1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Zebedee RUSSELL Birth: 19 Apr 1805, Randolph, North Carolina Death: 19 Mar 1886, Montgomery, North Carolina Father: Gabriel RUSSELL; Mother: Candis Source: patron submission

2.  1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  not found.

3.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #67-68 of 74; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840

NC

Montgomery Co.

East side of the P.D. [Pee Dee] and Yadkin River

Roll 905

pp. 237B-378A

Ln. 10

Zebadee Russel

210 001 - 000 010

0100000

no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
2 males	4 or under	1835-1840	= Edward (b. 1837/8) = George (b. 1835/6)
1 male	5-9	1830-1835	= Alexander (b. 1834)
1 male	30-39	1800-1810	= Zebedee (b. 1805)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Prudence  (b. 1812)
1	person employed in agriculture

4.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #102 of 125 — indexed "Zebedue"):  Montgomery Co., NC, p. 152A, 727/729, enumerated 26 Sep 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Zebedee Russell	45	M		Farmer	500	No Carolina
Prudence    "	37	F				"
Alexander M "	16	M		Laborer		"
George L    "	14	M				"
Edward N    "	12	M				"
Atlas L     "	10	M				"
Moses H     "	8	M				"
Willie J    "	5	M				"
Martha L    "	2	F				"

5.  1860 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #13-14 of 24):  Fork Dist., Montgomery Co., NC, Roll 905 (Book 1), pp. 495A-495B, PN 97-98, 737/737, enumerated 9 Aug 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Zebedee Russell	55	M		Farmer	1500	900	N Carolina
Prudence Russell	48	F					"
Alexander M "	26	M		Merchant			"
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A L Russell	20	M		farm hand			"
M H Russell	17	M		D   Do			"
Willie  "	15	M					"
Lamia?  "	12	F					"

6.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #9 of 23):  Wind Hill P.O., El Dorado Twp., Montgomery Co., NC, Roll M593_1149, p. 395A, PN 9, 65/65, enumerated 17 Jul 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Russell Zebedee	65	M	W	Farmer	1500	600	Va
_______ Prudence	68	F	W	Keeping house			Va
_______ Louisa	18	F	W	at home			Va

Listed three households from Eli & Annie (HOPKINS) RUSSELL, Zebedee's brother and Prudence's sister, respectively. 

7.  1880 Census (indexed at FamilySearch.org; page image online at Ancestry.com, Image #21 of 22):  El Dorado Twp., Montgomery Co., NC, Roll T9-0973, p. 121A, PN 21, SD 3, ED 124, enumerated 15/16 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1880:  for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1

2

3

4

5

6

8

9

10

13

21

22

23

24

25

26

189

190

Russell Zebidee

W

M

75

/

Dealer in Dry Goods

North Carolina

NC

NC

_______ Prudence

W

F

68

Wife

/

Keeping House

North Carolina

NC

NC

Lemley Louisa

W

F

30

Dau

/

Keeping House

North Carolina

NC

NC

Russell Reid

W

M

10

GSon

/

At school

/

/

/

North Carolina

NC

NC

Louisa's row has a line through it, as do two other rows on this page; there's a note in the margin next to the line that I can't make out.

8.  Anon.  2003.  The Heritage of Montgomery County, North Carolina.  Vol. III.  Montgomery County Historical Society (excerpt posted to the Hopkins Family Genealogy Forum, online at GenForum.com).  In Vol. III, on p. 384, is a biographical sketch of Benjamin HOPKINS, said here to be the father of our subject, but the article contains many obvious and serious errors, so caveat emptor!

... Edward “Ned” Hopkins was born in 1772, and in 1801 he married Hannah Crow...  Ned and Hannah had ten children... Prudence Hopkins was born in 1812 and married Zebedee Russell around 1832 — they are buried at the Russell Cemetery near Eldorado in Montgomery County...

9.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).