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| Text | [Notations in brackets and italics are updating revisions to the original email by J.D..] It is definitely the case that Charles Elmer Russell and Caroline Elizabeth Russell both died while they were living in Brookhaven, despite the fact that Charles Russell was a Missourian and Caroline was born in Illinois. The articles in the South Side Signal (Babylon) clearly show that both resided in Brookhaven at the times of their deaths. Caroline died on 30 Jul 1914 and Charles died almost a year later, on 10 Jul 1915. [They are both interred in the Oaklawn Cemetery, Brookhaven, NY, Plot #66] The Russell family had lived in Brookhaven only after 1900, having moved to the community sometime between 1900 and 1910. In 1900 the family was living on Lydia Avenue in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, but in the 1910 Census, they were renting a house on Beaver Dam Road (known as Brookhaven Avenue in 1910) very near Locust Avenue. Charles Elmer Russell was either a jeweler or a jewelry merchant (or both). He was born in January 1841 in Jefferson City, Missouri, while his father was born in New Jersey and his mother in Ohio. Caroline Elizabeth Price was born in Illinois about October 1849. (Her age may actually be greater than shown in the 1900 Census, so she may have been born as early as 1846 as shown on the cemetery list, or as early as 1844 as shown by her age at death in the South Side Signal -- 70 years. In 1880 Carrie was 6 years younger than her husband, in 1900, 9 years younger, and in 1910, 11 years younger, so Charles seems to have aged considerably more quickly than his wife. The maiden name is correct on the cemetery list. In the 1850 Census she was four years old, so she was probably born in 1845 or 1846. If so, then her age at death, 70, in Jul 1914, is too high, and the date on the list, 1846, is more likely correct.) Charles and Caroline had married about 1872 in Illinois, probably in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, as that is where their first child was born. Mrs. Russell sometimes went by the nickname “Carrie.” As a young child, she was usually known by her middle name. Although she was born in Illinois, her father was born in North Carolina and her mother in Virginia. Her father, George Barnabas Price, was a printer. Her mother was Mary Caroline (Atkins) Price, and they were living in Carrollton, Illinois, in November 1850. In 1860, her father was the editor of the Carrollton Gazette and her half-brother, Thomas, was the post master. The Price family had lived in New York around 1836-1838, as two of Caroline Elizabeth Price’s half-siblings were born in New York, Thomas D. and Emily Ann. Charles Elmer Russell was the son of Charles E. Russell, a physician, who was born about 1810 in New Jersey, and Louisa, born about 1813 in Ohio. In 1850 he and his parents and siblings were living in St. Louis. His older brother (or, perhaps, half-brother), Walter S. Russell, was a printer and was born in Ohio. The Russells had three children: Emily C., born June 1874, Elizabeth Caroline, born November 1876, also in Illinois, and Alice Marie, born October 1878 in Kansas City, Missouri. Elizabeth Caroline (sometimes known as “Bessie”) was actually had the same name as her mother, Caroline Elizabeth, but, perhaps to avoid confusion, her name often appears with her middle name first. In 1910, Emily (sometimes spelled “Emilie”), age 25, was a vocal teacher, Elizabeth, age 23, was a violin teacher, and Alice Marie, age 21, was a kindergarten teacher. The eldest daughter, Emilie, married Raymond Perry, “artist, illustrator and production manager of Superman, Inc.” Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Perry lived at 480 Lexington Avenue in New York City, but Emilie did not die at home, she died at Carnegie Hall at age 71 where she was attending a concert. She died 26 Jan 1945. Raymond Perry (1883-1960), born in Sterling, Illinois, was an artist who studied at the American Institute in Chicago and was a member of the American Watercolor Society. Perry did work for numerous magazines. One of his hobbies was playing the cello. He began working for National Allied Publications, the precursor to DC, in the 1930s and went on to work on titles such as Batman, Adventure Comics, and Action Comics. The middle child, Caroline Elizabeth, never married, but did do some traveling; to London in 1923 and to Paris in 1927. After living in Brookhaven, she resided in New Jersey (Edgewater), then lived at 540 West 123rd Street in NYC 1927, and was living in Verona, New Jersey in 1945. She was born on 04 Nov 1876 in Carrollton, Illinois. The youngest daughter, Alice Marie, was born on 24 Oct 1879 in Kansas City, Missouri. She married DeWitt Clinton Peters, the portrait artist. Having the same name as his father, he always went by the name “Clinton” so when his first name appears, which it rarely does, it sometimes is given incorrectly as his middle name. His father was a civil war surgeon. Clinton Peters was born 11 Jun 1865 in Baltimore, Maryland, although both his parents were born in New York. Clinton and Alice made regular trips to Europe for “study and recreation.” Clinton Peters also was an art teacher. As Clinton Peters married Adele Bacon in 1890, he must have married Alice Marie Russell after a divorce. Adele Bacon Peters died 22 May 1941 in Miami, Florida. She and Clinton had three children together, Margaret Elizabeth (“Betty”), Carol (some say “Ruth”), and John, before they divorced and he remarried. Clinton Dewitt Peters (1865 -1948) was born at the army hospital in Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, MD. Peters studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, France from 1886 to 1888. At the age of 23 he was awarded a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1888, 1889, and 1891. He exhibited at the Societe des Beaux-Arts from 1894 to 1896, the National Academy of Design in 1899, and the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. Peters lived and worked in Paris, Baltimore, New York and Connecticut, and was a prominent and talented portrait painter. His work is at City Hall and the Boy's School in Baltimore, at Yale, Harvard and Rutgers Universities, and the Historical Society and High School of Albany, New York. He was one of the first "Profiles" subjects in the New Yorker magazine. Peters illustrations appeared in Tutti Fruitti; Children of the Week; Madame Daulnoy's Fairy Stories; St. Nicholas; Harper's, Young People, Wide Awake, and New York Life. _____________________________________________________ Dewitt Clinton Peters, Jr. was born in Baltimore, MD. His father was Lt. Col. DeWitt Clinton Peters, Army Surgeon. Clinton Peters studied art at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in New York City. In Paris he studied under Jean-Leon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won a bronze medal for a portrait of his doctor at the 1889 Paris Exposition. He also exhibited in Berlin, London and Chicago. In 1890 Peters married Adele Bacon, who was a cousin to the Whittemores of Middlebury and Naugatuck. During the 1920s, he taught weekend art classes at the Clinton Peters Studio School for Art Classes. Peters specialized in portraits, although he also worked as an illustrator for children’s books and magazines. He spent the last years of his life in Connecticut. It is clear from the 1910 Census that the Russell family lived between the Burnett’s and the Booths on Beaver Dam Road. (The enumeration goes: Francis Burnett, widow; Chauncey Swezey, the Russells, Robert Albin, Charles Booth and his brother Erastus H. Booth, and Rachel DeArcas.) [The E. Belcher Hyde Map, © 1915, does not record their residence. Caroline died 1914, Charles died 1915. While a bit surprising that E. Belcher Hyde updated their map so quickly, I suppose it's possible.] I don’t know why the Russell family moved from Kansas City in 1900 (where everything was up to date) to rural Long Island sometime before 1910. As they rented, there would be no land record indicating the date of their move. [A single handwritten manuscript at the Town of Brookhaven Historian's office records their interment in the David Hawkins family cemetery. This manuscript is said to have been prepared in the late 1930s.] And I don’t know why they would have been buried in the David Hawkins cemetery on Little Neck in South Haven, if they were. [No association with the Hawkins family has been found; consensus among local historians is that the manuscript is likely in error.] Both Raymond Perry, of Superman Inc., and Clinton Peters, the artist and art teacher, seem to have been prosperous enough to have financed moving the bodies to some cemetery more convenient for the sisters if they had desired it, but there is no record available on the internet indicating that they did, but according to the web, Charles Elmer and Caroline Elizabeth are now buried in Oaklawn. [Records of the Oaklawn cemetery give no indication that the were previously interred elsewhere.] The Patchogue Advance for 30 Jul 1914 and 10 Jul 1915 might have obituaries for Charles and Carrie. Richard | |
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Adele Bacon De Witt Clinton Peters, [ii] Dr DeWitt Clinton Peters, Sr Margaret Elizabeth Peters Caroline Elizabeth Price, ^ Alice Marie Russell, < Caroline Elizabeth Russell, ^ Charles Elmer Russell, ^ | |
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Family: De Witt Clinton Peters, [ii] / Adele Bacon | |
