Notes

[NI0030] Dayle was raised in Fruitland NM. He worked for the oil companies in the Farmington NM. area until a serious auto wreck. During a long but complete recovery he moved to Stockton, California and later to Bakersfield. Dayle Rushing was thought of as a natural brother to the rest of the children.

When his mother Ruby died he personally brought her back to San Juan County, NM from California in a van that he drove himself so that she could be buried with her family and near Edward Rushing.

U.S. Social Security Death Index; 30 September 2000
Dayle Rushing
Social Security Number: 525-64-1150
State Where Number Was Issued: New Mexico
Birth Date: 25 Dec 1931
Death Date: 9 Apr 2000

[NI0031] John Rushing was an itinerant farmer and sharecropper in Texas and up along the Oklahoma border. He worked and traveled with his brothers. According to Edward Franklin Rushing (son) John Rushing died along the trail in Oklahoma and is buried there by the trail and not in a graveyard. In Edward Franklin Rushing's Salt Lake L.D.S. Temple work John Rushing and Harriet Lee Beard are named as his parents. On April 18, 1878 Harriet Beard married a J. H. Rushing in Erath County, Texas U. J. Morton, LD presiding. J. H. Rushing appears in the 1880 Census of Erath County, Texas, married to a Hattie Beard. The marriage shows in the 1878 Erath County abstracts without other family member's names. Placement of this John Rushing in the family of Preston Rushing is based on the remembrance of Etta Leoma Short Rushing and the names appearing on the 1860 and 1870 Federal Census [the known sibling names also show on the records].

Etta Short Rushing remembered the other children had the surname Beard the same as their mother. Marie Rushing Bailey remembers the half siblings of Edward and his mother Hattie's last name as Lynch. Harriet Beard (Rushing > Lynch) was only 15 years old when Edward was born and he seems to be her first born. In April 18, 1892 She married an R. E. Lynch in Erath Co., TX [page 5, book F; Erath County Marriages]. Edward Rushing himself names his mother as Hattie Beard in his Historical society biography and to family members including this writer [great grandson].
Maybe John died before he was 37 years old, in 1892. Marie remembers Ed saying that his dad died when he was only three years old [would have been 1884].

Etta Leoma Short reported Edward's father's name to be John Bunyan Rushing in 1971, this middle name is incorrect, Bunyan is her grandfathers middle name both grandfathers were Johns however. She said she remembered he had a brother named Philip and that they were from Tennessee. She also said that John's father's name was Preston Rushing of Tennessee and that Preston worked in real estate after the Civil War. (Census shows Preston as a Farmer in McNairy County, TN.)

John H. Rushing is placed in the family of Preston Rushing of McNairy County, TN based on the 1860 Saline County, and 1870 Pulaski County, Arkansas Federal Census'. This family placement gives him a brother named Phillip and a father named Preston and a sister in-law named Marg A. Beard the wife of Wiley Rushing. The McNairy County, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma connection circumstantial evidence exists in the descendants of Preston Rushing along with connections to Beard and Nelson families. By the 1880 Census John Rushing is gone from the family and shows in Erath Co., TX. Ed's wife Etta Short Rushing also said that Ed's mothers name was Harriet "Hattie" Lee Beard also of Tennessee which proves correct [LDS Temple and census records; 1880 Erath County, Texas Federal Census]. Etta Short also remembered that some of the brothers and sisters of his son Edward Rushing were half brothers and sisters named Beard or Baird. The name she remembered are Oscar, Hattie, Maud and Etta. They sometimes visited New Mexico from Texas and Oklahoma but their last names would have been Lynch as Beard defies logic and records. These first names of Ed's half siblings was confirmed in a Jan. 2001 interview with Marie Rushing Bailey.

Edward Rushing reports that John Rushing died along the trail and was buried there at an unknown place in Oklahoma or Texas along the family's Itinerant farming route. Ed's daughter Marie Rushing Bailey remembers Hattie's last name as Lynch and an additional brother Burt Rushing or Lynch, who died on their Vernon/ Chilicothe farm of TB. [Marie Bailey remembers the farm was in Vernon, Texas area but on the Chilicothe mail route at a place called Farmers Valley, [Mar. 2001]]

On April 18, 1892 a Harriet Rushing married an R. E. Lynch in Erath Co., TX on the same date and using the same Deacon that married her to J. H. Rushing in 1878 [page 5, book F; Erath County Marriages, (W.J. Morton, LD). (LD = Local Deacon in Texas marriage records)

[NI0043] Elizabeth, nicknamed "Tina", was the second wife of John Bunyan Short, Jr. after Henrietta passed
away. He made a trip back to Alabama and married Tina, which had several children from her first
marriage. They all loaded up in a wagon and made the long trip back to Texas. One of these children
ended up being may grandmother, Ada Armitte Colvin. My grandfather, John Archabald Short, married
one of Tina's children from her first marriage. A half sister, but no blood kinship thank goodness.
Elizabeth had four more children with my grandfather before she passed away in 1926. "Tina" is buried
in Pineland Cemetery, in beautiful Pineland, Texas. My grandmother Ada Armittie was supposed to be
buried in San Augustine, County close to Pineland but we could never locate her grave. All records in
San Augustine and Sabine county were checked but her death was never recorded.

-Larry J. Douglas, 2002

[NI0049] Lois Cannaday married her sister Mickey's husband's brother, which made her sister also her sister-in-law and the same relationship for the brothers. The Gordon, William Chester and Charlie Brown, brothers were also their respective brothers in law. Their children called themselves double cousins and held this relationship very special and close.

Lois Cannaday's second husband Leo Trego adopted Brenda and Sandra at a young age. This tree reflects Leo Trego as the father rather than William Chester Gordon. The official Oklahoma birth certificates show Leo as their natural father. Leo Trego is the natural father of Ramona Loraine Trego.

[NI0050] EDWARD FRANKLIN RUSHING was born on April
20, 1942 and joined the Armed Forces while in
BRANDON, MS.

He served as a 11B40 in the Army. In 6 years
of service, he attained the rank of Staff Sergeant / Specialist Six; Pay grade E6.

On February 14, 1967, at the age of 24,
EDWARD FRANKLIN RUSHING perished in the
service of our country in Phouc Tuy, South Vietnam.

Edward is one of eight Rushings honored on the Viet Nam War Memorial Wall. You can find EDWARD FRANKLIN RUSHING honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Panel 15E, Row 27.

"Killed in action February 14, 1967 by ground casualty gun, small arms fire hostile, died in Phuoc Tuy South Vietnam. The body was recovered. Home of record was BRANDON, MS. Born April 20, 1942 age at death 24. A Caucasian Male, Married. Religious affiliation Baptist. CAACF Record Number : 14708441"

Edward's name was collected for inclusion among the one million names placed on the STARDUST spacecraft, which will visit Comet Wild 2 in 2004. His name is one of the fifty-one Rushing names engraved onto a microchip launched into space as: "...provided a way to honor individuals by enabling them to be associated with mankind's most advanced technological endeavor and to be part of the quest of the human species to reach for the stars." (

The other Rushing names sent to space are:
KENNETH ROGER RUSHING (1LT/ARMY)
WILLIAM LENDELL RUSHING (1LT/ARMY)
JAMES MONROE RUSHING (2LT/MARINE CORPS)
MICHAEL GEAN RUSHING (CPL/MARINE CORPS)
GARY GRANT RUSHING (PFC/ARMY)
STEPHEN ABRAM RUSHING (SGT/ARMY)
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSHING (SP4/ARMY)
EDWARD FRANKLIN RUSHING (SSG/ARMY)
COY M RUSHING II
DELTA H RUSHING JR
RUSHING
ALLIE RUSHING
ANGELA RUSHING
ANGELA S. RUSHING
ANN S RUSHING
AUGUSTUS B. RUSHING
AUSTIN RUSHING
BELLE RUSHING
CAROLEE J RUSHING
CHRISTINA RUSHING
CHRISTOPHER A RUSHING
CLARK S RUSHING
DANNY RUSHING
DARIAN M RUSHING
DIXIE S RUSHING
ELIZABETH G RUSHING
EVA M RUSHING
J BYRON RUSHING
JACK B RUSHING
JAMES C RUSHING
JAMES S RUSHING
JENNIFER L RUSHING
JIMMY RUSHING
JUSTIN G RUSHING
MANDY RUSHING
MARK O. RUSHING
MARSHALL VAN RUSHING
MARY LOU M. RUSHING
MELISSA RUSHING
NIC R. RUSHING
RICHARD RUSHING
ROBERT E RUSHING
ROXANNE RUSHING
RUSH RUSHING
SARAH M. RUSHING
SCOTT K RUSHING
SEAN RUSHING
SEAN P RUSHING
SHEA RUSHING
WILMA GENE RUSHING
THE RUSHINGS

[NI0051] [Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from A through L, Date of Import: Mar 29, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.37796.29]

Individual: Cannaday, Earnest
Birth date: Jul 2, 1903
Death date: Jun 1975
Social Security #: 442-24-9987
Last residence: OK 73110
State of issue: OK

Subject: Re: Cannady & Milano, Texas
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:58:07 -0500
From: "James David Walker"
To: "Dan Rushing"

Dan,

Thanks for the kind words about my Website and the rundown on your Cannaday
line. All that I can offer for the moment is a descendants chart on my
wife's Wagstaff Cannady (attached as a text file) that I ran using info in
my wife's PAF file.

If you don't have these stories I can copy and send via snail mail.

I looked for Cannaday in Matchless Milam (the Milam County history book).
There are some nice stories about your Ford family (came to Milam County
from Hamilton Co., TN) written by an Evelyn Hess. One story ends as
follows (after listing information on first five children of John Wesley
Ford and wife Elender Henry):

Sixth child Texana, born 1879 married Darce Robert Cannaday. Their
children are Ernest Ezekiel, his wife Bula; Darce Ojimer married Vera
Myrtle Lyons; Mrs. Eleanor Jarvis; and Erma Inez Church.

Cheryl (my wife) is asleep at the moment and is leaving early tomorrow for
a trip. She will be back Wednesday night. I believe that she may have
some additional information on the early Cannady families and will get her
to dig it out and share with you.

When Cheryl began searching the Cannady line, she ran across a story about
Wagstaff Cannady. Early in our history, criminals were disfigured so that
they could be easily identified as criminals. Cheryl found a reference to
an affidavit sworn out by a man who was explaining that he was not a
criminal, but rather that he had lost an ear when during a fight Wagstaff
Cannady bit off the ear. At the time I told Cheryl that this sounded like
her family. Much later, during a trip to North Carolina, Cheryl discovered
that Wagstaff Cannaday is her direct ancestor.

I will also ask Cheryl about the name change. However, the difference is
small enough that I think there is a good chance that the lines connect. I
had more than one ancestor who changed the spelling of their name because
they could not read and write and therefore let others spell the name for
them (and the new spelling became the accepted form). I will not be too
terribly surprised if you connect to the Wagstaff Cannady line, given the
fact that he had a son named Dorris (close to your "Daris" or "Darce"
Cannaday).

Thanks again for sharing.
James
[note: James is the coordinator of the Milam County, TX genweb page]

I have Interviewed Earnest and Beaulah at length a few times. First in 1969 at their home in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I was a new grandson in law so they found out more about me and welcomed me into the family with demonstrations of their joking way of teaching. One of the lessons being not to be so nosey, I had much to learn about interviewing a family for genealogy information. They were such a happy and optimistic couple. Later they moved to Oklahoma City to be closer to their child Mickey Cannaday Gordon. Aunt Mickey's home was central to how the families had spread out, Brenda and I visited for days at a time several times. On holidays the families would gather at the home and we had impromptu family reunions. The story heard most often was how Beaula first saw Earnest ride up out of the sun on a white horse, and her having to shade her eyes to see him. It must have been 'love at first sight' for the memory to be so vivid and detailed after so long. Oh if you could have heard how she told it.

- D. Dan Rushing

[NI0059] Benny Sisson had two more known children. Pamela Susan was adopted along with her natural brother David Royce, by the Lee family when Pamela was about 5 yrs. old in Hurst Texas. Her natural parents were the Sissons of Orange, Texas. Her natural father's name was Bennie Sissons and she has two additional known siblings named: Dianna and Buck Sisson.

[NI0060] Albuquerque Journal on August 03, 2005

ESPINOZA GARCIA -- Erlinda Espinoza Garcia, 78, was called home on July 31, 2005. She was wife to Manuel D. Garcia Jr., daughter to Raphael Espinoza and Demetria Martinez, sister to Maria, Teresa, Arturo, and Yallo. She is survived by her brother, Chon and wife, Fermina Espinoza; daughter, Ameila and "parche mal pegado" Lee Sanchez; grandson, Martin and wife, Berna Garcia; great-grandchildren, Le Ann, Martin Jr., and Dominic. She is also survived by her in-laws, Bessie and Rudy Brito, Selina and Manuel Pasillas; her extended family the Castillos, Andrew, Yolanda, Lucia, and Herbert; and many loving friends and family. She was known for her kindness and sweet disposition. She never complained about anything. She would make you feel at home with food, she was a great cook. Many have fond memories of her and dad and the weekends at the farm in Ojo Caliente. She was always generous with her love and spirit. Visitation will be held on Wednesday August 3, 2005 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Direct Funeral Services, a Rosary will follow at 7 p.m. Services will be Thursday August 4, 2005, 10 a.m. at Tower Road Baptist Church, 601 86th St SW with Pastor Gerald Wood officiating. Burial will follow at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Pallbearers are Andrew Castillo, Herbert Castillo, Khanh Nguyen, Pete Nieto, Robert Garcia, and Carlos Santistevan. We, her family and friends are grateful for the time spent with her, the laughter we shared and the wonderful memories we have of her life. A special thanks to the 5th floor oncology nursing staff at Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Lorraine Sanchez and the Hematology - Oncology associates. You were her angels.

[NI0077] Albuquerque Journal Obituaries; 2 September, 2001
Margaret G. Rushing, 81, died Friday,
August 31, 2001. She was born in Embudo,
New Mexico on September 27, 1919.
Margaret was the sixth of ten children and
was a life long resident of New Mexico. She
served in the Women's Army Corps during
World War II. She was a faithful homemaker
and mother. Margaret was an avid member
of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints
Church and Disabled American Veterans.
She is survived by her children, D. Daniel
Rushing of Albuquerque, Charles Keith
Rushing an wife, Diana, of Anchorage, AK,
Donna Lynn Rushing of Coeur D'Alene, ID,
Edward Jeffery D. Rushing of Mesa, AZ
and Pamela Jeanne Cummins-Krupp of
Mesa, AZ; sisters, Bessie Marie Brito and
husband, Rudy of San Francisco, CA and
Salina Emma Pasillas and husband,
Manuel, of Fresno, CA; fourteen
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Margaret was preceded in death by her
husband, DeForest Rushing and one child,
Richard Everett Rushing. Services will be
held on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at
2:00 P.M. at French Mortuary, 7121
Wyoming Blvd. NE. Burial will follow at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery. Friends may visit on
Tuesday, September 4, 2001 from noon
until service time.

[NI0090] [Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from A through L, Date of Import: Oct 3, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.37795.184]

Individual: Cannaday, Beaulah
Birth date: Jan 10, 1905
Death date: Dec 1987
Social Security #: 446-24-9374
Last residence: OK 73110
State of issue: OK

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