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JOSEPH BERNARD RUSSELBURG MARRIED FRANCES LUCILLE BRADDOCK ON NOV. 23, 1927 AT ST. AGNES CHURCH IN UNIONTOWN, KY. THEY LIVED IN UNIONTOWN UNTIL JULY 1928 WHEN BERNARD WENT TO MICHIGAN TO LOOK FOR A JOB. LUCILLE WENT TO JOIN BERNARD IN MICHIGAN IN SEPT 1928. THEY LIVED IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN WHERE AGNES PATRICIA WAS BORN ON APRIL 3, 1929. THEN THEY MOVED BACK TO UNIONTOWN, KY. IN THE FALL OF 1929, TO WHAT WAS THEN CALLED "THE RIVER BOTTOMS". HERE THEY HAD 4 MORE CHILDREN...JAMES RICHARD, RITA EVELYN, BERNARD RONALD, & JOSEPH DONALD. JAMES RICHARD DIED ON DEC. 21, 1932.
IN JAN. 1937 BERNARD & LUCILLE'S HOME WAS FLOODED, SO THEY WERE EVACUATED FROM THEIR HOME. BERNARD WENT TO MT. VERNON, INDIANA TO CARE FOR THEIR LIVESTOCK, WHILE LUCILLE WAS TAKEN TO MORGANFIELD, KY. WITH HER 4 CHILDREN.(THREE OF THE CHILDREN WERE VERY SMALL... 1-1YR.2MONTHS & TWINS -3MONTHS OLD). LUCILLE AND HER 4 CHILDREN CAME ON A BOAT WITH ONE PIECE OF FURNITURE (A CEDAR CHEST-WHICH CONTAINED SUPPLIES FOR HER CHILDREN).
AFTER ARRIVING IN MORGANFIELD AT THE SHELTER AREA,CONCERNED PEOPLE HELPED LUCILLE FIND A TEMPORARY HOME FOR HERSELF AND THE 4 CHILDREN. JOHN M. SYERS TOOK THEM TO HIS PARENTS. THEY MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH DORA SIGLER NEXT DOOR TO LET THEM STAY IN HER BOARDING HOUSE WHERE THEY STAYED FOR ABOUT 7 WEEKS. AFTER THE FLOOD WENT DOWN, BERNARD & LUCILLE & THEIR 4 CHILDREN RETURNED TO THEIR HOME IN UNIONTOWN, KY. WHERE THEY HAD 3 MORE CHILDREN...MARILYN JEAN, MARY YVONNE, AND DELPHIN THOMAS.
SHORTLY AFTER DELPHIN WAS BORN ON JUNE 16, 1941 THEY MOVED INTO THEIR BRAND NEW HOME THAT BERNARD & OTHER FRIENDS HAD BUILT ON A HILL NEAR WHAT IS KNOWN AS HENSHAW, KY. THEY SETTLED ON A 172 ACRE FARM. HERE THEY HAD 8 MORE CHILDREN....CLETUS AUGUSTINE, PHYLLIS ANN, PHILIP HERSHEL, JUANITA ROSE, GLEN STEPHEN, AUDREY ELAINE, DIANNA KAY & MERLE ANDREW. ALL OF THESE CHILDREN ACCEPT 1 (ELAINE) WERE BORN IN THEIR HOME NEAR HENSHAW, KY. ELAINE WAS BORN AT OUR LADY OF MERCY HOSPITAL IN MORGANFIELD, KY. BERNARD WORKED IN THE MINES AROUND A YEAR. IN MICIGAN HE WORKED AT CADILLACS AND A MOTOR PRODUCTS PLACE. THE REST OF THE TIME HE FARMED UNTIL HE RETIRED IN NOV. 1968. ON THEIR 172 ACRE FARM THEY RAISED THEIR 14 CHILDREN AS WELL AS CATTLES, HOGS, HORSES, CHICKENS, DOGS AND CATS. BERNARD BOUGHT HIS FARM AT HENSHAW FROM ALF JOHNS ON JULY 11, 1941.
JOSEPH BERNARD RUSSELBURG BORN AUG. 27, 1903 UNIONTOWN, KY. DIED APRIL 16, 2003 AT HIS HOME IN HENSHAW, KY.
MARRIED FRANCES LUCILLE BRADDOCK NOV. 23, 1927 UNIONTOWN, KY. LUCILLE WAS BORN NOV. 1, 1912 UNIONTOWN, KY.