Russel (Jennings), Minerva, Oct 1893-Sep 1903

File — Box: 8, Folder: 15

Identifier: 15

Scope and Contents

Correspondence to Minerva Phelps-Russell-Jennings that is arranged chronologically. Minerva married John Hooe Russell shortly after his first wife, Nettie, died on 26 Nov 1895. Minerva and Netties were cousins and Minerva was at the deathbed of both her cousin Nettie and John Hooe Russell Jr. She married Russell on 8 May 1901 and he later died within a year of the arrival of their first son, Albert Lacy Russell. After a mourning period Minerva then married Frank Jennings, a Floridian lawyer and politician.