Radford
B. Russell, a farmer of Alabama Township, is a native of this country, born in
1860, and has spent nearly all his life here. After marriage he settled down
upon a fine ranch of 160 acres, devoted principally to grain and hay, four and
a half miles from Galt, on the road to Ione. Mr. Russell married Miss Mattie
Emerson, who was born in San Joaquin County, this State, in 1867. William
Russell, the father of Radford B. was born in Kentucky in 1818, and his wife,
Malinda, was born in Arkansas in 1827, and both are still living, making their
home with the subject of this paragraph.
Transcribed
by: Marla Fitzsimmons
An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California.
By Hon. Win. J. Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 289.
© 2004 Marla Fitzsimmons.