Pike County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Rushing, Duard Moody 
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Cemetery:           Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, Pike Co., AL
Name:               Duard Moody Rushing

Date Of Photograph: February 20, 2005
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DUARD HOP RUSHING
AUGUST 14, 1905
MARCH 5, 1949

WEEP NOT HE IS AT REST

Additional Comments:
Hop (his nickname) married Sarah Francis Holly on unknow in unknown. She is 
buried in FL.

Hop is the son of Joseph Johnston Rushing and Ella Melissa Spradley. He buried 
near his mother and father.

The following article appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser, 6 March 1949.

Duard M. (Hop) Rushing, age 44, resident of Montgomery, formerly of Samson, 
Alabama died today. He is survived by the widow, Sarah Holley; two daughters, 
Barbara Ann and Sarah Gail Rushing, and one son, Joseph H. Rushing. Parents 
are Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rushing; two sisters, Mrs. S. E. Sellers and Mrs. Veron 
Ivey.

Another obituary in same paper later that day.

DUARD MOODY RUSHING DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE

    Duard Moody Rushing 44, of Troy, Ala., died here yesterday at the 
Tuberculosis Sanatorium following an extended illness.
    Funeral services will be held today at 4:30 p. m. from McGhee Funeral Home 
in Troy, with the Rev. R. T. McLeod officiating.  Burial will follow in Troy 
Oakwood Cemetery.
    Services include the widow, Sara Francis Rushing, Troy; two daughters, 
Barbara Ann and Sarah Gale Rushing; a son Joe Holley Rushing, all of Troy; 
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rushing, Montgomery, and two sisters, 
Mrs. Vernon Ivey, and Mrs. Earl Sellers, both of Montgomery.   Montgomery 
Advertiser, 6 March 1949. 



Foye Rushing Black informed me that Hop died of TB in a hospital for TB 
patients, located on Fairgrounds Road in Montgomery, 
AL.                                  


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