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MOSHER Family History, Part V

Mariah (MOSHER REED POOLE) RUSSELL⁵ (~1804->1860)

1DBI1. Mariah (Maria) Mosher⁵ was born around 1804 or 1805 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She first married Israel Reed (Sr.), ostensibly her second cousin, around September 14, 1824, in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. They had four sons before Israel's death around 1841. The following year Mariah married Jacob Poole (Sr.)³ on May 22, 1842, in Dartmouth.^[Dartmouth] He had seven surviving children, all of whom were grown except for the two youngest who were 12 and 17 years old. Mariah and Jacob had three more chiildren before his death in 1848. By 1850, a Russell family was enumerated with hers and in 1854 John R. Russell was widowed, reportedly with an 8-year-old son. The following year Mariah and John married on January 25, 1855, in Dartmouth. All together, Mariah had seven children and seven stepchildren:

Mariah (recorded as "Meriah") and Israel filed their intention to marry in Dartmouth on September 14, 1842.^[Dartmouth] She and Israel were apparently second cousins going back to their great-grandfather Constant Mosher².

Israel Reed (Sr.) died around 1841 while in his late 30s.

Mariah remarried to Jacob Poole (Sr.) on May 22, 1842, in Dartmouth. Her boys were between the ages of 6 and 15 and his children were around the ages of 12, 22, and 27.

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Jacob Poole (Sr.) died on March 2, 1848, only four months after the birth of his daughter. He was also buried at Linden Grove Cemetery.^[Grave]

After Jacob's death, Mariah and John Russell were found in the 1850 census with "Mariah Pool" named as the head of household, age 45. With her were enumerated her four Reed sons, Wilson, Isaac M., Israel, and John L., ages 14 through 24. The elder three were identified as sailors. Next were listed Susan M., Jacob, and Caroline Pool, ages 2 through 7. And lastly came John Russell, a laborer of the age of about 30; Stephen Russell, age 55, also a laborer; and Drusilla Russell, age 29. Stephen is held to be John's father. John's son John T. was not enumerated with the family.^{[Cen 1850]}

Mariah and John R. Russell were married on January 25, 1855, in Dartmouth, by Justice of the Peace William Barker, Jr. John was reportedly widowed a year earlier, having been married to Caroline E. Cummings for six years. Mariah was 48 years old and John was 35.^[Dartmouth]

The Massachusetts state census of 1855 further recorded the newly wedded Russell couple with Mariah, age 51, and John, age 35. With them were Susan M., Jacob, and Carolina Pool, ages 8 through 12; and John L. Reed, a 20-year-old mariner. They were enumerated following the household of "Abiathar Pool," Mariah's elder stepson.^{[Cen 1855]} Abiathar's wife Emily Ann was also a Reed.

Mariah, John, and the three Poole children all migrated to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1859. They arrived in the bustling gold mining town of Coulterville, Mariposa County, California on October 19, 1859, and that night a great fire that razed the town.

In 1860, the family lived in Coulterville where John worked as a teamster. Son Jacob, then 16 years old, lived next-door with Charles Allen and three other men, all of whom worked as teamsters. Jacob worked as a farmer.^{[Cen 1860]}

After 1860, son Jacob died and was said to be the first to be buried in the Dudley family cemetery. Both Susan and Caroline married and Mariah and John were no longer recorded. What became of them is unknown. They were said to be 55 and 40 years old in 1860.

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