{"id":94,"date":"2015-03-27T01:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-01-09T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:28:08","slug":"william-jennings-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"William Jennings Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cropped-williamjenningsrussell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10\" src=\"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cropped-williamjenningsrussell-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-williamjenningsrussell.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cropped-williamjenningsrussell-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cropped-williamjenningsrussell-751x1024.jpg 751w, http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cropped-williamjenningsrussell.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have been wondering who that man is over on the side, his name is William Jennings Russell. \u00a0Russell Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina is named after his family. \u00a0North Carolina&#8217;s colonial government had purchased land from his great-grandfather&#8217;s estate for the town that has become Fayetteville.<\/p>\n<p>William Jennings Russell was born in 1814 in Cumberland County, North Carolina to William Russell who was the son of John Russell. \u00a0John Russell was a &#8230; Tory; and his father was Capt John Russell, commander of the HMS Scorpion, which explains John&#8217;s loyalty to Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>William Jennings Russell was married twice. \u00a0His second wife was Margaret Mahaldy Clark. \u00a0Together they had four children: \u00a0Charles Henry, Emma Delilah, John Benton and Leonidas Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1840s and 50s, he built boats. \u00a0One of the ones he built was a steamer named the John Dawson. \u00a0In the 1860s, there wasn&#8217;t as much call for his boat building skills, but he continued finding work as a carpenter and then switched his focus to railroad cars.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret died in 1868. \u00a0William died several years later in 1871. \u00a0Charles and Emma were their surviving children. \u00a0They went to live with one of Margaret&#8217;s sisters and her husband. \u00a0Margaret is buried at Cross Creek Cemetery in Fayetteville. \u00a0Most likely William is also, but his grave is unmarked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been wondering who that man is over on the side, his name is William Jennings Russell. \u00a0Russell Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina is named after his family. \u00a0North Carolina&#8217;s colonial government had purchased land from his great-grandfather&#8217;s estate for the town that has become Fayetteville. William Jennings Russell was born in 1814 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Jennings Russell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-russell-family","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}