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(Abt 1811 - 1884)
In the same letter, Lucy wrote about Sally – another granddaughter of James & Caty and daughter of Thompson. “Your Uncle Thompson Ware’s daughter, Sally Russell, has been as ill as ever any person was, to recover. She had a son and in three weeks was taken ill with child-bed-fever. When her life was despaired of by her physician, Dr. Innis, and every person that beheld her, they sent for Dr. Scott. They kept him three days there. Your Aunt (Polly) Webb went from here last week. She was satisfied that (Sally) would not have lived until morning. When Dr. Scott came, she said it really appeared like raising the dead. Sally was taken with strong convulsion fits in an hour after he got there – which lasted nearly two days; one after another. But before he came away, she began to mend slowly and has been mending ever since. She can now walk about the yard but not entirely come to her reason. I suppose your Aunt Ware (Thompson’s wife Sally) would have been frightened almost to death had not Dr. Scott told them she would be quite childlike – perhaps for two or three months.” (ref. 25) Sally died in 1884. Since the time frame of this letter from Lucy is around 1829, Sally obviously recovered well enough to live many more years.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1811 | Bourbon Co., KY | | | |
| Marriage | 29 May 1827 | Bourbon Co., KY - Robert Spotswood Russell | | | |
| Death | 1884 | | | | |
| Alt name | | "Sallie" | | | |
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