R. C. Rushing, trustee of Houston County, was born July 4, 1831, within four miles of Erin. He was the third of a family of seven children of Mark and Margaret (McDonald) Rushing. The father was born in Anson, N.C., and the mother in Moore County, N.C. They came to Tennessee at a very early day and settled within the present limits of Houston County, where they lived and died. The father was a farmer and died in 1859; the mother, who was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, having preceded him to her long home about two years. R. C. was reared on a farm and secured a limited education. At the age of twenty-four years he married and began farming on rented ground. In two years he bought land where he now lives, and ever since has successfully continued agriculture. He has been identified with public interests several times, having been an officer in Stewart County and was the first sheriff of Houston County. In 1878 he was elected to his present trust, having filled the same office one term before. He also owns an interest in a saw-mill. He was married, march 15, 1858, to M.J. Lockhart, a native of Houston County. Both Mr. Rushing and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church. He is one of the prominent and self-made citizens of Houston County.

Transcribed by Susan Knight Gore

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.