LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Erastus P. Rust Operated Store In Bremen; Also in Tobacco Business

ERASTUS P. RUST, Muhlenberg County, was born February 1, 1852, in McLean
County, KY, and is the sixth of seven children - six boys and one girl, five
now living - born to John J. and Sallie J. (Coffman) Rust, natives
respectively of Muhlenberg and McLean Counties, and of German descent.  John
J. Rust was the son of John Rust, who married a Miss Anthony, both natives of
Virginia.  He was a farmer and distiller, and one of the first settlers of
Kentucky.  The mother of our subject was a daughter of Benjamin Coffman, a
farmer and distiller, who married A. Noffsinger; they were Virginians.
Erastus P. was reared on a farm and attended the common schools.  he lost his
father and mother on the same day, of milk sickness, in October, 1858.  He
lived with Benjamin Pla [sic] until he was seventeen years of age, when he
engaged in farming for himself until 1881, when he engaged in the mercantile
business in Bremen, which he still continues with success; he was also engaged
in the tobacco trade for two years.  He owns ninety-five acres of land in
McLean County.  He was married February 24, 1873, to Fannie Coffman, of McLean
County, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Deever) Coffman, natives of McLean
County.  By this union six children were born: Sallie J. (deceased), Flora M.,
Mollie S., Nannie S. (deceased), Lillie M. and J.J. Blocher, born June 16,
1885.  Mrs. Rust is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Rust is a Mason
and formerly a Granger.

Rust Coffman Anthony Noffsinger Pla Deever
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McLean VA

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