From: Wbm91837(a)aol.com
My copy of History of Kentucky Illustrated 1888 8th Edition by Perrin,
Battle, and Kniffin has the following:
REV. RUSSELL CECIL was born in Wayne County Ky., October 1, 1853, and is a son
of Russell H. and Lucy (Phillips) Cecil, natives respectively, of Pulaski
County, Va., and Wayne County, Ky. The Cecil family are of English origin and
among the earliest settlers of Maryland; The Phillips family came from North
Carolina. Russell H. Cecil is a farmer, and for thirty years has resided in
Mercer County, Ky., but in early life was engaged in mercantile business.
Russell Cecil, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the home farm, but at
the age of seventeen entered Princeton (N.J.) College, from which he graduated
in 1874, at the age of twenty. In 1875 he taught school near Danville, Ky.;
and in 1876 he entered the Theological Seminary of Princeton, N.J., from which
he graduated in the the spring of the year 1878. In the Autumn of that same
year he went to Europe, spent two months at Edinburgh, Scotlant, attending
lectures, preparatory, to going to the Holy Land, through which he traveled,
and returned to the United States in 1879. He was at once called to the charge
of the Presbyterian Church at Nicholasville, Ky., and remained there until
1885, when he removed to Maysville and took charge of the Central Presbyterian
Church of that city. January 19, 1881, he married Miss Alma Miller, of Madison
County, Ky., and to their union have been born three children.
WBM Note: While I don't have notes in front of me this family are direct
descendants of Amuel and Rebecca White Cecil.
Walt