Louisa Storrs Russell

Wife of Rev. Ezekiel Russell D. D.

Two sons buried with them. An Infant and a young child, Sylvester Hovey. Had at least two other children, Mary Jane Russell Holbrook (b. Jul 26 1841 d. Sept 24 1886, married Everett Holbrook of Holbrook, MA) Caroline Louisa Russell (b. Sept 25 1845 d. unknown married Charles Albert Coffin of Fairfield, Maine... they eventually moved to NY)

Ezekiel and Louisa were married May 28, 1836 in Wilbraham, MA.

She was the daughter of Elisha Billings and his second wife, Mrs. Mary (Storrs) Hovey. She had one full sister, Mary Williams Billings (married Rev. Robert O Dwight, Rev. Myron Winslow) and 3 half siblings through father and his first wife, Elizabeth Williams: Henry Percy (married Emilia Hitchcock), Louisa (died 1782-1795 age 13), Elisha (1785-???). Also had a half brother through Mary Storrs' first marriage to Joseph Hovey: Sylvester (listed in "The Storrs Family" as "A Professor in Amherst College")

"To complete the picture of his [Henry Williams Billings] early home I must not overlook the two children born of the grandfather's second marriage, Louisa Storrs Billings and Mary Williams Billings. [...] "Aunt Louisa" had been an assistant teacher in Mary Lyon's school in Buckland, where her sister Mary and her cousin Juresha Billings had been pupil-teachers. Her daughter Carrie is the wife of Mr. Charles A. Coffin, of New York, the president of the General Electric Company"

(History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Volume 6. Section: Annual Meeting -- 1916 Report, which has a section detailing the life of Louisa's nephew Henry Williams Billings)

"Dr. Russell [her husband] was married, July 13, 1836" to Louisa Storrs Billings, of Conway, Mass., daughter of Elisha Billings, Esq. and Mary Storrs. She died March 18, 1887. He had one son, who died in childhood, and two daughters."

(Necrology by Andover Theological Seminary, Section: Class of 1835, in the subsection concerning Ezekiel Russell)

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