Age 74. Never married. Daughter of William Rust (1792-1866) & Elizabeth Rector Rust (1792-1850).
Obituary:
Miss Ella Rust Died Yeterday Morning at the Advanced Age of 73 Years.
Surrounded by grief-stricken relatives and sorrowing friends all that was mortal of Miss Ella Rust yesterday morning at 8:15 o'clock passes beyond the portals of this world into the gardens of peace and happines - that great and glorious kingdom to come. A woman of wonderful sympathy, a sweet disposition, and possessed of all those traits of character that goes to make up the truly good Christian woman. Miss Rust was beloved, esteemed and respected by the rich and poor alike. Her many deeds of Christian kindness, her soothing influence in the chamber of sickness and death, her ever pleasant presence in the household circle endeared her not only to those who knew and loved her at her own fireside, but to those she met in the daily walks of life as well.
Miss Rust was born in Farquhar county, Virginia, in 1821. She was the daughter of Major William Rust and her mother, Elizabeth Rust, was a Miss Rector. She came to Texas in 1853 with her father's family. They first located at Seguin, Tex., where they remained for two years, coming form there to this city, where she devoted the rest of her days to the raising of her two nieces Mrs. Ella Wooten and Fannie Miller, to whom she gave a mother's watchful care and attention. Miss Rust has been an active member of the Episcopal church for 45 years, and her church work has won hundreds of friends, by her kindly Christian work. Two sisters and two brothers survive her. The funeral services will be conducted form St. David's church this afternoon at 3 o'clock and all friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. (Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Tex, Feb 8, 1894 -