Ann Haseltine Hill Russell was born in Sweetwater, Tennesse. She came to Oregon in 1853 with her parents Isaac William Hill and Elizabeth Fine Hill. She married James Russell on 9 May 1854. They lived briefly in Yreka, Phoenix and Idaho before settling in Ashland on 14 April 1865. There they built a water powered Marble mill on Ashland Creek. Ann learned the marble trade from her husband and when he died she continued the business. A 1908 Ashland Tidings article quoted an article from the Monumental News, a Chicago published trade journal,
"Mrs. Ann Hazeltine Hill Russell of Ashland Oregon enjoys the distinction of being a skillful, practical marble cutter and carver. She owns a marble shop in Ashland and does all kinds of stone work, making a specialty of carved monumental work.
Mrs. Russell learned her trade from her husband in lettering and carving and she finally surpassed her teacher. She has conducted the business since her husband's death, and does all the lettering, carving, and designing and attends personally to setting up each monument.
In a quote from the Tidings article Ann said
'[In 1865] Mr. Russell built a marble mill here run by water power, and supplied the trade of four counties in Southern Oregon. He worked exclusively in Oregon marble -- white crystal marble from a quarry about sixty miles northwest of Ashland. After the railroad came, Vermont marble almost entirely supplanted Oregon marble in our shop. I delight to carve in Vermont marble, as it is so much softer than the Oregon stone, and the latter is almost as hard to work as granite.' "
Many of Ann's cemetery monuments can be identified by the Temperance bow she included on most of her monuments. She was an ardent supporter of the Temperance Movement. She often participated in pickets of Ashland's many saloons
Ann was the mother of eleven children:
James Buchanon Russell 1856-1952,
Grace Russell Fountain 1858-1942,
Fannie Nellie Russell 1859-1945,
Mary Russell Eubanks 1862-1890,
Martha Russell Boyd 1863-1953,
Hortense Russell Vining 1866-1943,
Theodosia Russell Vining 1869-1955,
Bertha Elizabeth Russell Winter 1871-1946,
Mabel Edna Russell Lowthers 1874-1959,
Carl Marvin Russell 1878-1950,
Pearl Hasseltine Russell Potter Wiley 1880-1965
There are two Journal/Diaries written by two of the Hill sisters on file at the Southern Oregon University Library, as well as a family biography written by one of their descendants.
"Mrs. Ann Hazeltine Hill Russell of Ashland Oregon enjoys the distinction of being a skillful, practical marble cutter and carver. She owns a marble shop in Ashland and does all kinds of stone work, making a specialty of carved monumental work.
Mrs. Russell learned her trade from her husband in lettering and carving and she finally surpassed her teacher. She has conducted the business since her husband's death, and does all the lettering, carving, and designing and attends personally to setting up each monument.
In a quote from the Tidings article Ann said
'[In 1865] Mr. Russell built a marble mill here run by water power, and supplied the trade of four counties in Southern Oregon. He worked exclusively in Oregon marble -- white crystal marble from a quarry about sixty miles northwest of Ashland. After the railroad came, Vermont marble almost entirely supplanted Oregon marble in our shop. I delight to carve in Vermont marble, as it is so much softer than the Oregon stone, and the latter is almost as hard to work as granite.' "
Many of Ann's cemetery monuments can be identified by the Temperance bow she included on most of her monuments. She was an ardent supporter of the Temperance Movement. She often participated in pickets of Ashland's many saloons
Ann was the mother of eleven children:
James Buchanon Russell 1856-1952,
Grace Russell Fountain 1858-1942,
Fannie Nellie Russell 1859-1945,
Mary Russell Eubanks 1862-1890,
Martha Russell Boyd 1863-1953,
Hortense Russell Vining 1866-1943,
Theodosia Russell Vining 1869-1955,
Bertha Elizabeth Russell Winter 1871-1946,
Mabel Edna Russell Lowthers 1874-1959,
Carl Marvin Russell 1878-1950,
Pearl Hasseltine Russell Potter Wiley 1880-1965
There are two Journal/Diaries written by two of the Hill sisters on file at the Southern Oregon University Library, as well as a family biography written by one of their descendants.
Ann Haseltine Hill Russell was born in Sweetwater, Tennesse. She came to Oregon in 1853 with her parents Isaac William Hill and Elizabeth Fine Hill. She married James Russell on 9 May 1854. They lived briefly in Yreka, Phoenix and Idaho before settling in Ashland on 14 April 1865. There they built a water powered Marble mill on Ashland Creek. Ann learned the marble trade from her husband and when he died she continued the business. A 1908 Ashland Tidings article quoted an article from the Monumental News, a Chicago published trade journal,
"Mrs. Ann Hazeltine Hill Russell of Ashland Oregon enjoys the distinction of being a skillful, practical marble cutter and carver. She owns a marble shop in Ashland and does all kinds of stone work, making a specialty of carved monumental work.
Mrs. Russell learned her trade from her husband in lettering and carving and she finally surpassed her teacher. She has conducted the business since her husband's death, and does all the lettering, carving, and designing and attends personally to setting up each monument.
In a quote from the Tidings article Ann said
'[In 1865] Mr. Russell built a marble mill here run by water power, and supplied the trade of four counties in Southern Oregon. He worked exclusively in Oregon marble -- white crystal marble from a quarry about sixty miles northwest of Ashland. After the railroad came, Vermont marble almost entirely supplanted Oregon marble in our shop. I delight to carve in Vermont marble, as it is so much softer than the Oregon stone, and the latter is almost as hard to work as granite.' "
Many of Ann's cemetery monuments can be identified by the Temperance bow she included on most of her monuments. She was an ardent supporter of the Temperance Movement. She often participated in pickets of Ashland's many saloons
Ann was the mother of eleven children:
James Buchanon Russell 1856-1952,
Grace Russell Fountain 1858-1942,
Fannie Nellie Russell 1859-1945,
Mary Russell Eubanks 1862-1890,
Martha Russell Boyd 1863-1953,
Hortense Russell Vining 1866-1943,
Theodosia Russell Vining 1869-1955,
Bertha Elizabeth Russell Winter 1871-1946,
Mabel Edna Russell Lowthers 1874-1959,
Carl Marvin Russell 1878-1950,
Pearl Hasseltine Russell Potter Wiley 1880-1965
There are two Journal/Diaries written by two of the Hill sisters on file at the Southern Oregon University Library, as well as a family biography written by one of their descendants.
"Mrs. Ann Hazeltine Hill Russell of Ashland Oregon enjoys the distinction of being a skillful, practical marble cutter and carver. She owns a marble shop in Ashland and does all kinds of stone work, making a specialty of carved monumental work.
Mrs. Russell learned her trade from her husband in lettering and carving and she finally surpassed her teacher. She has conducted the business since her husband's death, and does all the lettering, carving, and designing and attends personally to setting up each monument.
In a quote from the Tidings article Ann said
'[In 1865] Mr. Russell built a marble mill here run by water power, and supplied the trade of four counties in Southern Oregon. He worked exclusively in Oregon marble -- white crystal marble from a quarry about sixty miles northwest of Ashland. After the railroad came, Vermont marble almost entirely supplanted Oregon marble in our shop. I delight to carve in Vermont marble, as it is so much softer than the Oregon stone, and the latter is almost as hard to work as granite.' "
Many of Ann's cemetery monuments can be identified by the Temperance bow she included on most of her monuments. She was an ardent supporter of the Temperance Movement. She often participated in pickets of Ashland's many saloons
Ann was the mother of eleven children:
James Buchanon Russell 1856-1952,
Grace Russell Fountain 1858-1942,
Fannie Nellie Russell 1859-1945,
Mary Russell Eubanks 1862-1890,
Martha Russell Boyd 1863-1953,
Hortense Russell Vining 1866-1943,
Theodosia Russell Vining 1869-1955,
Bertha Elizabeth Russell Winter 1871-1946,
Mabel Edna Russell Lowthers 1874-1959,
Carl Marvin Russell 1878-1950,
Pearl Hasseltine Russell Potter Wiley 1880-1965
There are two Journal/Diaries written by two of the Hill sisters on file at the Southern Oregon University Library, as well as a family biography written by one of their descendants.
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My Wish
After times fitful fever passes o're To count my jewels on the peaceful shore To dwell forever in the land of song Where peace and love and happiness belong.
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