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William Greenberry Russell, owner of a fine farm of 120 acres in Section 21, Magness Township, first saw the light of day in Walker County, Ga., in May, 1848, and was the son of Stephen and Emenilla (Disheroan) Russell, from the State of Georgia. Stephen Russell’s father was a native of South Carolina, and came to Lonoke County, Ark., in 1851, in which county he and his son (father of William) died in 1880. Mrs. Russell was born in Habersham County, Ga., and died in 1870. She was the mother of ten children, eight of whom are now living, and six of them residents of this county. William Russell was married in 1870 to Eliza Emaline Taggart, of White County, Ark., and who was born in 1852, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Taggart. They are the parents of eight children: Martha Louisa, James M., Elizabeth Emarilla, Thomas Walter, Susan Palastine, Joseph Stephen, Theophilus and Franklin Adolph. He has served as justice of the peace of Magness Township for six years, which office he still retains. He is a member of the Masonic order and was initiated into Cabot Lodge No. 319, and is now a member of Elpara Lodge No. 52, in White County, having represented it in the Grand Lodge of this State three different terms. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In the political world he is a strong Democrat, as were his father and his grandfather before him. He takes great interest in all educational work and in any and all things relative to the welfare of the community in which he lives.