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BOARDMAN-RUSS HOUSE (1855-1995)
Highway 604-Pearlington Hancock County, Mississippi by
Ray L. Bellande
The Boardman-Russ House is located on the west side of Mississippi Highway 604 in the Pearlington community of southwest Hancock County. It can be reached from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi by going approximately fifteen miles west on Mississippi Highway 607. At the juncture with Mississippi Highway 604 go southwest 3.7 miles to the Boardman-Russ House at Pearlington. The old structure is in Lot
7	of Section 17, T9S-R16W.
The Boardman-Russ House is a Greek Revival cottage built circa 1855, on the old Pearlington to Gainesville Road, by Daniel Augustus Boardman, Sr.. It is a one and one-half story, five bay, wood frame building with an undercut gallery and side gabled roof resting on brick piers. The facade has four, large, six-over-six, double- hung windows which were flanked by full-louvered shutters in 1991. The four panel door is transomed and has sidelights. Six rectangular doric columns support the front gallery which is L-shaped, and is enclosed by a simple ballustrade. The gableboard is ornamented with vertical lines and a projecting sawn ornament. The corner boards carry a diamond-shaped green design. The Boardman-Russ House is in a mature stage of demolition by neglect.
In September 1853, the U.S. Government sold Section 17, T9S-R16W to	David	Bartholomew.(1)	Later, Bartholomew
conveyed Lot 7	(72.80	acres) of Section 17	to Daniel A.
Boardman, in August 1856, for $100.00.(2) It was here in the southeastern quarter of this irregular section that Boardman built his cottage.
In 1850, Daniel Augustus Boardman, Sr. (1809-1859), a native probably of Leonminster, Massachusetts, made his livelihood at Hancock County as a blacksmith. He was married to Mississippi born, Martha Seal (1823-1903). This appears to have been his second marriage. Martha Seal's parents were born at	North Carolina.	Mrs.	Boardman had
eight children.	Those	currently known	are:	Catherine (b.
1846), Daniel A. Boardman, Jr. (1847-1909), Angeline B. Favre (1851-1941), Harriet B. Russ (1856-1932), Abram Boardman (1857-1876), and Roderick Boardman (1857-1939?). Four were living in 1900.
Daniel A. Boardman appears to have been married and resided at Maine prior to coming to Hancock County, as he had a daughter, Anna Boardman (b.	1831) , living with his
Mississippi family in 1850.
The lives of the Boardman children as currently known are presented as follows:
Daniel A. Boardman, Jr. (1847-1909) made his livelihood on steamboats. He began his career in 1867, on the