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Rust, Henry
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FIRST: Henry
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| BORN: 18 Aug 1807
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DIED: 6 Jun 1869
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| OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Maryland
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| DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon
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Year of birth, 1808, and year of death, 1869, from the 1936 DAR Cemetery Survey.
MARRIAGE - Henry Rust married Hester Ford 21 Oct 1830 in Baltimore Co., Maryland.
1850 OH CENSUS - Henry Rust, age 42, occupation farmer, b. Maryland, is enumerated with Hester, age 35, b. Maryland, along with Charles, b. Maryland, age 17, Jesse, age 15, b. Ohio, Henry, age 13, b. Ohio, Jacob, age 11, b. Ohio, William, age 9, b. Ohio, Mary A. [twin], age 6, b. Ohio, Harriet A. [twin], age 6, b. Ohio, Hester A., age 4, b. Ohio, Abram, age 2, b. Ohio, and Newton, age 6 months, b. Ohio.
1860 IL CENSUS - Henry Rest [sic], age 53, occupation farmer, b. Maryland, is enumerated with Hester, age 46, b. Maryland, along with Jacob, age 21, b. Ohio, William, age 19, b. Ohio, Harriet A., age 16 [twin], b. Ohio, Mary A., age 16 [twin], b. Ohio, Hester A., age 12, b. Ohio, Abram, age 12, b. Ohio, J. Newton, age 10, b. Ohio, Nancy J., age 7, b. Ohio, John V., age 6, b. Illinois, and Columbus, age 1, b. Illinois.
BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - WPA Interview of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Thompson, 1939):
[Mrs. Thompson's details of her own family history]
"My father was Henry Rust and his father was Henry Rust. Grandfather Rust was in Oregon not later than 1852. He died in Polk County in 1869 at the age of 61. Grandmother Rust died in 1896 at the age of 94. Their children were Charles, Jesse, Henry (my father), Jacob, William, Mary Ann (Buckley), Harriet Ann (Connor), Hester Ann (Crank), Abraham, Newton, Jasper, Nancy Jane (Waymire), John and Christopher. Most of them came west with grandfather or were born in Oregon.
My mother was Nancy Ann Belieu. I do not remember the date she came to Oregon, but it was the time of the Mountain Meadow Massacre. They were camped near the scene of the massacre, and the morning two wagons came into camp and reported the happening. Mother's folks went back to the scene of the killing to care for the dead. Mother was a second cousin to Mrs. Angelina Belieu Carter who died last year at the age of 102 years.
Father did not come to Oregon with Grandfather Rust, but came later by way of California. My father's children were Jesse W., Hester O.(myself), Chester A., Elmer O. and Ellison E. (twins), Henry A., Rolla A., Ella (Curtis), John A., and Cleve W."
Historical Records Survey
June 21,1939
BIOGRAPHICAL (Authored by Marian Johnson):
Father Henry Rust died 6 Jun 1869- 61 Years, 9 months and 19 days. He was buried at Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church. This is 4 miles N.E. of Marion, 2 miles west of West Stayton and 4 miles west of Aumsville. It is about 15 miles S.E. of Salem, Oregon.
Henry Rust worked on the first railroad in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - Charter granted 26 Feb 1827. He later lived in Ohio where all of his children were born with the exception of John Nelson and Christopher Columbus Rust who were born in Illinois. In the fall of 1854, he moved from Ohio to Adams Co, Illinois. In May 1864 the family started across the plains by covered wagon. They reached Boise City, Idaho in October 1864. Henry’s older brother, George, remained in Illinois. He had served in the War of 1812. Daughter Hester Ann married George W. Crank and moved to Missouri in 1863; they never came west. Son Jesse and his family left his father's wagon train at Soda Springs, Utah. He later moved on to California. The teams of horses were stolen by Indians at the first camp in Oregon on the Malhuer River. The family stayed over winter in a log house on the Halcomb Place, and worked in a sawmill until the fall of 1865, when William traded his old gun to John Buckley for a horse. Thus securing a poor team they continued on to Oregon; (Mary Ann had married John Buckley and sister Harriet Ann married Jim Conner this same winter). Hester Ann Ford Rust died 7 Sep 1896 at Elmira, Ca.
PHOTOGRAPHS of Henry Rust, and his wife Hester Ford Rust (who is not buried at Pleasant Grove Cemetery), shown courtesy of Marian W. Johnson.
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Henry Rust
[broken and repaired - unreadable]
June [cannot read rest of the date]
Aged
61 y's 9 m's
19 d's
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--- this yet he had a -----
--- reached beyond this ---
[cannot read entire inscription]
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1936 DAR Survey
Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850
1850 OH CENSUS (Clermont Co., Goshen, FA #1410)
1860 IL CENSUS (Adams Co., Lima, FA #3291)
WPA Interview, Benton Co., Oregon
Marian W. Johnson
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