THIRD GENERATION

23. Edward Armstrong Rutledge was born on 21 Nov 1824 in Maury County, Tennessee. ⁽¹¹⁸⁾ He appeared on the census on 9 Oct 1850 in District #5, Wayne County, Tennessee.⁽¹¹⁹⁾ He appeared on the census on 9 Jul 1860 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas. ⁽¹²⁰⁾ He died on 1 Aug 1865 in Anderson Mill, Travis County, Texas.

Biography

Ed Rutledge grew up in Maury County, Tennessee, where his father was a farmer. After marrying Mary Francis Young in Maury County, Tennessee in 1843, he left Maury County with his father-in-law's family for Wayne County. He was in Wayne County at the time of the 1850 Census, and while in Wayne County, he was party to two deeds:

One, a deed of trust filed on May 10, 1852, book G, page 398, Wayne County, was from G. W. Young (his wife's brother) to E. A. Rutledge: "Conveys: all my grocery books and accounts, notes, judgements and all debts whatever may be coming to me by nnote, account or judgement or any oother way to secure payment of $500 due December 25, 1852, due Thomas Young".

The second, also in Wayne County, also a deet of trust, filed on August 20, 1852, book G, page 443, E. A. Rutledge of Wayne County to Thomas Young of Wayne County: "Conveys: one ox wagon, one yoke of oxen, one fine mettle eight days clock and ten head of hogs, recites: A. T. Hassell has obtained judgement before C. B. McLean a Justice of the Peace against me and W. Shipman my security for $41.40 Jonathan Morris to become stayor".

The following sections of the Wayne County Court minutes indicate that Edward Rutledge's employement in Wayne County:

[page 224] Monday March 1st 1852

"Edward A RUTLEDGE came into Court and entered into Bond in the sum of Five hundred dollars payable to D J JONES Chairman of the County Court for the use of the poor house establishment in said county Conditioned that said RUTLEDGE shall perform all the duties as superintendent of said establishment which was approved of by the court & said RUTLEDGE took the necessary oath for his qualification as such superintendent"

April 4, 1853, on p. 348:

"On motion to appropriate to Edward A RUTLEDGE Superintendent of the Poor house the sum of Eighteen dollars for repairs on the house" indicates Edward Rutledge's employement while in Wayne County, Tennessee.

"This day came E. A. RUTLEDGE into Court who was on the 16th day of April Last duly and Lawfully elected Constable for said County by the qualified voeters of the 5th Civil district to fill the unexpired time of James H. WILSON resigned and entered into the following bond to wit [standard bond follows. securities were E. A. RUTLEDGE T H. MABRY Jonathan MORRIS Rewben EAST and William C. BURNS. Bond was for $4000.00. All parties signed]

[page 356] Monday May 2d 1853

And the said E. A. RUTLEDGE and each of his said securities came into open Court and acknowledged the due executed the foregoing bond for the purposes therein expresed which was approved of by the Court and ordered to be recorded and whereupon the said RUTLEDGE took the necessary oaths for his qualification"

Rutledge is last mentioned in the Wayne County minutes in April 1854.

The youngs and Rutledges moved to Cass County, Texas, in 1854. The Youngs then went to Washington County, Arkansas, and Ed Rutledge proceeded to Pond Springs, Williamson County, where his brother Thomas was the postmster and owned a store and blacksmith shop. His wife, Mary Francis, never saw her family again.

At Pond Springs, Ed Rutledge boarded with his brother near his store. When the civil war came, we do not know when of if he served. His brother Tom Rutledge served the confederacy transporting freight for the confederate government between Mexico and Texas. Ed Rutledge may have helped him, however, there are no records one way or the other. About 1863 the family moved to Travis County, near Anderson Mill. Thomas Anderson of the Anderson Mill was freighting at that time, and perhaps Tom and Ed Rutledge worked for him (Ed's son John married a daughter of Tom Anderson).

A family story told to J. B. Beard by his grandfather John W. Rutledge states that Ed Rutledge served in the war and received a hip injury in the war, someplace in Virginia, and had to walk all the way back to Texas (there are no military records to support this). Maud Isaacks said he was crippled when he fell off a horse. However, John was only 5 when his father died, but he did remember seeing that his father was crippled, and this account was corroberated by Mildred Rutledge Clark, daughter of John Rutledge. On the 1860 Census, Ed Rutledge is not listed as crippled, so he received this injury between 1860 and 1865. He is shown to own no real estate. His profession was farmer.

After the war, Rutledge died on August 1, 1965, according to family records. There are no probate papers filed in Travis or Williamson County, Texas. In May, 1867, W. P. Rutledge, Edward's oldest son, was listed on the voting register of Travis County (p. 125). In this he stated he had been in the county 4 years and in Texas 14 years.

In the 1870 census, the Rutledges were living next door to Thomas Anderson of the Anderson Mill; they owned no real estate. In 1880 they lived near the Andersons, but not as close as 1870. In 1894, John Rutledge built a house in Austin, at 4005 Guadalupe Street, and his mother resided with him there from that time until her death in the summer of 1899.

He was married to Mary Francis Young (daughter of Thomas Young and Martha "Patsey" Joyce) on 11 Apr 1843 in Maury County, Tennessee. Mary Francis Young was born on 3 Mar 1828 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. ⁽¹¹⁸⁾ She appeared on the census on 12 Aug 1870 in P. O. Austin, Travis County, Texas.⁽¹²¹⁾ She appeared on the census on 5 Jun 1880 in Polling Place No. 12, Travis County, Texas. ⁽¹²²⁾ She died Summer 1899 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. She was buried Summer 1899 in Fiskville Cemetery, Travis County, Texas. Edward Armstrong Rutledge and Mary Francis Young had the following children:

142 i. Infant Rutledge was born in 1844 in Maury County, Tennessee. He (or she) died in 1844 in Maury County, Tennessee.
+143 ii. William Pinckney Rutledge.
144 iii. Martha Jane Rutledge was born on 18 Mar 1848 in Maury County, Tennessee. ⁽¹¹⁸⁾ She died on 29 May 1865 in Anderson Mill, Travis County, Texas.
+145 iv. James Thomas Rutledge.
+146 v. Mary Alice Rutledge.
147 vi. Gustavus Adolphus Henry Rutledge was born on 11 Apr 1855 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.⁽¹¹⁸⁾ He died on 20 Nov 1869 in Anderson Mill, Travis County, Texas. ⁽¹¹⁸⁾
148 vii. Delila "Dolly" Rutledge was born on 6 Jan 1858 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.⁽¹¹⁸⁾ She died 1860's in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.
+149 viii. John Walker Rutledge.
+150 ix. Minnie Willard Rutledge.
+151 x. Cornelia Ann Rutledge.