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war he returned to his native county of Warren and until 1901 resided at Nineveh, then moved to Haymarket, Prince William count}-, where he now resides. He is six feet four inches in height, proud of bearing, handsome of face and form, a Virginian of the old type. His services and those of his cousin. General Albert B. Rust, form a chap- ter of loyal service to the cause of the Con- federacy that is as well one of the brightest pages in the family history. He had six first cousins in the army and fotir were killed.

He married, December 22, 1873, Nannie Antrim McKay, born October 25, 1848, daughter of Joshua and Esther Ann (Hay- cock) McKay, and a descendant of the An- trim family of Ireland, representatives of which came to Pennsylvania with William Penn in 1682. The McKays settled in the valley of Virginia, Warren county, in 1732, among the earliest settlers of that region, and much of the land now owned by mem- bers of the family has been held in the Mc- Kay name since that time. Two of the sons of Joshua and Esther Ann (Haycock) Mc- Kay, Frank H. and Antrim, reside in the valley of Virginia. Children of John Rob- ert and Nannie Antrim ( McKay) Rust, all of whom, with the exception of John W., re- side in Haymarket, Prince William county, Virginia: Esther May, born November 18, 1875, married Charles J. Gillis ; Robert An- trim, born September 4, 1S77, a farmer, mar- ried Elizabeth Jones and has a daughter, Elizabeth Antrim ; Albert Breckenridge, born October 12, 1S79, a farmer; John War- wick, of whom further.

John Warwick Rust, youngest son of John Robert and Nannie Antrim (McKay) Rust, was born in Warren county, Virginia, No- vember 8, 1881. His youth was spent in his native county, where he attended the public schools, and for two years he was a student at Eastern College, Front Royal, Virginia. He prepared for the legal profession in a Fairfax law office, and after thorough prepa- ration took his bar examination in Rich- mond, in June, 1907. Since that time he has been located at Fairfax Court House, and conducts a generous practice in the state and federal courts of his district, the six- teenth judicial district of Virginia. His early success and high standing in the law is a favorable augury for a brilliant future. He is a member of the numerous bar asso- ciations, is a Democrat in political prefer-

ence, and in religious faith is a Presby- terian.

Mr. Rust married, September 27, 191 1, Anne Hooe, daughter of Howson (2) Hooe, granddaughter of Howson (i) Hooe, and his wife, Katherine (McLean) Hooe. How- son (2) Hooe was born August 2, 1845, mar- ried, March 18, 1880, Henrietta Daniell, born December 13, 1850, daughter of Captain Ralph A. C. Daniell, of the English army, who came to Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1873. Anne Hooe was the only child of Howson and Henrietta (Daniell) Hooe. John W. and Anne (Hooe) Rust have two daughters, Ivatharine Warwick and Elea- nor McLean Rust.

(The Hooe Family).

Arms: "Azure, a fret argent, and chief sable." "The absence of a crest denotes its antiquity, as crests were not generally used in English heraldry prior to 1300." "Hooe is a corruption of the Saxon Hough, and sig- nifies high noble."

The Hooe family of Virginia traces de- scent from Robert Hooe, of Hoo county, Kentshire, England, who died about the year 1000. His son, Sir Thomas Hooe, died in October, 1018, leaving Sir Robert Hooe, Knt., who died in 1129, and was succeeded by his son, Robert Hoo, Knt. The line con- tinues unbroken down to Sir Thomas Hoo, 1410, whose son. Sir Thomas Hoo, married and died, leaving Sir Thomas Hoo, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Echingham, and their son, Thomas, was the last of the lords of the manor of Hoo. He was created a baron with the title of Lord Hoo and Hasting in the reign of Henry VI. and was also made a knight of the Garter.

A young brother of Thomas, Lord Hoo and baron of Flastings, settled in Wales, and from him descended Rhuys (Rice) Hoo, or Hooe, born in Wales in 1599, died in Virginia in 1654. In Hotten we find the following entry: "Rice Hooe, aged 36, em- barqued in the America, from the Town of Gravesend June 23, 1635." In 1637 Rice Hooe received a grant of seven hundred acres of land in James City county ; on May 9, 1638, a grant of twelve hundred acres: and in 1649 '^ grant for nineteen hundred and sixty-nine acres, all given, as was the custom of the day, as rewards for his activ- ity in bringing colonists from England. Rice Hooe was in the colony at a very early date, as he was a member of the house of