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- From Findagrave:
Place of Birth: Lincoln County , TN
2nd wife: Drucilla Phelps Lusk 63409384
Bio: TDJ moved with his parents, John and Rachel Tennyson Lusk to Fayette County , AL where he met and married Nancy Pennington on Dec 16, 1841. TDJ, his wife and parents, came to Choctaw County , MS shortly after that. TDJ remained in Choctaw County while his parents settled near Paris in Lafayette County , MS . His brothers and sisters, with the exception of Francis Marion Lusk who lived near him, and his sister Sarah Louisa Pennington who lived in Alabama , settled in Calhoun, Yalobusha and Lafayette counties. TDJ and Nancy made their home near Stewart and Milligan Springs and here their ten children were born.
The Civil War erupted and TDJ and his two eldest sons, John David and William H. went to war. Only TDJ returned. TDJ served in Co. H, 3rd MS Infantry State Troops, Minute Men. His son John David was killed in the Battle of Franklin and is buried in McGavock Confederate Cemetery in Franklin , TN. His son William served as a flag bearer and was fatally wounded. It is unknown where he is buried. The Civil War not only took TDJ's two eldest sons, but left him in reduced circumstances. In spite of Reconstruction, TDJ managed to recover some of his material losses with the help of his sons, when four years after the close of the war his wife Nancy fell ill with fever and died in 1869, leaving him with a large family to care for.
Although his family was strongly Presbyterian, he and Nancy were instrumental in the organization of Milligan Springs Baptist Church on Jan 3, 1865. Nancy , in 1869, became the first burial in its adjacent cemetery. TDJ married Druscilla M. "Cil" Phelps on May 14, 1870. They had no children but she became mother to Nancy 's. Tragedy struck again when his son Robert M. died at age 13.
TDJ died in 1895, having instilled in his children the supreme importance of God, family, education and property -the Scot legacy of his forefathers. Three sons preceded him in death. Seven children and eleven grandchildren survived him. His widow Druscilla lived with TDJ's youngest son Jake and his wife Kate until her death in 1908.
The children of TDJ and Nancy were: 1)John David born 1843 (died in the Civil War); 2)William H. born 1845 (died in the Civil War)' 3)Elizabeth born 1847 who married L.M. Harrison, then Willard Wellman, then, J.W. Wood, then John Robert Oliver; 4)Pleasant James born 1849 who married Hannah Elizabeth Williams; 5)Rufus K.B. born 1851 who married Mary Ophelia Stowers, daughter of Richard and Sara Gaines Stowers; 6)Thomas Newton born 1853 who married Mary Agnes Ringold; 7)Martha born 1857 who married W. Vince Dunlap; 8)Robert M. born 1860 who died at age 13; 9)Mary born 1862 who married James Yancy Oliver; and 10)Jacob Addie born 1865 who married Kate Townsend. TDJ and Nancy 's son Rufus died in Denison , TX on March 25, 1885 and his wife Mary Stowers Lusk died in 1945 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Wichita Falls , TX .
From "The History of Montgomery County"
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1819 - 1895 (75 years)
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