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Roy Drayton Russell

Male 1900 - 1929  (29 years)


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  • Name Roy Drayton Russell  [1, 2
    Birth 9 Mar 1900  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Nov 1929  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Halbert Cemetery (Joel Halbert Cemetery / Fox Hill Cemetery), Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • San Augustine Tribune

      Thursday, October 20, 2005

      San Augustine History 1929 by Harry P. Noble

      November 1929

      Roy Russell (30), a well-to-do Milam farmer, was stabbed in the lower stomach on the Hemphill courthouse steps by his nephew, Al HOLBERT (Halbert?), and died a few minutes later. According to M.S. MORRIS, an eyewitness, the stabbing grew out of an arguement over a pair of mules. After the stabbing, Ran Russell, a brother to Roy, attacked Holbert, but Holbert made his escape through the crowd. However, Holbert was soon found and arrested but since he had received several deep cuts on the neck and face he was taken to a hospital where he was kept under close guard.
    Person ID I15709  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father A. B. Russell,   b. 9 Jun 1869, Snow Hill, Wilcox County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Apr 1961, Houston, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Mother Anna Dixie McGown,   b. 26 Dec 1872, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1921 (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 20 Jan 1892  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • At the time of the 1910 census, she was listed as the mother of five children, four of whom were still living.
    Family ID F8026  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Vergie Lorena Halbert,   b. 4 Nov 1905, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1991, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1924 
    • They appear to have been separated at the time of the 1930 census. Virgie Russell, age 24, is listed as the head of a household consisting of her six year old son, R.D. Russell, Jr., Her widowed mother, Mary Halbert, and 23 year old Kirby Russell, her brother-in-law.
    Children 
     1. Roy Drayton "R. D." Russell, Jr.,   b. 27 Jul 1923, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jul 1999, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F5662  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Feb 2011 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 9 Mar 1900 - Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 16 Nov 1929 - Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.).

    2. [S1075] McCary, Kay P. "Halbert Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.

    3. [S434] Toole, Blanche "Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900 1900-1910 Prior to 1875" c. 1983, p. 33 (Reliability: 2).