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Subject: [NYSTLAWR] Russell to Lisbon, ND
Date: 3 Apr 2004 17:57:10 -0700

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Surnames: Town, Colton, Stockwell, Thomas and more
Classification: Biography

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Undated newsclip, "Plaindealer"

MANY FROM RUSSELL WENT TO
LISBON, N. D.

I saw in the Plaindealer of last week that Theodore Murray of Lisbon, North Dakota had died, and I think by the different names given in the paper that the deceased was a cousin of Mrs. Alice Town. The people, a great many of them, who settled in Lisbon, North Dakota, were from South Russell and vicinity.
Joseph Colton and family were the first to go, then some time later, his mother, Rachel Colton, and two brothers, Aaron and William, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Thankful. They married the Murray brothers, George and Charles. George and Marinda Colton married. George and Celestia Blanchard of DeGrasse. Melvin, Adelbert and Elmer Colton married South Russell girls. There were two Cassada boys and families, and two sisters, Maria Colton, Mrs. Had Gardner of Edwards, Mrs. Aaron Thompson, who went. Others migrating there were two Thomas boys, Roswell and Charley, Jerry Clintsman who married Louise Stockwell, and their children, Mike and Charley Clintsman; the Ash Wells and Armstrongs from Clare; there were two girls, Maria and Asenath, John Town’s girls, and Orva Clark Townsend and Mary Ann Colson, Martha, Adelia, Grace, Leon, Walter, Stanley and Alice, all Coltons, and Julius, Theodore, Lottie, Walter, Caroline, Loivca, Leuella, Orsemas, Marshall, Aaron, all of the!
Murrays, Levi Stockwell, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stockwell, Eurilla Stockwell, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Canell, and John Canell. It was quite a large company.
Many who went from here took up land and homesteads and prospered until the droughts and storms ruined the crops. Then the younger generation left Dakota for different places, some going to Florida, Texas, California, Montana, Idaho and other states. There are only a few left in Dakota, some of the younger ones, who married there. Nearly all of the aged ones have passed to the beyond.
Mrs. Alice Town is of Rachel Colton’s family.
There were seven brothers and two daughters; William, Aaron, George, Alonzo, Daniel, Joseph and James, and Elizabeth and Thankful. Daniel was the undertaker at Russell village before Ray French. Alonzo’s family went to Minnesota. Only Olive (Mrs. Luman Wetheral), who was married at that time), Marion (Mrs. Orley Gibbons), Lois (Mrs. Gene Bromley), Helen (Mrs. Eugene Smith), Jennie and Lottie weren’t married at the time. They were all from Russell Village. Their mother, Mrs. Rachel Aldrich, went with them.

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