W. J. F. RUSSELL was born September 24, 1842, in what is now Webster County, Ky., and is a son of John and Permelia (Duncan) Russell. The father was born in Tennessee; is long since deceased. The mother was born in North Carolina, and is now living in Webster County, Ky. About 1820 they immigrated to Kentucky. Our subject, at the age of twenty-one, engaged in farming on fifty-five acres of land, given him by his father, and from this small beginning, has accumulated 270 acres, largely improved. Mr. Russell was married, August 27, 1863, to Sarah F. Johnson, of Webster County, Ky. This union has been blessed with five children, of whom one son and two daughters are living. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are members of the Christian Church.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1048.