Jane Simpson (Jones) Russell (1888 - 1975)

Born 20 Aug 1888 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Albert Young Russell — married 26 Jan 1916 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina, United States

Died 2 May 1975 at age 86 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States

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Flora Ann McIver Jones

She married Simpson David Jones who owned a terpentine mill, department store, and corner saloon in Sanford, North Carolina.

Simpson died in 1899 (cause unknown) leaving Flora with lots of land and a big house (somewhere near RR tracks in W. Sanford, NC), but no money to raise 7 or 8 children.

The children's names are: Edgar, Guy, Lee, Emma Kate, Janie, Floy, Ethel, and Annie.

Apparently, there were lots of men working on the RR at that time, so Flora provided board for them since they were working long periods of time away from their homes. She may have also provided room, since the 1910 census gives names unrelated to my family.

While Flora was running the boarding house, one of the RR workers, Allie Young Russell (who was working his way through school) fell in love with Janie McIver.

Janie had fallen at age 5 and shattered most of the bones on one of her feet. From then to when Allie married her, she was in a wheel chair.

After marriage and the birth, Seba Russell, they moved to Baltimore, MD where Allie was a dental surgeon at Fort McHenry Army Hospital (he is listed as an "officer" in the 1920 Census).

He was a pioneer in facial reconstruction for the WWI victims and invented medicines and protheses to rebuild faces. Co-incidently, he had been interested in sculpture as a teenager. Afterward, he taught at the U of MD Dental School (he still holds the record for the youngest student to ever enter the dental school (Age 14).

He was president of the Maryland Dental Society and went into private practice.

After he died in 1941, Janie continued to mix, bottle and distribute a medicine he'd invented named Zincreo.

Eventually it was bought by a pharmaceutical company and the formula is now sold as Paragoric.

It was told to me by my mother that within a year after Dr. Russell died (Janie Russell never referred to him in any other name, but Dr. Russell)

Janie could not mix the formula any more, because she ran out of one of the ingredients. She searched frantically (since this was her only means of support), but the source and/or distributer of the ingredient was nowhere to be found.

The story goes that Grandpa Russell appeared at the foot of her bed in a dream and told her where to order the ingredient.

She did so and mixed the medicine for many more years until the patent was sold.

Janie J Russell in household of Allie Y Russell, "United States Census, 1930" https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X34Z-JX2 Citation "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X34Z-JX2 : accessed 7 November 2015), Janie J Russell in household of Allie Y Russell, Baltimore (Districts 251-500), Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0451, sheet 27A, family 300, line 39, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 871; FHL microfilm 2,340,606. R

Jannie Jones in household of Flora A Jones, "United States Census, 1910" https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML3Q-D8L Citation "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML3Q-D8L : accessed 7 November 2015), Jannie Jones in household of Flora A Jones, West Sanford, Lee, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 46, sheet 18B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,133.

Janie Jones, "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979" https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8WR-9P5 Citation "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8WR-9P5 : accessed 7 November 2015), A. Y. Russell and Janie Jones, 26 Jan 1916; citing West Sanford, Lee, North Carolina, reference NC MAR REC 205; FHL microfilm 847,667.

North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 Birth, Marriage & Death Name Janie Jones Spouse A Y Russell Father S D Jones Mother Flora Jones Spouse's Father A Y Russell Spouse's Mother Susan A Russell Birth 1891 Marriage 26 Jan 1916 - Lee, North Carolina, USA - Age: 25

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 Birth, Marriage & Death Name Janie J Russell Relative Allie Y Russell Birth 20 Aug 1888 Death 2 May 1975

1930 United States Federal Census Census & Voter Lists Name Janie J Russell Spouse Allie Y Russell Children Helen S Russell Birth 1889 - North Carolina Marriage 27 Residence 1930 - Baltimore, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland - Age: 41

1920 United States Federal Census Census & Voter Lists Name Jennie Russell Spouse Allen Russell Children Seba Birth 1892 - North Carolina Residence 1920 - Baltimore Ward 9, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland - Age: 28

1910 United States Federal Census Census & Voter Lists Mother Flora A Jones Sibling Edger Birth 1889 Residence 1910 - West Sanford, Lee, North Carolina

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Birth, Marriage & Death Name Janie Russell Birth 20 Aug 1890 Death May 1975 - Big Pool, Washington, Maryland, USA Civil Maryland