1870 United States Federal Census

Name: George W Russel
Age in 1870: 39
Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: Canada
Home in 1870: Weber River Valley, Weber, Utah Territory
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Ogden
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
George W Russel 39
Susan Russel 30
Isabella Russel 6
Susanna Russel 5
John Russel 4
James A Russel 1
Samuel Russel 3/12

Source Citation
Year: 1870; Census Place: Weber River Valley, Weber, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1613; Page: 436B; Image: 398879; Family History Library Film: 553112
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data:
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Description
This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1870 United States Federal Census, the Ninth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age at last birthday, sex, color; birthplace, occupation, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1870 Federal Census. Learn more...

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Warren Walling Company (1860)

DEPARTURE
30 May 1860

ARRIVAL
9 August 1860

172 individuals and 30 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).

NAME AGE BIRTHDATE DEATHDATE
Russell, George Walton 30 31 December 1830 1 March 1896
Russell, Susan Easter 21 9 April 1839 30 April 1909

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George Walton Russell and Susan Easter Russell
Contributed By dianeolson16 · 31 October 2013 · 0 Comments
Source: "Out of our past" by Alfred Russell Croft Sr. and Irene Hutchings Croft.
This book was published in 1973


George Walton and Susan Easter Russell page 4

"Here is a man with a good wagon and team of horses," pointing to George W. Russell, "and here is a woman with a trunk full of fine clothes," pointing to Susan Easter, "you two get married."
The speaker was Captain J. B. Ross of a company being organized to bring Latter-day Saint converts to Utah. The place was Florence, Nebraska, in the spring of 1860. Three days following this event, on May 29, 1860, George W. Russell and Susan Easter were married by Captain Ross and they left for Utah with a pioneer wagon train.
Susan Easter Russell was born April 9, 1839, at Great Canfield, Essex, England, the daughter of John and Susan Bass Easter.
Her mother died when she was born, and her father when she was 9 years old. She was brought up by her mother's sister Ann Bass and when 15 or 16 years of age was converted to the religion of the Latter-day Saints by C. R. Savage and Charles W. Penrose, who were young traveling elders in London, England. A short time after baptism, in 1854, she came to New York and was employed by a large dressmaking establishment. A short time later she came west to Florence, Nebraska, where she joined a company of Latter-day Saints and met George W. Russell.
George Walton Russell was born in Toronto, Canada, on December 30, 1830. His father's family was converted to the LDS faith by Parley P. Pratt, an apostle in the Mormon Church, who was sent to upper Canada to open up the church program in that area. After traveling in Toronto for some time, Elder Pratt meeting with absolutely no success in preaching, met by chance with Jon Taylor and Mary Russell Walton. Mrs. Walton took him into her home and gave him a place to preach, and Mormonism became established in Canada by that event. Later, the first six missionaries who were sent to England by the LDS church included Isaac Russell, father of George W. and brother of Mary Russell Walton. these missionaries were instrumental in taking the gospel to the British Isles.
George Walton Russell with members of his family had joined the Mormon Church and settled in Missouri where they experienced many of the trials and tribulations (including the infamous Haun's Mill Massacre), that were experienced by man Mormons. The Russells had come to Utah in the late 1850's and George W. was sent by Brigham Young to Florence, Nebraska, to help bring some of the destitute saints to Utah. It is there that he met and married his future wife, Susan Easter.
My mother, Mary Isbell Russell Croft, the eldest daughter of Susan Easter and George W. Russell, gives a brief account of her mother as follows: "My mother had beautiful clothes when she came here(presumable meaning Utah), but they were entirely out of place and she sold them wherever she could for common necessities. One thing she regretted was a paisley shawl, sold to Walker brothers, pioneer merchants for a few odds and ends of groceries."
"My Father was a restless man, and never stayed long in any one place. Pioneer life was very hard for my mother. Indians terrified her. She was rather nervous, and they took pleasure in frightening her. She was the mother of 11 children, and raised six to maturity. Some of them were born under trying circumstances."

George W. Russell first settled in Lehi, having arrived in Utah in 1857. When he was sent back to Florence, Nebraska, to bring some of the destitute saints to Utah, presumably, he was living in Ogden where he had acquired the land which is now the corner of 25th Street and Washington Avenue where the Commercial Security Bank (earlier the Broom Hotel) is located. Enroute to the Missouri River to bring back the saints in 1860, George W. met John Broom who was enroute to Utah and traded him the land mentioned for parts of an old gun. The land was "swampy", George said, "and no good for farming."

George W. and Susan Easter Russell in Utah and Idaho Page 22
As I remember the rather traditional history of the family, George W. Lived in Salt Lake and Weber counties in Utah and was one of the pioneers to the Bear Lake Country in Idaho. In about 2 years he moved back to Ogden, stopping for the winter in Huntsville because he was unable to make the complete trip, and probably because there was some sort of a cabin there that he could live in. One of his sons, Alexander W. was born in Huntsville, September 30, 1868.
I remember my mother telling about their experiences in the settlements of Bear Lake country. They were only there for a few years, but during that time they lived at Laketown, Fish Haven and St. Charles. Their home was at Fish Haven when George W. decided to move back to Ogden in the early fall of about 1868. I remember mother telling that they went away leaving the pigs and chickens and cows in the corral, probably sold for a few dollars to some of the settlers who were there at the time. George W. is reported to have worked on the construction of the UP railroad during the winter of 1868-69 when he lived in Huntsville.
The next Russell home was in Hooper where George built a small comfortable adobe home where they lived until about 1880 when they moved to Ogden at the corner of 30th street and Madison Avenue where George bought about 10 city lots. After this move was over, his wife Susan vowed she would never move again, and she never did.
George Walton built a rather crude but comfortable frame house near the corner of 30th and Madison Avenue, and set up a salt-grinding mill using water from Strong's canyon for power. The mill was located at a point where the creek crosses Patterson Avenue about 200 feet East from Madison. He sold salt for a living. Later, presumably about 1885, George built a two-story adobe house next to his original at approximately 719 30th Street. It is not clear exactly who actually built the home. His son Samuel, in later years, always said: " I built my mother a home." Probably he helped, as did other members of the family. This adobe house was two storied with 2 rooms, pantry and entrance hall on the first floor, and two rooms on the second floor. It was never a very livable home.

George W. Russell Goes to Mexico page 23
About 1890, George W. became restless, took a second wife and moved to Mexico. His first wife refused to go along with him. George and his second wife had 4 children in Mexico, and he died in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 19, 1896.
About 1906 a strong East wind hit Ogden and damaged the Russell adobe home so that it was unsafe for occupancy. Accordingly, grandmother Russell moved next door with her daughter and son-in-law, the George A. Crofts. She occupied two rooms on the second floor of the Croft home, doing most of her housework until she died of what was described as apoplexy on 30 April 1909.

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George Walton Russell and Susan Easter Russell
Contributed By dianeolson16 · 31 October 2013 · 0 Comments
Source: "Out of our past" by Alfred Russell Croft Sr. and Irene Hutchings Croft.
This book was published in 1973


George Walton and Susan Easter Russell page 4

"Here is a man with a good wagon and team of horses," pointing to George W. Russell, "and here is a woman with a trunk full of fine clothes," pointing to Susan Easter, "you two get married."
The speaker was Captain J. B. Ross of a company being organized to bring Latter-day Saint converts to Utah. The place was Florence, Nebraska, in the spring of 1860. Three days following this event, on May 29, 1860, George W. Russell and Susan Easter were married by Captain Ross and they left for Utah with a pioneer wagon train.
Susan Easter Russell was born April 9, 1839, at Great Canfield, Essex, England, the daughter of John and Susan Bass Easter.
Her mother died when she was born, and her father when she was 9 years old. She was brought up by her mother's sister Ann Bass and when 15 or 16 years of age was converted to the religion of the Latter-day Saints by C. R. Savage and Charles W. Penrose, who were young traveling elders in London, England. A short time after baptism, in 1854, she came to New York and was employed by a large dressmaking establishment. A short time later she came west to Florence, Nebraska, where she joined a company of Latter-day Saints and met George W. Russell.
George Walton Russell was born in Toronto, Canada, on December 30, 1830. His father's family was converted to the LDS faith by Parley P. Pratt, an apostle in the Mormon Church, who was sent to upper Canada to open up the church program in that area. After traveling in Toronto for some time, Elder Pratt meeting with absolutely no success in preaching, met by chance with Jon Taylor and Mary Russell Walton. Mrs. Walton took him into her home and gave him a place to preach, and Mormonism became established in Canada by that event. Later, the first six missionaries who were sent to England by the LDS church included Isaac Russell, father of George W. and brother of Mary Russell Walton. these missionaries were instrumental in taking the gospel to the British Isles.
George Walton Russell with members of his family had joined the Mormon Church and settled in Missouri where they experienced many of the trials and tribulations (including the infamous Haun's Mill Massacre), that were experienced by man Mormons. The Russells had come to Utah in the late 1850's and George W. was sent by Brigham Young to Florence, Nebraska, to help bring some of the destitute saints to Utah. It is there that he met and married his future wife, Susan Easter.
My mother, Mary Isbell Russell Croft, the eldest daughter of Susan Easter and George W. Russell, gives a brief account of her mother as follows: "My mother had beautiful clothes when she came here(presumable meaning Utah), but they were entirely out of place and she sold them wherever she could for common necessities. One thing she regretted was a paisley shawl, sold to Walker brothers, pioneer merchants for a few odds and ends of groceries."
"My Father was a restless man, and never stayed long in any one place. Pioneer life was very hard for my mother. Indians terrified her. She was rather nervous, and they took pleasure in frightening her. She was the mother of 11 children, and raised six to maturity. Some of them were born under trying circumstances."

George W. Russell first settled in Lehi, having arrived in Utah in 1857. When he was sent back to Florence, Nebraska, to bring some of the destitute saints to Utah, presumably, he was living in Ogden where he had acquired the land which is now the corner of 25th Street and Washington Avenue where the Commercial Security Bank (earlier the Broom Hotel) is located. Enroute to the Missouri River to bring back the saints in 1860, George W. met John Broom who was enroute to Utah and traded him the land mentioned for parts of an old gun. The land was "swampy", George said, "and no good for farming."

George W. and Susan Easter Russell in Utah and Idaho Page 22
As I remember the rather traditional history of the family, George W. Lived in Salt Lake and Weber counties in Utah and was one of the pioneers to the Bear Lake Country in Idaho. In about 2 years he moved back to Ogden, stopping for the winter in Huntsville because he was unable to make the complete trip, and probably because there was some sort of a cabin there that he could live in. One of his sons, Alexander W. was born in Huntsville, September 30, 1868.
I remember my mother telling about their experiences in the settlements of Bear Lake country. They were only there for a few years, but during that time they lived at Laketown, Fish Haven and St. Charles. Their home was at Fish Haven when George W. decided to move back to Ogden in the early fall of about 1868. I remember mother telling that they went away leaving the pigs and chickens and cows in the corral, probably sold for a few dollars to some of the settlers who were there at the time. George W. is reported to have worked on the construction of the UP railroad during the winter of 1868-69 when he lived in Huntsville.
The next Russell home was in Hooper where George built a small comfortable adobe home where they lived until about 1880 when they moved to Ogden at the corner of 30th street and Madison Avenue where George bought about 10 city lots. After this move was over, his wife Susan vowed she would never move again, and she never did.
George Walton built a rather crude but comfortable frame house near the corner of 30th and Madison Avenue, and set up a salt-grinding mill using water from Strong's canyon for power. The mill was located at a point where the creek crosses Patterson Avenue about 200 feet East from Madison. He sold salt for a living. Later, presumably about 1885, George built a two-story adobe house next to his original at approximately 719 30th Street. It is not clear exactly who actually built the home. His son Samuel, in later years, always said: " I built my mother a home." Probably he helped, as did other members of the family. This adobe house was two storied with 2 rooms, pantry and entrance hall on the first floor, and two rooms on the second floor. It was never a very livable home.

George W. Russell Goes to Mexico page 23
About 1890, George W. became restless, took a second wife and moved to Mexico. His first wife refused to go along with him. George and his second wife had 4 children in Mexico, and he died in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 19, 1896.
About 1906 a strong East wind hit Ogden and damaged the Russell adobe home so that it was unsafe for occupancy. Accordingly, grandmother Russell moved next door with her daughter and son-in-law, the George A. Crofts. She occupied two rooms on the second floor of the Croft home, doing most of her housework until she died of what was described as apoplexy on 30 April 1909.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Out_of_Our_Past.html?id=8p15XwAACAAJ