Ancestry of
Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

Elizabeth C. Russell

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Jim Douglas — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • John Russell 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Matilda Corbin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Feb 1850 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pleasantville, Venango, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1929 
  • Death Location:
  • Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
  • 14 Jan 1929 
  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Obed Sansbury James
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Nov 1868 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Wayland Victor James (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • Elizabeth Russell's given name is also seen as Lizzie.

• Sources for Elizabeth C. Russell

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Venango County, 1850, Allegheny, Image 8 of 28.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/04/2025).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915, Marriage record for son Wayland V James and Ida E Flower.
  • ⁴ Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972, Death certificate for Obed S James, incorrectly gives wife Elizabeth as mother.
  • ⁵ Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972, Death certificate for Elizabeth C James.
  • ⁶ The Springfield Daily Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 27 AUG 1924, p. 6, Wedding of Henry O Holley and granddaughter Elizabeth F James.
  • ⁷ The Springfield Daily Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 03 DEC 1938, p. 1, Obituary for son Wayland V James.
  • ⁸ Blackmar, Frank W., Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, . . ., Part 1, Chicago: Standard Publishing Company (1912), 70.
  • ⁹ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 967.
  • ¹⁰ Jordan, John W., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 180-181.