Roy Drayton Russell

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San Augustine Tribune

Thursday, October 20, 2005

San Augustine History 1929 by Harry P. Noble

November 1929

Roy Russell (30), a well-to-do Milam farmer, was stabbed in the lower stomach on the Hemphill courthouse steps by his nephew, Al HOLBERT (Halbert?), and died a few minutes later. According to M.S. MORRIS, an eyewitness, the stabbing grew out of an arguement over a pair of mules. After the stabbing, Ran Russell, a brother to Roy, attacked Holbert, but Holbert made his escape through the crowd. However, Holbert was soon found and arrested but since he had received several deep cuts on the neck and face he was taken to a hospital where he was kept under close guard.

Roy married Vergie Lorena Halbert before 1924. Vergie (daughter of William Washington "Dick" Halbert, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Smith) was born on 4 Nov 1905 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 18 Sep 1991 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Halbert Cemetery (Joel Halbert Cemetery / Fox Hill Cemetery), Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The San Augustine Tribune
July 15, 1999, page 3

R. D. Russell

R. D. Russell, 75, of Pineland died July 12 at his residence.

[Note: The SSDI shows, apparently in error, his DOD as 1 July 1999)

Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 15, 1999 at Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill with burial at Joel Halbert Cemetery in Milam.

A lifelong resident of Sabine County, he was a retired Temple Inland supervisor and a World War II Navy veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Russell of Pineland; sons, Chris Russell of Lufkin and Roy David Russell of Milam; daughters Melinda Russell of Lufkin and Melissa Bradberry of Pineland; brother Julius Nethery of Center, and eight grandchildren.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, June 2011)

Roy married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]