Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell
Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749–1825), a sister of
Following Campbell's death in 1781, she married
Madame Russell is probably more eminent in the Methodist pioneer history of America than any other woman. In Saltville, in 1824, a Methodist church, Elizabeth Church, was dedicated in her name. In 1898 construction was begun on a new Methodist church, located a few feet from the then still standing Russell home. That church, Madam Russell Memorial United Methodist Church, stands today as a monument to Mrs. Russell, the region's earliest religious leader, and to the pioneer Methodist Movement in the Holston Territory of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. In present day Saltville, there now stands a beautiful stone building named 'Madam Russell Methodist Church.' Nearby is a replica of the original log cabin where the Russell's had lived. This is owned by the church. The stone doorstep of the church is said to have been the hearth in the Russell cabin.
— Madam Russell by Gladys Stallard
References
- ^ Terry, Gail S. (2006). "Annie Henry Christian". Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- ^ The History of Seven Mile Ford, Virginia Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- William Russell and his Descendants by Anna Russell des Cognets, Lexington, KY, 1884.
- William Russell: a Revolutionary patriot of the Clinch Valley by Mary Katherine Thorp, Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1936.
- Madam Russell Methodist Church, https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluebird218/3085974050/.
- Madam Russell by Gladys Stallard
- Saltville by Jeffrey C. Weaver
- "Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell: Champion of Faith in the Early Republic" by John Kukla, Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times--Volume 1
- Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America by John H. Wigger