Sarah Amanda Sanders Russell (August 31, 1844 – March 18, 1913) was an American political hostess, temperance activist, and farmer.

[1] Russell's brother left his studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to serve in the Confederate Army.

[3] After her father's death in 1866, she and her sister, Alice, went to live with their uncle, John Sanders, at Elm Grove Plantation in Onslow County.

[3] She and her husband were Republicans who supported the emancipation of enslaved people and the acceptance of African-Americans as political equals, which were unpopular views in the majority Democratic state.

[1] They lived in Washington, D.C. while her husband served as a member of the United States Congress, and then settled at Belleville, their plantation in Brunswick County.

[1] Russell purchased a cow to provide milk for her ailing niece, who lived with them, and later expanded the operation into a working dairy at Belleville.