Eleanor Heady (Guthrie) Russell
b. Spencer Co., KY, Wife of a TX Veteran, A Devoted Wife & Mother, A Lover of Justice. Member of the Methodist Church for Sixty years. The mother of twelve children & against none of them was her hand ever raised in Anger. The Storms of life could ne'er undo her faith---So Steadfast her Belief. ---Stillwell H. Russell
6/15/1813-3/22/1890

(Eleanor Heady Russell, daughter of Stillwell Heady, married Nathan Guthrie in KY & came to TX in Austin 's Colony in 1830. Mr. Guthrie died & early in 1832, Eleanor was married to Capt. William Jarvis Russell. She has been mentioned as the most notable woman of early Texas by many historians, for it was she who molded the bullets used by Capt. Russell & his company of men who released William B. Travis & other colonists held in prison at Anahuac by Mexican soldiers. Her molded bullets were also used at the Battles of Velasco & San Jacinto. It was she & Mrs. Josiah Bell who tended the wounded Gen Sam Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto.)

Darling Little Hulda E. Berovist
daughter of J & M Berovist
10/28/1879-(1881)