Sawyer County Record Feb. 16, 1911
Joseph Russell, a resident of Springbrook, died of appendicitis in the hospital at Chippewa Falls, on Friday Feb. 10, the remains being brought to Hayward for burial that day.
The deceased, a native of Nova Scotia, BC, was about 55 years of age. He came to Wisconsin from Stillwater, Minn., about 1887, and settled on a farm five miles from Spring Brook.
By trade he was a carpenter and had been employed at that work an at contract logging, etc., the past two years. Owing to the poor health of his wife, who is being treated at the Superior Sanitarium, he had not farmed for several years, although retained the farm. Of him Mr. D. McCann of Springbrook, who had known him for many years, writes that he was a good friend and neighbor and very highly respected.
Besides his wife there survives his children, Wm. J. of Portland, Oregon and a daughter, May Ellen, a nurse in the sanitarium at Madison. Another son, Vincent, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting six years ago.
Joseph Russell, a resident of Springbrook, died of appendicitis in the hospital at Chippewa Falls, on Friday Feb. 10, the remains being brought to Hayward for burial that day.
The deceased, a native of Nova Scotia, BC, was about 55 years of age. He came to Wisconsin from Stillwater, Minn., about 1887, and settled on a farm five miles from Spring Brook.
By trade he was a carpenter and had been employed at that work an at contract logging, etc., the past two years. Owing to the poor health of his wife, who is being treated at the Superior Sanitarium, he had not farmed for several years, although retained the farm. Of him Mr. D. McCann of Springbrook, who had known him for many years, writes that he was a good friend and neighbor and very highly respected.
Besides his wife there survives his children, Wm. J. of Portland, Oregon and a daughter, May Ellen, a nurse in the sanitarium at Madison. Another son, Vincent, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting six years ago.
Sawyer County Record Feb. 16, 1911
Joseph Russell, a resident of Springbrook, died of appendicitis in the hospital at Chippewa Falls, on Friday Feb. 10, the remains being brought to Hayward for burial that day.
The deceased, a native of Nova Scotia, BC, was about 55 years of age. He came to Wisconsin from Stillwater, Minn., about 1887, and settled on a farm five miles from Spring Brook.
By trade he was a carpenter and had been employed at that work an at contract logging, etc., the past two years. Owing to the poor health of his wife, who is being treated at the Superior Sanitarium, he had not farmed for several years, although retained the farm. Of him Mr. D. McCann of Springbrook, who had known him for many years, writes that he was a good friend and neighbor and very highly respected.
Besides his wife there survives his children, Wm. J. of Portland, Oregon and a daughter, May Ellen, a nurse in the sanitarium at Madison. Another son, Vincent, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting six years ago.
Joseph Russell, a resident of Springbrook, died of appendicitis in the hospital at Chippewa Falls, on Friday Feb. 10, the remains being brought to Hayward for burial that day.
The deceased, a native of Nova Scotia, BC, was about 55 years of age. He came to Wisconsin from Stillwater, Minn., about 1887, and settled on a farm five miles from Spring Brook.
By trade he was a carpenter and had been employed at that work an at contract logging, etc., the past two years. Owing to the poor health of his wife, who is being treated at the Superior Sanitarium, he had not farmed for several years, although retained the farm. Of him Mr. D. McCann of Springbrook, who had known him for many years, writes that he was a good friend and neighbor and very highly respected.
Besides his wife there survives his children, Wm. J. of Portland, Oregon and a daughter, May Ellen, a nurse in the sanitarium at Madison. Another son, Vincent, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting six years ago.
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