Walton 25 Jun 1829 Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
From Scott Corner's paper on Isaac Russell: "Isaac's parents, William and Isabella Russell, joined the exodus and in 1817 emigrated with their ten children to Canada. Isaac was then in his eleventh year." The family settled in York, Ontario, where Isaac apprenticed as a cabinetmaker and married Mary Walton who had emigrated from Alston with the Russell family. He was an active Methodist in Charleston 9 miles northwest of Toronto when a Mormon apostle visited in 1836 and converted him (after first converting his sister Isabella Russell Walton, and another sister Frances Russell Dawson). Isaac became a missionary and went back to England in 1837 to convert family members. At first he was flatly rejected by family members and even persecuted in the Alston community. By May 1838 when he returned to the US, Isaac had brought 60+ souls into the church.
By the winter of 1843 mostly all of these Alston saints had immigrated to Nauvoo. Isaac was accused of usurping authority over a small group of his converts and behaving as their prophet. He was alleged to have said that Joseph Smith had "fallen" and that he, Isaac, was now the prophet. He led about 30 families to Missouri in the fall of 1838 but the camp broke up in Feb 1839 after finding out Isaac was not authorized by the church at Far West, and most of them went to Pittsfield, IL across the river. In April 1839, Isaac Russell and many of those he had converted in Canada were excommunicated from the Church at Far West. Isaac bitterly resented Rigdon's action and called it unjust and unlawful. He stayed in Far West among anti-Mormon mobs, never rejoined the Church, and died in 1844 on his farm near Richmond, MO, of "swamp fever." His youngest child, Isabella Russell, born a year before his death, later wrote his biography. In 1861, Mary Russell, Isaac's widow, moved her children to Salt Lake City - she was very faithful to the church.
Contributed by Ann Lewis FAG Member 46922504.
From Scott Corner's paper on Isaac Russell: "Isaac's parents, William and Isabella Russell, joined the exodus and in 1817 emigrated with their ten children to Canada. Isaac was then in his eleventh year." The family settled in York, Ontario, where Isaac apprenticed as a cabinetmaker and married Mary Walton who had emigrated from Alston with the Russell family. He was an active Methodist in Charleston 9 miles northwest of Toronto when a Mormon apostle visited in 1836 and converted him (after first converting his sister Isabella Russell Walton, and another sister Frances Russell Dawson). Isaac became a missionary and went back to England in 1837 to convert family members. At first he was flatly rejected by family members and even persecuted in the Alston community. By May 1838 when he returned to the US, Isaac had brought 60+ souls into the church.
By the winter of 1843 mostly all of these Alston saints had immigrated to Nauvoo. Isaac was accused of usurping authority over a small group of his converts and behaving as their prophet. He was alleged to have said that Joseph Smith had "fallen" and that he, Isaac, was now the prophet. He led about 30 families to Missouri in the fall of 1838 but the camp broke up in Feb 1839 after finding out Isaac was not authorized by the church at Far West, and most of them went to Pittsfield, IL across the river. In April 1839, Isaac Russell and many of those he had converted in Canada were excommunicated from the Church at Far West. Isaac bitterly resented Rigdon's action and called it unjust and unlawful. He stayed in Far West among anti-Mormon mobs, never rejoined the Church, and died in 1844 on his farm near Richmond, MO, of "swamp fever." His youngest child, Isabella Russell, born a year before his death, later wrote his biography. In 1861, Mary Russell, Isaac's widow, moved her children to Salt Lake City - she was very faithful to the church.
Contributed by Ann Lewis FAG Member 46922504.
Married Mary Walton 25 Jun 1829 Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
From Scott Corner's paper on Isaac Russell: "Isaac's parents, William and Isabella Russell, joined the exodus and in 1817 emigrated with their ten children to Canada. Isaac was then in his eleventh year." The family settled in York, Ontario, where Isaac apprenticed as a cabinetmaker and married Mary Walton who had emigrated from Alston with the Russell family. He was an active Methodist in Charleston 9 miles northwest of Toronto when a Mormon apostle visited in 1836 and converted him (after first converting his sister Isabella Russell Walton, and another sister Frances Russell Dawson). Isaac became a missionary and went back to England in 1837 to convert family members. At first he was flatly rejected by family members and even persecuted in the Alston community. By May 1838 when he returned to the US, Isaac had brought 60+ souls into the church.
By the winter of 1843 mostly all of these Alston saints had immigrated to Nauvoo. Isaac was accused of usurping authority over a small group of his converts and behaving as their prophet. He was alleged to have said that Joseph Smith had "fallen" and that he, Isaac, was now the prophet. He led about 30 families to Missouri in the fall of 1838 but the camp broke up in Feb 1839 after finding out Isaac was not authorized by the church at Far West, and most of them went to Pittsfield, IL across the river. In April 1839, Isaac Russell and many of those he had converted in Canada were excommunicated from the Church at Far West. Isaac bitterly resented Rigdon's action and called it unjust and unlawful. He stayed in Far West among anti-Mormon mobs, never rejoined the Church, and died in 1844 on his farm near Richmond, MO, of "swamp fever." His youngest child, Isabella Russell, born a year before his death, later wrote his biography. In 1861, Mary Russell, Isaac's widow, moved her children to Salt Lake City - she was very faithful to the church.
Contributed by Ann Lewis FAG Member 46922504.
From Scott Corner's paper on Isaac Russell: "Isaac's parents, William and Isabella Russell, joined the exodus and in 1817 emigrated with their ten children to Canada. Isaac was then in his eleventh year." The family settled in York, Ontario, where Isaac apprenticed as a cabinetmaker and married Mary Walton who had emigrated from Alston with the Russell family. He was an active Methodist in Charleston 9 miles northwest of Toronto when a Mormon apostle visited in 1836 and converted him (after first converting his sister Isabella Russell Walton, and another sister Frances Russell Dawson). Isaac became a missionary and went back to England in 1837 to convert family members. At first he was flatly rejected by family members and even persecuted in the Alston community. By May 1838 when he returned to the US, Isaac had brought 60+ souls into the church.
By the winter of 1843 mostly all of these Alston saints had immigrated to Nauvoo. Isaac was accused of usurping authority over a small group of his converts and behaving as their prophet. He was alleged to have said that Joseph Smith had "fallen" and that he, Isaac, was now the prophet. He led about 30 families to Missouri in the fall of 1838 but the camp broke up in Feb 1839 after finding out Isaac was not authorized by the church at Far West, and most of them went to Pittsfield, IL across the river. In April 1839, Isaac Russell and many of those he had converted in Canada were excommunicated from the Church at Far West. Isaac bitterly resented Rigdon's action and called it unjust and unlawful. He stayed in Far West among anti-Mormon mobs, never rejoined the Church, and died in 1844 on his farm near Richmond, MO, of "swamp fever." His youngest child, Isabella Russell, born a year before his death, later wrote his biography. In 1861, Mary Russell, Isaac's widow, moved her children to Salt Lake City - she was very faithful to the church.
Contributed by Ann Lewis FAG Member 46922504.
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