Born in Texas, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Mordecai Gillespie
and Mary Seletia (Mullins) Gillespie
Sister of
Lucia (Gillespie) Bates and Fred Gillespie
Wife of
William Fay Rushton
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Mother of
Roma Rushton, Mary Rushton, [private daughter (1920s - unknown)] and William Fay Rushton Jr.
Died
at age 74
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Oct 2015
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Biography
Ethel Rushton was enumerated as wife of the head of household at El Dorado and Smackover Road, Smackover, Union County, Arkansas for the April 10, United States Census, 1930. She was noted as born 1890 in Texas and married. She was first married at the age of twenty-one as seen in an image of the original census. Also included in the household are head Fay Rushton, daughter Roma Rushton, daughter Mary Rushton, daughter Ester Lois Rushton and son Fay Rushton.[1]
As listed in the Find A Grave Index,[2] Ethel Gillespie Rushton is buried at Christies Chapel Cemetery in Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas.[3]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMG2-SRT : 8 December 2015), Ethel Rushton in entry for Fay Rushton, 1930. District ED 36 Sheet Number and Letter 9B Household ID 206 Line Number 96 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number T626 Affiliate Film Number 96 GS Film Number 2339831 Digital Folder Number 004950058 Image Number 01087.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-R99B : 11 July 2016), Ethel Gillespie Rushton, 1963; Burial, Magnolia, Columbia, Arkansas, United States of America, Christies Chapel Cemetery; citing record ID 110864279.
- ↑ Find A Grave website
See also:
- "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDND-K8C : 14 December 2015), Ethel Ruhston in household of William F Ruhston, Magnolia Ward 3, Columbia, Arkansas, United States; citing sheet 2A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,059.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQK2-6NK : accessed 26 September 2016), Ethel Rushton, Ward 2, Camden, Ecore Fabre Township, Ouachita, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 52-8A, sheet 9A, family 193, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 159.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ethel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ethel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ethel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ethel:
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~2.34%
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