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(From The Warren Sentinel, date unknown)

DEATH OF MRS. NANNIE ANTRAM RUST      Mrs. Nannie Antram Rust died of pneumonia at her home at Haymarket, Virginia, on Sunday, December 7th, 1924, and was buried at Haymarket on December 9th.      Mrs. Rust was the wife of the late Capt. John R. Rust, Captain of Co. I, 12th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., the Laurel Brigade.      Mrs. Rust was a direct descendant of Robert McKay, who with Joist Hite, were the earliest settlers of the Valley of Virginia, having received their grant of 100,000 acres of land from the King of England in 1732. She lived upon this original grant until she moved to Haymarket, Prince William County, in 1901. She was the daughter of Joshua McKay and Esther Ann McKay of Warren County, Virginia. She was also a direct descendant of John Antram who came over with William Penn.      She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Charles J. Gilliss of Haymarket, Virginia, and three sons, Robert Antram Rust and Albert B. Rust of Haymarket, Virginia, and John W. Rust of Fairfax, Virginia.      Mrs. Rust was a noble Christian woman and much beloved by all who knew her, and her death was a great loss to the community in which she lived. She was of the Presbyterian Faith.

NANCY A. (NANNIE) MC KAY AND THE BATTLE OF FRONT ROYAL MAY 23-24, 1862.

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