She was the child of Wade R Frizzell b.1857 and Mary Ann Decker b.1860 .

My brother David and I have been trying to find out more about her siblings, but have not been able to find out anymore than 2 known sisters,Ida and Lora who were born abt.1890 time frame,probably in the same area and township.I had had found info of another sister Sarah,

 

The children of Wade Frizzell and Mary Ann Decker :

Hattie M Frizzell -Aug.27,1888

Ida Frizzell b.abt.1890

Lora Frizzell b.abt 1890

Sarah E Frizzell b.abt 1894

 

Her parents were married Sept 26,1878-in Putnam Co.,Ohio.

I think their might have been more children, but I have not completed my hunt for them.My journey will be ongoing for these other unknown members.

 

There is a great deal that is unknown about Hattie's years as a young girl.We believe she lived on farm,as many people in the area. She may have had a happy life in Putnam County on the farm. But there aren't any realiatives to pass on anymore old family tales, and no one wrote them down, if she had told of her life.What most of our family knows of Hattie ,she told us herslef.

As those of us talk about Hattie and her early life, we get the feeling she just wanted to go forward from her mid-20's and to current times.

She may have told my mom(Wiladean Beverly Smith) a tale or two about growing up at the turn of the Century,and living on a farm and all of the changes in history she was witnesing first hand.

But life for Hattie M FRIZZELL before the early 1920's in Ft.Wayne,Ind. is nearly lost to our family stories and first hand info. 

 

She met and married  Joseph Russett. He also lived in Palmer Twp.,Putnam Co,perhaps  he had  lived just a farm or two over.His family  attended  the St Joseph's Catholic Church in the area they lived,in Northcreek, Putnam Co. Hattie had been raised Methodist Episcopal ,so her marrying into a strict Catholic family might have been the root of her unhappiness in her marriage to Joseph RUSSETT.And then again perhaps she was too fiesty for Joseph Russett .

His family was from Germany(Wittenberg) and had arrived as the 2nd generation of immigrants to the New World in the 1850's.Perhaps his being strict Catholic,and his rules  was more than Hattie could follow.

 

Hattie M FRIZZELL and Joseph RUSSETT married in about 1908.(I'm still searching for the exact date and which County.Putnam Co.,Henry Co. or Defiance Co.)

 

Hattie and husband,Joseph, lived with his parents John RUSSETT and Katherine MORAN in Defiance Co.according to the  1910-Ohio Census,Defiance Co.. She and Joseph only had one child,my grandmother Helen Catherine Russett born June 16,1909-in Highland Twp,Defiance Co,Ohio . 

 

I do not know how long Hattie and Jospeh actually lived together as man and wife, the only thing that is known is that Hattie and her young daughter came to Ft.Wayne,Ind. some time in the early 1920's. Hattie got a job, and worked as a house cleaner. Eventually she would meet and be marry Frank Powell .

 

We do know that she did not officially divorce Jospeh Russett since he was Catholic, but that she and he did not live as husband and wife for several years.He eventually died March 30,1956-in Palmer Twp.,Putnam Co.,Ohio .He is buried next to his parents.

 

Sometime in the mid twenties she meet Frank Powell and they ran a boarding house together in Ft.Wayne,Ind.

 

The only thing I do know about Hatties younger life is she and Frank Powell were very happy together. She and Frank never had children together.

During the years of  the early 1940's ,about 1947 ,Hatties daughter Helen Catherine Russett had brought her younger 3 children to live with her and Frank at their boarding house.

Helen's 3 older boys, Bobby,Don and Frank were old enough to join the military during the time of  WWII..So the younger 3 , Mary,Bill and Willie spent a great deal of time with their grandmother Hattie.

 

*I am hoping to add more info about Hattie that I might be able to get from my Uncle Bill and Aunt Linda,who is married to Uncle Don. There are only 2 remaining children of Helen,and grand-children of Hattie by 2002.

 

The story is different  I go to count the great-grandchildren,and great-great grandchildren of Hattie before she passed away as well as doing a tally of the decendants from Hattie M Frizzell-Russett-Powell.

Hattie only had her daughter Helen,but Helen had 6 children that lived to marry, and their were many children born from my family line.

Hattie had 1-Daughter, and 6 Grand-children

Hattie had 33 -Great -grandchildren,and 66 Great-Great grandchildren. Most of these children had at least met Hattie before she went to her final rest in 1975.