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steamer, Live Oak, and by 1880, he was working as a clerk on a steamboat. Boardman advanced to river pilot serving on the steamer, Mitchel. In 1872, he was aboard the Southwestern when it burned near Colfax, Louisiana on the Red River. Boardman later owned and piloted the Bossier, Maria Louise, Valley Queen, and Yazoo Valley. When he died at Pearlington on July 29,1909, Captain Daniel Boardman was one of the most experienced and widely acclaimed Red River pilots. He left his wife, Carrie Lampkin (1857-1909+) who he had married at Hancock County on April 8, 1884. She was a native of Alabama. The Boardmans had two children, Charity Boardman (1888-1909 + ) , and son, William T. Boardman (1885-1909 + ) , who lived at Gulfport. Captain Boardman's remains were buried in the family plot at Pearlington, Mississippi .
Angeline Catherine Boardman (1851-1941) married Theopilus Moody Favre (b.	1843), a dry goods merchant, at
Hancock County on December 30, 1872. Their children were: Daniel Favre (b. 1876), Wiley T. Favre (b. 1878), Sarah (b. 1879), Harriet, and Catherine..
Roderick S. Boardman (1857-1939?) made his livelihood as a steam boat captain. He married Annie ? (1873-1900+), a native of Alabama, in 1898. They had a child, Joseph Boardman, born in December 1899.
In October 1885, the Boardman-Russ House was donated to Harriet Boardman Russ by her siblings, Daniel A. Boardman, Angeline C. Favre, and Roderick S. Boardman.(3) Harriet Boardman married Asa Russ (1855-1932 + ) , a house carpenter, on November 19,	1879. Russ was the son of
farmer, Luther F. Russ (b. 1835), and Nancy ? (b. 1845)
Asa Russ and Harriet Boardman had three children born at Pearlington:	Abram	Boardman Russ (1880-pre	1945)
Roderick Seal Russ (1882-1965), and Albert Brown Russ (1889-1953). They were all residing at Pearlington in 1900. The brothers of Mrs. Russ, Daniel A. Boardman, Jr. and Roderick S. Boardman, were close neighbors on the Pearlington-Gainesville Road.
The Russ children left Pearlington and were successful in life. A brief sketch of their lives follows:
Abram Boardman Russ (1880-pre 1945) was a dentist at Pearlington in 1900. Dr. Russ had an office at Biloxi in 1904, at Howard and Magnolia. Russ married Virginia McCloskey on June 10,	1906. He was in Biloxi in 1931, but
was living at New Orleans in 1932. Dr. Russ practiced dentistry on Baronne Street at New Orleans. The Russes had no children, but reared a niece. Dr. Russ appears to have died before 1945.
Roderick Seal Russ (1882-1965) was born at Pearlington, Mississippi. In 1900, young Russ was a merchandise salesman at Pearlington. He attended college at Millsaps


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