Hilda Caroline Oberg
Martin Rheinhold Wallentin Russell
Martin “Pops” Russell was born in Sweden on February 14, 1868, and is the oldest of Nel Russell’s four children. Read about how the family came to have this English last name in How our Swedish Ancestors Came to be Named Russell. Martin was 11 years old when his family immigrated to the U.S. in […]
How Our Swedish Ancestors Came To Be Named “Russell”
The Russell and Oberg families immigrated to the U.S. around the same time: The Russells in 1879 The Obergs (spelled Åberg in the old country of Sweden) in 1887. The Russell Family In 1943, Martin Reinhold Wallentin Russell wrote down the story of the name Russell, and related more of the story to the author, […]