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For Sunday/April 8th: All in the family (in a manner of speaking) Memories of Miss Russell playing violin, Easter, 1920 Muse Clio's sense of humor sometimes exceeds the bounds of my reckoning. With the best of intentions, I sat down to pen an Easter-related article. Clio had other plans. The gentle readers of ColumbiaMagazine will have to make of this what they can. Happy Easter to you and yours.- JIM By Jim The April 7, 1920 News ever so briefly mentioned that as part of the Easter service on Sunday, April 4th at the Columbia Methodist Church, "Mrs. R.V. Bennett and Miss Frances Russell accompanied Mrs. Russell with violins [and] Mrs. Turney rendered a solo very beautifully." "Miss Frances" -- the title by which she is still remembered -- was the daughter of Dr. C.M. Russell and his second wife, the former Angeline Clark of Bowling Green. Young Miss Clark met the widowed Dr. Russell shortly after her arrival in Columbia in the late summer of 1904 as the music teacher for the Lindsey Wilson Training School. A little over a year later, they were made as one on a glorious October morn in 1905. It was she who was accompanied by her daughter and Mrs. Bennett in the above announcement. Not quite two years after Dr. Russell and Miss Clark were wed, his brother, Joseph O., better known as just plain Jo, married another member of the Lindsey Wilson faculty, Miss Jean Duncan, an educator of elocution extraordinaire, late of McHenry, Ky. She came to Columbia in the closing days of 1903 as a charter member of the group selected to teach in the historic first session of the new school. The Mrs. Bennett mentioned was Augusta, wife of Rev. R.V. Bennett, that gentleman having taken the principalship of Lindsey Wilson in the summer of 1918. The soloist, Mrs. Turney (nee Ruby Carpenter), a Tennessean by birth was Mrs. Bennett's widowed sister. A year after the Bennetts arrived, Mrs. Turney came to Columbia as a music instructor at the LWTS. Ere long, the young widow caught the eye of one of Columbia's most prominent business men and just days before the autumnal equinox of 1920, Mrs. Turney became the third Lindsey Wilson teacher claimed as a bride by a member of clan Russell. On the evening of September 17th, in a quiet ceremony performed on the Training School campus by her brother-in-law, Mrs. Turney became the third wife of J.O. "Mr. Olie" Russell of Russell & Co. fame and an uncle of the aforementioned C.M. & Jo Russell. Compiled by JIM This story was posted on 2012-04-08 05:22:04
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