The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
DEATH CALLS.
And Mrs. Mary [. Rus
sell is no More.
She Lived the Life of a Christian and
Met Death without Fear.

Met DeGIn w 1InOuL Il eur.
Entered into rest on September 10th,
1895. Mrs. Mary L. Russell. aged 73
years.
In her death there departed from
among us a woman of pure heart and
capacious intellect. To friends no
one could have been more loyal than
she was to hers, or, in an hour of per-
plexity a wiser counselor. From in
fancy to advanced age, as daughter.
wife, mother and neighbor she dis
charged every duty. No acrid speech
or bitter reproach ever escaped her
lips or found Judgement in her bosom.
Her liberation and charity we're as
wide extended as humanity. Every i'll
of life that befell her was met undaunt-
edly, and whatever else was the result
she emerged truer and a more chris
tion woman. She had much of which
to be proud. She had an ancestry
which, on the paternal side, for gen.
erations was justly distinguished for
culture and successful management of
great affairs. Her father, Joseph
Frizzell, was of French descent,
though his place of nativity was New
Hampshire. He was educated, and for
many years resided in Boston: he af-
terwards moved West and was a sue
cessful merchant in st. Louis and
Jackson. He was master of several
languages, and spoke them fiuently
without perceptible accent. His busi-
ness letters now in possession of his
family show them to be the production
of an alert and cultivated business
man, and deserve publication. He
died at .an early age but left a
handsome provision for his family.
Mrs Russell's mother was woman
of large mental endowments, and re-
ceived an education bestowed upon
but few young women in America in
the first years of this century, and was
gifted with a remarkable talent for
painting. She was educated at Salem,
North Carolina, at which point, at one
time was located the most celebrated
female school in this country.
Mary L, Frizzellwas born July 18th,
1872, and in her early childhood was
baptised by the Rev. Benjamin Har-
roll the first Episcopal minister who
found his way into Missouri. and
through all her life was devoted
of that church. In her early
girlhood she was sent to a female
school at Bethel, Penn, to be educa-
ted, where she remained until she was
and where she imbibed a
love for literature, which remained
with her and which love she INDUCED
far into the period of her last long
fatal illness. Through all her life it
was her rule, not to permit herself to
become so absorbed with her social
or domestic duties, but that she could
devote at least an hour each day to
classic literature. In her maiden hood
she was largely under the tutilage of
her maternal grandfather, Col. Geo.
Frederick Bollinger, a man conspicu-
Gus for ardent patriotism, great force
of character, originality and success
in his Enterprises, and to him his
was indebted for much of
her worldly wisdom. In 1913 she was
to Joseph W Russell of st.
Louis, who was a civil engineer by
profession, man of many accom-
and was a member of
family whose social position was
equal to that of any, a distinction
transmittedthroughmany generations.
Their married life was of but few
years duration, it was severed by the
untimely death of the husband in 1852,
an event which she never ceased to
through 43 years of widowhood.
She was proud woman, that pride
which is born of distinguished ances-
try, of conscious worth and a knowl-
edge that every duty in life is well
done; it was that noble pride that
save the true woman from vulgar
From death she had
to fear, like the faithful SER
want she could say:
Master, thou deliveredst to me five
talents; behold, l have gained besides
them, five talents more. .
Mrs. Russell leaves, besides many
three children to mourn her
Mrs. Martha Sanford, wife
of Hon. Linus Sanford, of Jackson,
No., Mrs. Julia E. Harris, wife of
DR.. S. S. Harris, of Cape Girardeau,
No., and DR.. James w. Russell, of
Birds Point, No.