From the Houston Herald, Houston, Texas, MO, USA

Margaret Eddy Smyer Norris this is the only image I have ever seen of her

The following information is what is listed in the book titled "Rust of Virginia" by Ellsworth Marshall Rust.


Robert N Rust was born October 14, 1826 died (killed) July 27, 1862 Wright County, Missouri; married April 19,1846, Margaret Eddy, McMinniville, Warren County Tennessee, born January 18, 1829, died February 9, 1912, daug. William Eddy. She married (2) Jacob Smyer* first name unknown, last name Smyer, killed during Civil War by bushwhackers' married (3) Rev. Jasper Morris, Baptist minister, by whom she had two children, Thomas Morris and Ira Morris.
Children:
1. Taylor
2. Lycurgus C. b. Jan 18, 1848, m. Martha Pendleton
3. Richard Benedict
4. Mary Elizabeth
5. Sarah C. b. July 18,1853, d. Jan 22, 1880, m. Marshal Crawford.
6.Amanda, b. March 7, 1857, d. July 1911, m. J. B. Johnson b. 1853, d. June 6, 1937.
7.Nancy Adeline, b. March 7, 1859, d. June 24, 1905, M. John Farris, b. March 7, 1858, d. Feb 25, 1893.
8. John Calvin, b. March 4, 1861 d. Oct 10 1897, m. Feb 5,1880 Salome McCall.
Robert N. Rust was an officer in the Confederate States Army. In the summer of 1862, he left his command near Springfield, Missouri, for a visit to his family in Texas County, Missouri, where after being outfitted with new homemade clothes, made by the hands of his wife, he started to return to his command afoot through the woods. His body was later discovered near Mountain Grove, Missouri, where it was protected by his widow and children by a box covering until after the war when it was removed to the cemetery near Union Church, near the mouth of Hamilton Creek, which church was later built by Frank G. Simmons and dedicated as a memorial to Robert N. Rust and wife. Mrs. Rust lost a second husband as noted above, who at the time of her marriage with him was a widower with several children. She kept the fifteen children together until they had homes of their own, directing their occupation by day and laying out their night tasks of picking, carding and spining cotton and wool, while at the same time she instructed them in spelling while they worked. She taught her children and step-children to read, write, and simple arithmetic; loved and respected by all, she was a brillian and energetic woman, whom tragedy could not destroy nor adversity discourage.

* Name added swb