Family History

            3. AnnEllen Russell
            b: April 13, 1867 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
              d: October 2, 1927 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; age 60 (see notes below)
                burial: Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: block 17, section B, Lot 453; Grave 2
(notes on AnnEllen Russell: Lived in Milwaukee; couple had 12 births, 11 mature children; widowed father Peter Paul Russell was living with the family in 1910 in Milwaukee;  AnnEllen died following the drowning death of her youngest son, Francis, at the Eagle's Club pool in Milwaukee., age 60.)
            + Francis "Frank" Wren - husband of AnnEllen Russell
                b: May 9, 1859 in NY
             married: June 19, 1887  in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
                d: March 14, 1934 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
                burial: Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(notes on Frank Wren: Frank Wren's widowed father, Patrick Wren 1815 - 1889, is buried in  Oconto Catholic Cemetery, in

Please click on image for a larger view MaryAgnes Russell with friend Miss Looz photo contibuted by AnnEllen Barr
Please click on image for a larger view c: 1910 MaryAgnes Russell a member of the Stout State College, Womans Gymnastics Team Menominie, Wisconsin photo contibuted by AnnEllen Barr
Please click on image for a larger view Peter Paul Russell and Agnes Nettles Marriage October 26, 1899 photo contibuted by AnnEllen Barr

Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin)

            4. Margaret Edna Russell
          b: 1869  in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
        d: January 19, 1946 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
              burial: Little Suamico Cemetery, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on Margaret Edna Russell: Sometimes prefered using Edna as her first name; Married at age 25, widowed at age 26; raised on child, a son; Lived with son Donald in Wausaukee Village, Marinette County in 1910, Santa Clara, California with son in 1920, alone in San Rafael, California in 1930, with son and his family in Cook County, Illinois in 1940; did not remarry)
           + Franz Joseph Bergman - husband of Margaret Edna Russell
                b: July 1, 1856 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
                occupation: Master Brewer
                marriage: November 28, 1894 in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
               d: November 27, 1895 in Wells, Delta County, Michigan
                burial: Little Suamico Cemetery, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            5. Gertrude Minerva Russell
        b: August 10, 1871  in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
          d: April 21, 1961 in Wausaukee, Marinette County, Wisconsin
                burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Wausaukee, Wisconsin
(notes on Gertrude Russell: the couple had 7 children)
           + Amos Charles Christ
              b: March 1868 in Marquette, Michigan
                occupation: 1930 General Merchant in Wausaukee
              marriage: July 16, 1895 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin (St. Joseph Church)
            d: 1958 in Wausaukee, Marinette County, Wisconsin
                burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Wausaukee, Wisconsin
            6. Bridget Rosetta Russell
                b: October 6, 1874  in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
          d: February 7, 1960 in Mantowoc, Wisconsin
                burial: Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Cemetery in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
(notes on Bridget Rosetta Russell: She joined the Order of St. Francis Sisters of Charity and became Sister Mary Austin Russell O.S.F.; in 1913 she lived in Cambridge, Ohio)
       7. MaryAgnes Russell
            b: May 19, 1878  in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
                d: December 3, 1954 in San Rafael, California
                burial: Dominican Cemetery, San Rafael, California
(notes on MaryAgnes Russell: She joined the Dominican Order of Preachers - Sisters of San Rafael, California, and became Sister Inez O.P.; she had attended Stout State College, in Menominie, Wisconsin, majoring in Domestic Sciences in the early 1900s; in 1913 she was living in Oakland, California)
            8. Eva Teressa Russell
              b: July 20, 1882 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
                d: November 27, 1893 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
                burial: Oconto Catholic Cemetery, in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
+ Agnes Mulvany - wife #3 of Peter P. Russell
    b: March 1, 1849 in Ireland
    marriage: (Her second was to Peter P. Russell) October 13, 1889 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin
    d: October 26, 1899
(note on Agnes Mulvany Nettles Russell: Agnes had 5 Nettles children, 4 living at the time of her marriage to Peter P. Russell, Peter and Agnes had no children together.)

Generation 2 in Oconto

As a girl of age 13 in 1880, Ann Ellen Russell did this piece while a student (probably 8th grade). It has 13 flesh-tined shades in the petipoint of the face of the

Christ Child. In 1944, her daughter, Genevieve Wren Sass, took it to Marshall Field & Co in Chicago to be properly framed and sealed. At the time they offered to purchase the piece but it was far too precious to the family as an heirloom. Up until this point it had benn in a bos in th attic of Ann Ellen Russell Wren's home in Milwaukee, Wi. Unframed and esposed to light and air, it had deteriorated rapidly. The original background was black but has faded. Genevieve Sass wanted to be certain it was preserved so had it specially framed.

When Genevieve Sass was moving to a retirement apartment, she asked her daughter, Ann Ellen Sass Barr, named for Ann Ellen Russell, if she would like to have the piece. It is very precious due to its provenance and it is my hope that it will be carefully preserved for our family when I am no longer here to care for it.

Ann Ellen RUSSELL (1867 - 1927) did needlework throughout her life making many of the altar cloths for St. Joseph's and then for St. Thomas Aquinas in Milwaukee after they moved there. Despite 12 children, she was always busy doing crochet work using the big pocket in her apron to contain her items in progress.

.RUSSELL.