This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUST, LANGFORD, COOK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReB.2ACE/2318.1.2 Message Board Post: Thanks for your posting, Linda. Here's what I have: My great-great grandmother was Mary Rust, who married James Elias Langford in Gibson, Tennessee in 1848. Family in the area say she was born about 28 March 1828 in Hawkins, Tennessee. She died 17 Sept. 1911 in Gibson County. I could find no information on her parents, and no information on Rusts in Hawkins county. So I started speculating. I found John and Nancy Rust in the same civil district in the 1850 census as my Mary (about 20 houses away). John and Nancy had a son named Atlas - and my Mary named one of her sons Atlas. John Rust was in the 1840 census in Gibson County. His listing was 1110001-111001. This indicates they possibly had one son and one daughter not listed in the 1850 census as they were already of age by then. That's the right age to be my Mary. John Rust was not in Gibson Co in 1830... and my Mary was born in 1828, NOT in Gibson County. In 1830 I found John Rust in Weakley County, which is right next door to Gibson. Although family says Mary was born in Hawkins Co., I've found no trace of any Rusts in Hawkins Co. In addition, Hawkins is on the other side of the state. John Rust is a hard name to research as there's only about a million of 'em. I did find this posting online: "John Rust, born 1801 was living with his son John in the 1880 census in Heaths, Gibson, Tennessee. The son John was born 1840 and was married to Ellen. Their children were Atlas, Fannie, Jennie, Nara, Estilla, Herman and John, ages 15 to one and all born in Tennessee. John the father was born in North Carolina (John the son and John the grandson b. tenn) with parents born in North Carolina" John Rust and Nancy Cook were married in Granville, NC on 31 March 1823 according to the online marriage records for Granville County on the NC/Graville usgenweb site. Marriage date from Granville County North Carolina marriages online on the NC/Granville Co USGENWEB site. A John Rust is located on page 215 of the Occupant Entry Book, located in the Register of Deeds office in Dresden, TN (from index on Weakley Co. genweb page)The page mentions something about a Weakley/Gibson Land swap in 1837 - is this how John Rust got to Gibson Co? That's all I have so far. I have a copy of a marriage certificate for my James Langford and Mary Rust but there's no indication on it as to who her parents were. I'm now looking for a will for John Rust to see if it would possibly mention a daughter, Mary. Please let me know if you have any information that would shed any light on this. Thanks again for your posting, Trish