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A Brief Study of Thomas J. Rusk, 1835-1856 189
book, and he thought if he had no book he would not be sent to
school any more.'0
Thomas J. Rusk retained a deep affection for his parents
throughout his life. After his father's death, Thomas J. and
David Rusk assumed practically the entire responsibility for the
support of their mother. Both brothers urged her to come to
Texas and make her home with them, but this she steadfastly
refused to do because she felt that she could not leave Rachel,
her youngest child. Rachel was married and had a home and
family of her own; but the mother did not seem to feel that she
could leave her. Perhaps, the long trip to Texas daunted her in
her advanced years, in spite of the fact that five of her seven
children made Texas their home."1 Tom and his wife made one
visit to his mother, but the other children never returned to the
old home.12
Thomas Jefferson Rusk had five sisters, Easter Sterritt, Mary,
Nancy, Jane, and Rachel. Easter married Nolen L. Meroney
and lived in Nancoochee in Habersham County, Georgia, for a
time. In 1844 her mother and more than one of her sisters was
with her. Easter and her family later moved to Texas and set-
tled in Nacogdoches, as did Mary, who had married a man named
Bruce, and Jane, who had married a man named Thrift. Nancy
and Rachel remained near the old hime. The two brothers wrote
frequently to their mother and sisters and advised and helped
them whenever possible.'3
On Thursday, the 4th day of January, 1827, Thomas J. Rusk,
a young attorney of Clarksville, Georgia, was married to Mary
F., lovely daughter of General John Cleveland. Thomas Jeffer-
son Rusk had moved some twenty-five or thirty miles west of his
old home and in 1825 had begun the practice of law in Clarks-
ville. In two years' time he had succeeded well enough in his
profession to marry, and he rapidly rose to prominence as a mem-
ber of the bar.4 He also became a partner of his father-in-law
in the mercantile business.
On Sunday, the 24th day of February, 1928, a son, Benjamin
"Statement of John Rusk, 1928.
nLetters in the David Rusk Papers. Courtesy of Miss Helen Rusk.
"Letter from Mrs. Emory Clapp. Statement of John Rusk.
Letters in the David Rusk Papers. Courtesy of Miss Helen Rusk.
"Stayton, in Tewas Law Review, October, 1925, ,p. 8.
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