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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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Wild_Thing
Forgot to put in links:
Here is the link for the Russell divorce transcripts. Use the search feature to search for "Cedar" and you'll find it. http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/decisions/ctrdivorce.html
Here is the link for the old directories where I grabbed the screen shots: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/historic-pittsburgh-city-directories
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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Wild_Thing
First, you have to understand that the numbering system changed, so 79 Cedar Ave. became 1004 Cedar Ave. and 80 became 1006. Here is a transcript from the Russell divorce where Maria explains. It is from 1907, but the time period she speaks of is in the late 1800s through early 1900s.
There is other evidence of C.T. and his father, Joseph (and also Emma, Joseph's wife/Maria's sister) all living at those addresses in census records and other historic documents from that time period. It is definitely not CT Russell's boyhood home, but he and his father did own them and they both lived there at various times as married adults. In fact, I believe CT's father, Joseph, died in the 1006 side, but I can't put my fingers on the documentation at the moment.
Here is one screen grab from the 1879 Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, where Joseph and Charles are listed as living in the same place on Cedar. (Obviously, the F is a typo). I can't any reference to a 79 Cedar Street, so I am wondering if they considered both sides the same address back then.
From the 1881 Directory (After both were married):
From the 1882 Directory:
There is still more you can find on your own with enough digging. The house was definitely not build in 1900. I am not sure when it was built (it would be interesting to find out), but I believe the date listed on the real estate listing is either a typo, or just completely wrong.
CT Russell lived at many, many other addresses from what I have found, but I believe this was the one he was living in with Maria with they first married and started the Watch Tower.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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Wild_Thing
Yes the street is sloped, but only slightly. You can see the slope better with the house right next to it in the picture. You can use Google maps to look around. Its prime real estate directly across the street from a beautiful park. I assume it was prime real estate when Russell owned it, too. The Russells were quite wealthy.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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Wild_Thing
Address and more pictures https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1006-Cedar-Ave-Pittsburgh-PA-15212/11388839_zpid/
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated
by Wild_Thing incharles and maria russell lived in one side.
emma russell lived on the other.
emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.
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Wild_Thing
Charles and Maria Russell lived in one side. Emma Russell lived on the other. Emma Russell was Maria's younger sister who married Charles's father. Both sides were renovated in the past year or so. Each side sold for between $400,000 and $500,000. I'll post more pictures below.
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18-Year Old Daughter Moves in with Boyfriend and studying to become a witness
by RunAwayDaughter inmy 18-year-old-daughter, who has not finished high school, left south carolina on january 31 with her 22-year old boyfriend to move in with his family in california.
they are jehovah witness.
daughter: i love you too.
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Wild_Thing
I am third generation JW. My mother married when she was 15. My sister married when she was 18. My other sister married when she was 17. They will make sure they are married. Probably this summer. I'm so sorry. Always keep the door to communication open. She'll need someone to turn to once she realizes the truth.
Also, this exact same situation happened with a family where I grew up. They moved the girl in with them. Helped her finish high school, got her baptized, and married to their son before the end of the summer. The local JW busy-body sisters even got involved and helped her dye her white wedding dress in tea because "white is supposed to symbolize purity" and she was not because she wasn't a virgin anymore. It sounds so cultish as I type this out.