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DeForest Daniel "Dan" Rushing - This is the Web site administrator for the Rushings Website.
2800 Lexington Place N.E. # 125, Albuquerque, NM 87112; - phone (505)-293-7559
[NI0005]
BIRTH: DeForest Rushing was born on the Farmers Valley, Texas farm of Edward F. Rushing which was on the Chilicothe Mail Route but actually located in Wilbarger County Texas. No birth certificate exists, Social Security accepted affidavits and military records to establish his birth location and date.
FARMERS VALLEY, TEXAS. Farmers Valley is at the intersection of Farm roads 925 and 392, nine miles west of Vernon and one mile east of the Hardeman county line in west central Wilbarger County. A small community had been established in the area when a school was built in 1887. By the early 1900s it had grown to include a Methodist congregation established in 1881, a cotton gin, and a combination grocery store and service station. The Methodists built their church building about 1922. The school was renamed Wells Chapel in 1924 and served the area until it was consolidated with the Chillicothe school in 1946. The Farmers Valley population was reported at twenty-five during the 1930s and 1940s and fifty in later records. The Methodist church dissolved in the late 1970s, and the gin closed in 1982. The reported population was fifty in 1990.
[BIBLIOGRAPHY: Wilbarger County Historical Commission, Wilbarger County (Lubbock, 1986)].
MILITARY SERVICE:
Enlisted in the US Army in 1940 and was stationed at Schofield Barracks on Dec. 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. In 1943 Supply Sergeant Rushing contracted Malaria in Guadalcanal, the Soloman Islands, and was transferred to San Francisco for recovery. While there he was assigned as a driver for The United Nations and was awarded "Charter Member Status" in the U.N.. Deforest took leave in 1943 to meet and marry his high school sweetheart Margaret Garcia in Georgia. Margaret was also in the Army Stationed at New Jersey. DeForest Rushing was Honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant from the US Army in 1945 at San Francisco, California. Copies of Deforest's DD214 and death certificate in personal file of son D. D. Rushing of Albuquerque, NM.
Deforest H. Rushing worked for Sandia National Laboratories after 1952 until he retired. He was an Electronics Inspector during the development of the nuclear fusion power, participated in the development of the printed circuit, semiconductors, microchip and subsequent technologies. He began in electronics by opening his own TV and Radio repair shop in Richmond, California in 1946 while still attending tech school there. DeForest Radio was the name of his shop. As a youngster he used to build crystal radios for his friends, he used Galina Crystals and safety pin "cat whiskers" and made the detectors himself. He was an avid hunter, gun collector, wood worker and sports fan including professional football and wrestling.
Albuquerque Journal Obituaries; 23 Dec. 1999:
DeForest H. Rushing, 81, passed away
on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 in Truth or
Consequences, New Mexico. He is
survived by his wife, Margaret; daughters,
Donna Lynn Galavez from Coeur D'Alene,
Idaho and Pamela Cummins-Krupp from
Mesa, Arizona; sons, Edward Jeffrey
Rushing of Phoenix, Arizona, Charles Keith
Rushing of Fairbanks, Alaska and
DeForest Daniel Rushing of Albuquerque;
numerous grandchildren and one
great-grandchild. Mr. Rushing was a retired
employee of Sandia Labs. Services will be
held on Thursday, December 23, 1999 in
the afternoon. Sierra Funeral Home in Truth
or Consequences in charge of
arrangements, 505- 894-4428.
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What people remember about the D. in Manuel's name is it stood for "De La Atocha". The D has been carried down and is in Edward Jeffrey D Rushing his grandchild.
The Holy Child of Atocha; Santo Niño de Atocha, Chimayo, New Mexico
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[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 L-Z, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jul 24, 2003, Internal Ref. #1.112.7.12332.182]
Individual: Lobato, Candelaria
Social Security #: 526-32-8130
Issued in: Arizona
Birth date: Mar 20, 1908
Death date: Aug 2, 1992
ZIP Code of last known residence: 87113
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Albuquerque, New Mexico
[NI0017]
Garcia, Juan Antonio, b. 06/09/1912, d. 10/11/1991, SP2C USN, Plot: 7 30, bur. 10/15/1991, Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
501 North Guadalupe St.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
[NI0018]
Garcia, Manuel D Jr, b. 02/02/1917, d. 02/21/2000, US Army, SGT, Res: Albuquerque, NM, Plot: 10 0 675, bur. 02/25/2000, Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Albuquerque Journal Obituaries; 2 February, 2000
Manuel D. Garcia Jr., 83, formerly of Ojo
Caliente, NM, passed away February 21,
2000. He was a native New Mexican, a
P.O.W. and recipient of a Purple Heart in
WW II. He is survived by his wife of 45
years, Erlinda Garcia; daughter, Amelia
Sanchez and husband, Leland; grandson,
Martin Garcia and wife, Bernadette;
great-grandchildren, LeAnn, Martin Jr.,
Dominic; sisters, Bessie Brito and
husband, Rudy, Selina Pasillas and
husband, Manuel, Margaret Rushing;
numerous other family and friends who
loved and will miss him. Services will be
held at Rio Grande Baptist Church, 2121
Gun Club Rd. SW at 10:00 A.M. on Friday,
February 25, 2000 with burial following at
Santa Fe National Cemetery. Pallbearers
will be Larkin Garcia, Daniel Gomez, Mike
Padilla, Elmo Garcia, Kahn Nyugen, Cruz
Lugo and Oliver Archuleta. Arrangements
by Direct Funeral Services, 2919 4th NW,
343-8008.
[NI0020] Garcia, Eli, b. 04/04/1923, d. 10/15/1968, S SGT US ARMY, Plot: V 1330, bur. 10/18/1968. Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
[NI0026]
B. June 11, 1815 in TN, d. 1885 in TX. Married Rebecca Pearce, TN, d. 1863. William Riley [Rushing] married Martha Tillman 1864, TX. A cousin has verified through the census of 1850 that he was in Anderson County, TX. Children of William Riley and Rebecca: Martha, Elizabeth, William, Susan, Samantha, Mary, Francis. William Riley and Martha: James, Walter (my grandfather). I am continuing to seek more info. about William.
Work on the descendants of William Riley Rushing was done by Jim Henderson, Feb. 2000
William Riley Rushing who married (1)Rebecca Price, (2) Martha Tillman (Pearce) Robinson. My grandfather, Thomas Walter Rushin b.1868 TX, was from wife #2. Grandfather married Eppie McMillin b.1889 TX. For unknown reasons, Thomas Walter Rushin did not include a "g" at the end of his name.
Paul Rushing [born: 1780 in North Carolina a son of Solomon Rushing] is also in the 1850 Anderson County, Texas Census at age 70 alone with small Rushing child [Felix] in the household, they are very near other Rushing families from Tennessee, This suggests Rushing kinships yet to be explored. Paul was in North Carolina , according to land records, when these Anderson County, Texas Rushing fathers were born in Tennessee, but late in his life Paul comes to the frontier to be with them and the child Felix Rushing. Paul is next door to the James H. Rushing family in the census with the young Mitchell family also living in his household. Paul Rushing had previously gone to Sumter County, Alabama and was there in the 1840 census.
[NI0027]
Historical Encyclopedia of New Mexico:
"Edward Franklin Rushing, owner of a large general merchandise store at Ojo Caliente, [New Mexico] came here nearly twenty years ago and during the first three years of residence at this famous resort operated a bus line from Taos Junction to the hot springs from which the town derives it's name. He then opened a garage across the highway from his present location and operated a garage and service station for ten years. The garage was destroyed by fire and Mr. Rushing then purchased the general store here and has operated it since, a period of some five or six years.
Edward Franklin Rushing was born in Stephenville, Texas, on the twenty-sixth of August 1880, a son of John Franklin, a farmer, and Hattie (Beard) Rushing, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Rushing acquired his education in the public schools at Stephenville and lived there until he was nineteen years old. For ten years he was employed in a gin and oil mill, working at both Cisco and Stephenville, and then went to San Augustine County, Texas, and managed a gin there for J. C. Williams for five years. His next move was to Vernon in Wilbarger County, Texas where he farmed for ten years. After six months spent as a patient in the Woodmen Hospital in Colorado Springs, Mr. Rushing came to New Mexico and for a year was employed in a service station at Raton. From there he came to Ojo Caliente and has successively engaged in operation of a bus line, a garage and during the past few years has had the ownership operation of a highly successful general merchandising business.
At the age of Nineteen Mr. Rushing was married to Miss Oma Short, a native of Eastland, Texas, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Short. Mr. and Mrs. Rushing are the parents of eight children, Edna, now the wife of Rev. Edward William McKinley,[sic][should read Rev. Eulyss Chesley NcKinzie] a minister of the Christian Church; Lorain Rushing, deceased; Jesse Rushing, a welder in a shipyard in California; Lessie, Married to Lee Bond a land leveler of San Francisco, California; Marie, wife of Frank Bailey, a bakery salesman of Denver Colorado; Prentice Rushing, crane operator in the shipyards at Richmond, California; DeForest Rushing, now in the United States Army and Faith (Rushing) Boggs, married to Eugene H. Boggs of the U. S. Army. There are twelve grandchildren.
Mr. Rushing is a highly capable businessman, a progressive and public spirited citizen and member of the Methodist Church. He is an ardent sportsman and wrestling fan."
(c)1945 New Mexico Historical Society; "Historical Encyclopedia of New Mexico"; pages 1897 - 1898 call number R978.9H673; Albuquerque Public Library.
[Note: One Rev. Eulyss Chesley McKinzie is called Edward William McKinley in this biography, he is my aunt "Tot's" husband "Uncle "Mac". The biography is incorrect about his name.] Edward Rushing had a "Founding Father of The State of New Mexico" Certificate dated 1912 when New Mexico became a state. His biography does not show his activity in New Mexico, at that time he still worked the itinerant farming route with his brothers in Texas.
The bus service that Ed owned was a green National Car open limousine. The windows were "Isinglass", a clear gelled biological material [made from fish bladders], before clear plastics but similar to plastic. They had to be placed in bad weather and removed in hot weather. Edward's green Chevrolet National car/ bus doubled as Ojo Caliente's and Taos Junction's town limousine. The National Car was built to seat seven passengers.
Edward owned a black two wheel covered buggy when they were a poorer farm family before he started the businesses in Ojo Caliente. Ed was very proud of that fancy buggy, they had had it since the family farmed and lived on a farm between Vernon and Chilicothe, Texas. This farm was on the Chilicothe mail route but near Vernon, Wilbarger County, from this farm Ed's and his brothers worked an itinerant three farm route in Oklahoma. They would first plow and plant cotton on all four farms. Go back to Texas and hoe and chop [thin the cotton] then do the same on the Oklahoma route, another round to pick and gin [remove the seeds from] the cotton. Back home to chop wood, gather coal, butcher and smoke meat for the winter. Thier father John Rushing died on one of the rounds and was buried along side the wagon trail. Later the TB would kill Ed's brother or half brother Burt on Ed's Vernon/Chilicothe farm and Lelia Loraine, Ed's daughter in Ojo Caliente, NM, Edward would survive it and live till age 91.
The new store was across the road was from the old garage was because: The "one lung", as they called it, air compressor engine at Ed's gas station set fire to the gasoline and burned down the store and home. A one lung engine is a single cylinder four cycle combustion engine that uses a huge heavy fly wheel to keep it running till the next compression stroke. Cough- woof- woof- woof- cough- woof- woof...
After this biography Edward and Oma (Etta Leoma Short (Rushing)) were divorced in Ojo Caliente. Oma remarried to King Brady Newman and Edward remarried to Ruby Mae Rogers (Rushing). Ed and Ruby moved to Farmington, San Juan County, NM and bought a farm there. Oma and Brady Newman moved to Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA where they worked at the shipping yards of San Francisco. Brady was an excellent auto and aircraft mechanic after WW II and Oma was a seamstress. Ed worked the farm till he was 86 years old. I spent a few summers working for him on the farm and our family frequently would go up there from Albuquerque for Christmas. Edward and Ruby adopted her son Dayle Rushing who was raised in Farmington. Dayle became an oil 'ramrod' but did his own prospecting and sold geographic reports and oil fields to the competitors of the company where he worked. This practise led to a major auto accident that almost killed him and changed his life. Afterwards Dayle moved to California where he lived the rest of his life. Dayle was considered a full brother to the other children. I have spelled his name Dayle Rushing previously, but was corrected after his death in 2000.
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[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Oct 3, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.62091.161]
Individual: Rushing, Edward [Social Security Death Index]
Birth date: Aug 26, 1880
Death date: Feb. 1971
Social Security #: 525-52-2025
Last residence: NM 87417 [Kirtland, San Juan County, New Mexico]
State of issue: NM
[NI0028]
This is my Grandmother who started me in genealogy by telling the traditions of our ancestors and taking me to many Short family reunions as a child. She was a fast seamstress who made me every kind of cool shirt I desired, even a pink one with epaulets, double pockets and long tails to hang out. Great for the 1950's, I kept and wore it proudly it till 1976.
She worked on the docks in San Francisco during WW II sometimes loading ships with the stevedores. She would spend hours on end with me, making pedigrees of our own design with places for siblings so each pedigree was as resourceful as a group sheet. She would give me double eagle silver dollars from the Las Vegas, NV slot machines. The coins were fine silver, "grandma Newman" was gold.
Grandma died the night before Thanksgiving in a nursing home in Greeley, Colorado. Marie and Susie were still baking pumpkin pies around midnight at Marie's home and motel in Greeley when they called about her death.
Dan Rushing
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 L-Z, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jul 24, 2003, Internal Ref. #1.112.7.47550.39]
Individual: Newman, Leoma
Social Security #: 525-36-4575
Issued in: New Mexico
Birth date: Oct 4, 1882
Death date: Nov 1977
Residence code: Colorado
ZIP Code of last known residence: 80631
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Greeley, Colorado
ZIP Code of address where death benefit payment was sent: 94805
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Richmond, California