Pike County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Rushing, Joseph Johnston 
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Cemetery:           Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, Pike Co., AL
Name:               Joseph Johnston Rushing

Date Of Photograph: February 20, 2005
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JOSEPH J. RUSHING
OCT. 9, 1868
MAR. 8, 1953

Additional Comments:
Joseph Johnston Rushing married Ella Melissa Spradley on 8 Sep 1897 Ansley, 
Pike Co., AL. They are buried side by side.

Joseph is the son of John Eager Howard Rushing and Eliza Jane Jenerett.
>From Polk's Montgomey (Montgomery County, Ala.) City Directory Vol. 1953 XLVI 
including Boylston and Chisholm. Price $40.00 - Rushing, Jos J. (Ella S.) 
h1925 West. h = household. Researched by Ron Bridges on 23 Feb 2003.

He owned and operated a shoe repair shop in Troy, Pike Co., AL.

The following article in the Alabama Journal on 9 Mar 1953:  J. J. Rushing, 84 
died in Montgomery, Alabama. Widow, Mrs. Ella Spradley Rushing; two daughters, 
Mrs. Kate Sellers and Mrs. Lewis Black; two brothers, Robert Rushing, San 
Antonio, Texas and Jack Rushing of Troy, Alabama; two sisters, Mrs. Mollie 
Howard and Mrs. J. W. Redmond of Troy, Alabama. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery, 
Troy, Alabama.

In a funeral record, written by Ella, his wife: Joseph Johnston Rushing. He 
died 12:45 AM on March 8, 1953. His residence address was 1925 West St., 
Montgomery, AL & phone # 24208. He resided in Montgomery for 10 years. He was 
not a veteran. She was 79 years old when he died. The services were held in 
McGhee Funeral Home in Troy, Alabama, on March 9, 1953, at 11:00 AM. The 
minister officiating: Rev. R. T. McLeod. Music by Authur Brown and Glenny 
McLeod. Hymn: "Does Jesus Care". Organist : Mrs Houston. Pall Bearers: Drue H. 
Lackey, Jr., Donald Fitzjerald, Pursur Powell, Ray Spradley, Aubrey Jordan, 
and Devon Pippin. Honorary Pall Bearers: Doyle Wyatt, James Floyd, Jake 
Chaffin, E. M. Oliver, Byron Holland, Cody Harris J. D. Witherington, and 
Jimmie Harris.

In a funeral record, Ella records his name:  Joseph Johnston Rushing.

In the 1880 Federal Census of Pike Co., AL his name is listed as Johnson.

On 18 May 2000 Foye Ivey told me that her father, Joseph, made his own eggnog 
for Christmas and on occasions he would put a little whiskey in the eggnog.  
She also said he rowed his own cigarettes with Bull Durham tobacco. 

William H. Rushing, the son of Mathew M. (Mack) Rushing & the first cousin of 
Joseph Johnston Rushing, signed Joseph's Funeral Record Book.

Ralph Roscoe Rushing, the son of Robert E. Lee Rushing & the nephew of Joseph 
Johnston Rushing, signed Joseph's Funeral Record Book. 


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