My Genealogy Hound

Rev. James Polasky Russell, pastor of Mount Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was born in East Tennessee, March 13, 1834, and was the son of George and Mary (Wallace) Russell, of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The father of James was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was also a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He died in Washington County in 1840. His wife was born in 1813 and died in 1838, leaving three children, two of whom are still living: James P. and a sister. J. P. Russell received his early education at Cane Hill College, Washington County, Ark., and in 1854 went to Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., where he graduated in 1858, taking the degree of A. B. and a course in systematic theology. He was ordained the same year by the Lebanon Presbytery. He has followed teaching and other avocations since he began preaching, but for nine years has been engaged exclusively in the ministry. In January, 1859, he was married to Miss Amanda L. Morrow, who was born in Washington County, Ark., February 8, 1836. They are the parents of eleven children, ten of whom are now living: George B., Loretta A. (wife of J. P. Edmiston), Samuel A., Mary Jane, Julia E., Polosky M., Alta, Robert I., Alfred W., Florence J. He moved to Pulaski County, in 1865, and in 1887 to Lonoke County. He resides on a farm two miles south of Cabot, which contains 187 acres of land, eighty acres being under cultivation.