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Adam & Bessie's Family Page
The Rushing family began as slaves on a farm owned by
The property is located just at the Anson County and Union County Line off of Huggins Rd on a hill back in the woods, there is a Rushing burial ground there and the remains of an old houes.
There were 3 of the Rushing Brothers (white). One
This brother was chased into NC. After finding out
When the family refused to tell where the outlaw
One of the people executed was a Slave.
The Rushing family built monuments of stone for each
At the end of the Civil war when the Slave were freed
All of the Slaves left the farm walking - going
Our family came out of the Lancaster group.
Hampton Rushing was born in slavery on the plantation of Jessie Rushing
and was sold the the McCray family, later sold to William Rushing
and was freed from this plantation.
Hampton married Mary Adeline and the had 5 children:
Billy - Louise - Meanne - John and Jim.
Hampton married a second time to Johnnie(Rena) and they had 11
children:
Mattie - Mike - Ike - Jess - Luther - Sherman - George - Sarah and Theadore.
Hampton was a Blacksmith by trade. He helped found Redding Springs Church.
Hampton Rushing passed at the age of 84 years.
3rd. son of Hampton Rushing
Jim Rushing Married Laura McMillian (Her father was named Adam) and they had 4 son's
One daughter: Annie Mae
Hampton married Aggie Mae
Harry married Mary Jane
Adam Rushing married Bessie
Children: 9
They setteled in Union County NC, Purchasing a parcel of property in south western Union County. A state road was built leading to this property named Rushing Road. This became Rushingville.
Jimmy married Rosa
Children: 1
5th Son of Hampton Rushing
Sherman Rushing Married Laura Jane (Steward) and they had 4 son's
4 daughter's: Margaret Ann-Evelyn-Lessy and Annie.
2nd Wife: Effie(Crockett)
Tribes of Sherman and Laura Ann(unfinished)
Tribe of Essic
Louis-Leroy-Stanley and Ernest
Tribe of Annie
Morris and Sherrrie Ann
To be continued
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a Slave Owner named Rushing that lived in what was
then Anson County - Now "White Store Area" of Union County.
of them lived in Virginia and was considered an Outlaw
to the war by the Union Army during the Civil war.
that he had a brother in Anson County the Union army
went to this brothers farm (where the slave were that
became the Rushing"s) looking for the Outlaw brother.
brother was, The Army ordered that one(1) person be
killed each day until they found the outlaw brother.
The Army proceeded to execute 3 people before they
were told where the outlaw brother was.
person executed and the monuments are still visible today.
they took the name of their slave owner
(which was the custom at the time).
somewhere, anywhere away from slavery,
some of them walked in a North Easterly direction into
the area that is now Marshville NC, and settled there,
the others walked in South westerly direction towards
what is now Lancaster SC.
Hampton - Harry - Adam and Jimmy
Children:
Martha - Husband Chester Robinson
Minnie - Husband Morris Law
Laura - Husband London Mitchell
James(JW) - Wife Elizabeth
Beatrice - Husband Cal Chambers
They setteled in the area of Chapel Hill NC
(They have a little Rushingville there)
Children: (bunch)
They setteled in Washington DC
Tribe Of Adam and Bessie
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Essic-David-Sherman Arthurand Eddie Jones
