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- The Official and Statistical Registoer of the State of Mississippi
George Washington Russell (Picture included)
George Washington Russell of Hazlehurst. Representative from Copiah County, was born November 14, 1879, near Monticello, in Lawrence County, Mississippi. His father, Fletcher Russell, was born near Birmingham, Alabama, where he lived until about ten years of age, when he removed to Louisiana. It was while he was living in that state that the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted and served two years as a private in the Confederate army. After the war he removed to Mississippi. He was the son of James A. and Sarah A. (Moore) Russell. George Washington Russell?s mother was Sallie Elizabeth Bass, the daughter of James Bass. Representative Russell obtained his education in the public school of Shady Grove, Copiah County, and in the Hazlehurst High School. He has passed his entire life on his farm, three miles east of Hazlehurst, with the exception of two years that he spent in Jackson as representative of the Farmers? Educational and Co-operative Union. Mr. Russell was one of the first to join that organization, and he was its first local and first county Secretary-Treasurer. On March 13, 1906, he was selected Secretary-Treasurer for the State, in which office he served for four years with great credit to himself and with the most excellent results for the Union. Mr. Russell has had considerable business experience. For several years he traveled as collector and salesman for a fertilizer house; he was an incorporator and secretary of the Executive Board of the Memphis Cotton Company of Memphis, Tennessee; was a member of the Executive Board of the Farmers? Union Warehouse (Cotton) Company, of Jackson, Mississippi; and was, during 1908, editor and manager of the Union Advocate. When the people of his County sought to find a representative who should unite the qualities of a successful farmer and an able business man, they naturally selected Mr. Russell as nominee. He was elected to serve from 1916 to 1920, and has already done good work upon several of the important committees. Mr. Russell has long been a leader in church and community work. In 1888 he united with the Methodist Church, and in 1915 joined the Baptist Church at Damascus. He has been Secretary of the Shady Grove Sunday School for fifteen years, and a trustee of the school ever since he joined it. He is a member of the Knights of Phythias and the Woodmen of the World. The maiden name of Mr. Russell?s wife was Lena Pearl Price; she is the daughter of Tom C. and Lula Norman Price, of Hazlehurst. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have three children: Louise Elizabeth; Price Bass; and Wayne Collins.
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 27 Jan 1948 (Age 94 years)