Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:26:10 -0400
From: Koryn.Troxell
To: rushings Website
Koryn Troxell (502) 564-4953
[Living person information removed].
[NI04446] In the 1850 census they are living next farm from a NC and TN Davis family whose youngest Calvin age 7 was born in Alabama. Coincidence or is Andrew J. Davis a brother of Frances?
[NI04475]
Marion Daily Republican:
MRS. L. HUNTER PASSED AWAY
Young Mother Died in Herrin Hospital following the Birth of Son Friday.
Mrs. Eunice F. Hunter, wife of Lee Hunter of 710 North Johnston Street died in the Herrin hospital on Satuday morning following the birth of an infant son Friday afternoon.
The deceased was born at Makanda March 26, 1900, and was the daughter of F. G. Rushing and Cora Brandon Rushing. She attended the rural schools near her home and later attended the Carbondale Normal. She was married at Progress, Kentucky, April 9, 1918, to Lee M. Hunter of Marion. The infant Lawrence Lee Hunter born Friday is her only child.
Mrs. Hunter leaves four brothers, Eldon, Robert, James, and cecil Rushing and two sisters, Margaret and Virginia Rushing, all of Carbondale.
She was a member of the First baptist church here, and held membership in the Order of Eastern Star.
Funeral services at 3:30 Sunday at the First baptist Church with Rev. M. A. Smoot in charge. Interment at the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Note: I know that information in the news article regarding the death of Laurence Lee Hunter's mother is incorrect. It lists "Cecile" as male and the spelling is incorrect too. My Aunt Cecile (Langan) just passed away about a year ago.
- Cassandra Joy Rushing - 2/3/2003 in e-mail to Dan Rushing
[NI04492]
In 1859 Davis C. Rushing was declared insane and Richard P. Rushing appointed guardian of his estate. Davis was sent to a hospital in Memphis. Mahala was still alive in July of 1871 when she was sued by R. P. Rushing suggesting that Davis has remained incompetent or something else has happened to him. Although the 1860 census lists him as living at home in Benton County.
STATE OF TENNESSEE
COUNTY OF BENTON
February 07, 1859
At a County Court began & held for the County of Benton on the First Monday
in February it being the 7th day of said month in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine of American Independence the
83rd year there being present and presiding on the bench the worshipped
__?__to wit ICHABOD FANNER Chair, NEEDHAW SHORT and JAMES F. PRESSOU when
the following proceedings were had.
Personally appeared in open court R.P. RUSHING who is this day appointed
guardian of DAVIS C. RUSHING a Lunatic and personally came into court with
him A.C. PRESSOU and ISAAC ANDERSON his securities who appeared and
acknowledged the due execution of there land in the sum of two thousand
dollars conditioned as the land directs Bond as follow to wit:
Know all men by these presents that we R.P. RUSHING, A.C. PRESSOU, & ISSAC
ANDERSON all of this county of Benton and State of Tennessee are firmly
bound unto the State of Tennessee in the sum of two thousand dollars in
trust for the use and benefit of DAVIS C. RUSHING who is a Lunatic and to
those who has claims upon this county and the County Court hath committed to
the care of RICHARD P. RUSHING.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above bound
RICHARD P RUSHING has this day been appointed guardian of
DAVIS C. RUSHING a Lunatic.
If the said RICHARD P. RUSHING shall faithfully execute his guardianship by
securing and improving the estate of the said DAVIS C. RUSHING that shall
come into his hands possession or knowledge for the use of the said DAVIS C.
RUSHING and whose who have claims upon this county and shall exhibit to the
next term of the County Court of Benton County upon oath an account of all
the estate of the said Lunatic when he shall have received in to his hands
possession or knowledge and annually account to the County Court of said
County a statement of the profits and disbursements of the Estate of the
said Lunatic and shall also account for the property of said Lunatic when
may hereafter come to his hands and by reason of his appointment and shall
in all other respects discharge his duties as such guardian agreeable to
this obligation.
R.P. RUSHIGH
A.C. PRESSOU
ISAAC ANDERSON
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STATE OF TENNESSEE
BENTON COUNTY
MARCH 1859
The following proceedings were had at the March Term of the County Court 1859. The sale bill
of DAVIS C RUSHING a Lunatic being returned into court by R.P. RUSHING guardian and oath having
been made to the same it is ordered by the court to be recorded. Sale Bill follows
A list of property sold at D.C. RUSHINGS March 5, 1859:
Spotted cow & calf W.A. PRESSOU $ 3.50
Red ___________ W.A. PRESSOU 3.00
White__________ THOMAS WARD 3.00
Mules H. (W?) GREER 110.00
5 C____hogs SIMPSON______ 5.05
5__________ JOSEPH GREER 3.70
7 Chairs JOSEPH GREER 4.00
Ox-cart M(?) R BLOODWORTH 16.75
___________ ISAAC WATSON 3.50
_______Cane ROBERT WARD 14.90
Tobacco per_______ M.T. PRESSON (703 LBS) 85.12 and rec'd
from the proceedings is of Tobacco shipped ???????
State of Tennessee Benton County Personally appeared in open court, RICHARD P RUSHING and made
oath in ______form of _______that the above is a just and perfect sale will of the property
sold by him belonging to D.C. RUSHING an insane person in the hospital at Nashville said
property sold by said RUSHING as guardian to pay debts against said D.C. RUSHING on the 5th day
of March 1859.
[signature] WM. MCNALLY, CLERK this might be McCaulley ?
[signature] R.P. RUSHING, Guardian
State of Tennessee
Benton County
I, (Wm.)MCNALLY (?) clerk of said County Court certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the
appointment of R.P. RUSHING guardian of DAVIS C RUSHING and of the entire proceedings so far as
remains of record in any office witnesses my hand at office the 24th March 1859
[signature](Wm) MCNALLY (?)
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JULY 1871
BENTON COUNTY TN
State of Tennessee to the Sheriff of Benton County
A suit is pending in the Chancery Court of Benton County Tennessee in which R.P. RUSHING is
complainant and MAHALEY RUSHING and others are Defendants. It is suggested and of record and
proven that DEFT ISABELLA GREER is dead and that she left BELZORA GREER as her only heir at
Law.
You are therefore commanded to make these facts known to the said WILLIAM WATSON and BELZORA
GREER so that they may appear at the Chancery Court of said County at Camden on the Second
Monday in January next to show cause if any they have or can why the said suit should not be
revived against them.
Witness my hand at office this the 2nd Monday in July 1871
[Signed} G.B. Greer, Com
[NI04497] This William is specifically listed as "Son of Robt." in the 1820 census. His age is listed as 26-45, but he probably is in the lower end of this age range the census indicated 1 female under 10 and one female 16-26 in his household.
[NI04563]
Champ Rushing
MORGANFIELD [Henderson County, KY] --
Champ Rushing, 82, died at 8:27 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000, at his home here.
He was a member and deacon at First Baptist Church in Morganfield and a Sunday School teacher. He was an active member and former officer of the Retired Teachers Association and had taught school for 33 years. He was a World War II veteran.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Wanda, who died in 1989.
Survivors include two daughters, Donna Mason of Morganfield and Bonnie Morrow of Sturgis; two sons, John Rushing of Jefferson, Md., and Roger Rushing of Peachtree City, Ga.; two sisters, Mae Symthe of Hoopston, Ill., and Geraldine Wroughton of Urbana, Ill.; two brothers, Roy Rushing of Metropolis, Ill., and Don Rushing of Brookport, Ill.; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Morganfield. The Rev. Mark Galloway will officiate. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Morganfield.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today and after 11 a.m. Monday at Whitsell Funeral Home in Morganfield.
[NI04566] Rushing, Stone County, Arkansas was settled by Ephraim Owen Rushing and his family in about 1873. Ephraim was born in Calloway County, Kentucky on 9 Oct 1839 and died, 29 Aug 1910 in Rushing, Stone County, Arkansas. Census 1850 and 1870 show he was living in Johnson County, Illinois. Ephraim was a Sargent in the Union Army and fought at Vicksburg. He was the first postmaster in Rushing, Arkansas.
[NI04692]
The family of Peter is based on tentative conclusions and speculations of descendant Lee Rushing of
Port Charles, Florida, outlined in letters dated January 26 and May 27, 1993, to David Donahue, and on the research of the late Georgia Maxwell Cox, Ozark, Illinois. Peter seems to have six sons, two daughters, and a wife in the 1820 census. Census data in 1830 in Bedford Co., Tennessee: 21113001-1101201.
So he moved to Bedford Co., TN, before 1820 and was in Calloway Co., KY, in 1840. He probably died in Johnson Co., IL. Most of Peter's descendants are in southern Illinois. However, one line of descendants eventually moved back to Tennessee, settling variously in Perry, Decatur, and Dyer Cos. The Rushings at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Decatur Co. are Peter's descendants.
If Abraham is not the sixth son of Peter, who is? is there a better fit for Abraham? do you have another idea? Click here- please write.
[NI04693]
Dennis Rushing was a corporal in captain Gray's Company of the Second Regiment of the Tennessee Militia infantry in the War of 1812. He was one of the first settlers in Benton County and settled in what is now the Rushing Creek community.
Online at: http://www.tnyesterday.com/families/rushing/dennisrushing.html This website is the preserved work of David L Donahue ("from the research of Norma Rushing Roberts and Bill Rushing"). It should be checked against records before adding it to your own family tree.
[NI04696] There is no 1870 census listing for this Asa Rushing.
