Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Rushing, Francis M. 1833 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    FRANCIS M. RUSHING, M. D., physician and surgeon, at Elba, was born in
Montgomery county, Ala., in 1833. He is a son of Malachi and and Telitha (Dykes)
Rushing, native of Beaufort district, S. C., the former born in 1792, the latter
a few years later. They were both liberally educated, married in their native
state, and in 1818 removed to Montgomery county, Ala., when there were but two
houses in Montgomery. They located first on the prairie and then moved to Dublin
in the piney woods, where they both died when Francis M. was a little boy, the
mother when he was seven years old, the father a few years later. Mr. Rushing
was a farmer, and served a short time in the war of 1812, as a substitute for
his brother. His father, Matthew Rushing, was probably born and died in South
Carolina, but his wife came to Alabama and died in Pike county. Grandfather
Dykes died in South Carolina when the mother of Francis M. was a little girl.
Francis M. Rushing was the sixth of a family of six sons and one daughter:
Thomas A., died when a young man; Baron DeKalb, now of Knox Hill, Fla., was a
sergeant in the Thirty-third Alabama regiment during the late war; Stephen Dykes
Decatur, died in Texas after the war; having served in the Eighth Alabama;
William McDonough died in Texas after the war; Andrew J., died when a young man;
Rebecca, his isster, died when a young lady. Whan Francis M., was about twelve
years old, being an orphan, he and a brother went to Pike county, Ala. He lived
with an uncle until he was sixteen years old, working on the farm and attending
school in the winter time. Becoming dissatisfied with his lot he began life for
himself, working on a farm and attending school as he had means. He succeeded in
obtaining a fair education, and in 1855 became a clerk in the office of Probate
Judge. P. D. Costello, continuing in this place until 1857, when he became clerk
in a store, and at the same time read medicine with Drs. Blue & Moore. In 1861
he graduated from the medical department of the university of Louisiana, and
then practiced at Elba until 1862, when he was made surgeon of the Twenty-fifth
Alabama, and spent some months at Corinth, Miss. His health failing, he resigned
and returned home, and practiced his profession at Bullock until 1863, when he
joined the home guards and served as first lieutenant at Pollard, Pensacola, and
other places, participating in several minor battles and skirmishes. In 1859 he
married Fannie V. Yelverton, daughter of Judge G. T. Yelverton, who came from
Georgia to Alabama, finally locating at Elba, where Judge Yelverton is buried;
Mrs. Yelverton is still living. Judge Yelverton was a prominent attorney and was
a member of the legislature. He was also county judge of Dale and Coffee
counties, and was a commissioner to Florida to negotiate for the transfer of
West Florida to Alabama. He was also a member of the secession convention. He
raised a regiment for service in the late war, but was not called into active
service. Mrs. Rushing was born in Montgomery county, and died in 1877. She was a
member of the Baptist church, and the mother of four sons and four daughters,
viz.: Martha A., wife of John B. Harper, of Geneva; William M.; John B.; Grappa
M., a physician at Nevada, Texas, a graduate of Mobile Medical college; Fannie
M.; Tupp; Delia, and Minneola. Dr. Rushing is one of the oldest and most
prominent physicans of Coffee county, and is both well and favorably known. He
is a member of the State Medical association; and has been one of the counselors
for six years, and is president of Coffee County Medical society. In 1878 he was
elected to the legislature, and in 1880 to the senate from Coffee, Henry, Dale
and Geneva counties. He introduced several measures that became laws. In August,
1892, he was elected probate judge of Coffee county, Ala., without seeking the
office. Since then he has been retired from politics. He has been a Mason since
1857, and is a member of Elba lodge, No. 170, A. F. & A. M. He has some farming
interests, is popular with his people and is in all respects a self-made and
successful man.




Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 680-681

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