General Notes

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Since I sent you the line as descended from David Huffman, it probably
did not include Sarah Ann Wheeler.  She was Thomas J. Rushing's
illegitimate half sister.  When his father died (whichever one he was),
on his deathbed he asked Thomas J. to look after his sister, as
necessary.  She was born about 1842.  She lived with her mother for a
while, but then her mother died, and she lived with some of her mother's
relatives, who mistreated her.
So Thomas J. went and got her and brought her into his home, all her
worldly belongings in a little trunk, as the story goes.  This was after
he was married, but before 1870, as she was there in the 1870 census. She
lived in that household the rest of her life, and outlived him many
years.  In 1910 they were in Jones Co. Texas.  I don't have the
intervening census records.   My grandmother and her sisters knew her as
Aunt Sairy Ann, and remembered her with affection, according to my mother.