Gay Rust and Ernest William Purinton

ERNEST WILLIAM PURINTON, son of CLARA L. BEVARD and DAVID ERNEST PURINTON, was born May 31, 1889,⁴⁵⁶ and died May 18, 1967.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Alliance Cemetery, Box Butte County, Nebraska.⁴⁵⁶

He married GAY RUST on October 30, 1912 in Box Butte County, Nebraska.⁸³⁶⁴ She was born April 25, 1894 in Box Butte County, Nebraska,⁴⁵⁶ and died September 6, 1958 in Box Butte County, Nebraska.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Alliance Cemetery, Box Butte County, Nebraska.^{8398, 456}

• Descendant Reports
  • Samuel Stanley Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ernest W. Purinton)
  • Joseph Baker Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ernest W. Purinton)
  • William Sutherland Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ernest W. Purinton)

Children of GAY RUST and ERNEST WILLIAM PURINTON:

1. SYLVESTER RUST PURINTON, b. December 25, 1913, Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska;⁸³⁹⁶ m. WILMA JEANETTE FENNER on April 12, 1936 in Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska⁸³⁹⁶; d. May 25, 1992, Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon.⁸³⁹⁶

Personal Information

Ernest W. Purinton

• operated a dairy farm in Alliance⁸³⁹²

Gay Rust

• was a member of the Woman's Club, Alliance, Nebraska⁸³⁹⁸
• was a member of the Methodist Church. ⁸³⁹⁸

Marriage Announcements and News

Alliance Herald, October 31, 1912⁸³⁶⁴

Purinton-Rust

At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rust, Sr., four miles northeast of Alliance, Wednesday evening, October 30, 1912, Miss Gay Rust and Earnest W. Purinton were united in marriage by Rev. O. S. Baker, pastor of the Alliance M. E. church. Miss Ida B. Purinton, sister of the groom, acted as bridesmaid, and Jos. R. Rust, brother of the bride, was best man.

Promptly at eight o'clock the contracting parties entered the beautifully decorated parlor to the strains of the wedding march, preceded by the officiating minister and accompanied by the bridesmaid and groomsman. A large number of guests were present, relatives and friends of the bride and groom. After the wedding ceremony had been performed and the newly wedded couple had been showered with congratulations, the company repaired to the dining room where a sumptuous dinner was served.

Mr. and Mrs. Purinton's many friends in this county will be pleased to learn that they will reside north of Alliance, where a home has already been provided by the groom.

Newspaper Articles

Hamilton County Register, January 20, 1922⁸³⁹²

On Monday last we had a visit from E. W. Purinton, of Alliance, who was on the return trip from Wisconsin where he had been to buy a carload, 23 head, of high grade Holstein cows. He had an experience here. They asked him $1.25 a bale for hay that sells in his country for five dollars a ton. It looked to him a little high and he came up town and bought it at 50c a bale, and hired a man to deliver it for 10c a bale, getting the whole for less than half what was charged him at our stockyards, even when he paid retailers profits, a special delivery, and bought in a small amount. It was objected that he had no right do do anything but pay for the hay at prices specified, and he said that if the price had been fixed by the state official at that figure, it was fixed too high. He had done the same at other points and no objection had been made to it, and he would feed his own hay, and if he afterward had to pay triple price for it he would do so. He paid an average of $71 for his Holsteins and said that pure bred yearling bulls could be bought for $80 to $150. The Babcock herd had the finest animals he ever saw. They are making money in dairying and cheese making where hay is $24 a ton, and he thinks he should be able to do something at one fifth the figure. He is a brother of Earl Purinton, who is now at Sterling, but was formerly a day operator at Aurora, and whose wife was Rose Trimpe of this place. They are doing well.

Obituaries

Alliance Daily Times-Herald, September 6, 1958⁸³⁹⁸

Mrs. Gay Purinton Dies Here At 64—52-Year Resident

Mrs. Gay Purinton, 64, died this morning at her farm home, four miles north of Alliance. Mrs. Purinton had lived in the Alliance area for the past 52 years.

She was born April 25, 1894 in Waverly and married Ernest W. Purinton on October 30, 1912. He survives. She was a member of the Methodist Church and the Alliance Rural Woman's Club.

Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Sylvester R. Purinton of Hillsboro, Ore., by four grandchildren, Mrs. Byron Becker of Japan, Linda Lou, Larry Jo and Susan Kay Purinton, all of Hillsboro, Ore.; by one great grandson, Randy B. Becker of Japan; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Rowley of Alliance; and two brothers Henry A. Rust of Alliance and Clyde R. Rust of Sacramento, Calif.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Virgil Anderson officiating.

Burial will be in the Alliance Cemetery.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 15, 19008376	Seward County, Nebraska	David Ernest Purinton Clara L. Bevard Earl Judson Purinton Ernest William Purinton Ida Belle Purinton David Bevard Purinton
April 15, 19108368	Seward County, Nebraska	David Ernest Purinton Clara L. Bevard Ernest William Purinton David Bevard Purinton Herbert Hills Purinton
January 13, 19208378	Boyd, Box Butte, Nebraska	Ernest William Purinton Gay Rust Sylvester Rust Purinton
April 14, 19308399	Boyd, Box Butte, Nebraska	Ernest William Purinton Gay Rust Sylvester Rust Purinton
April 25, 19408400	Boyd, Box Butte, Nebraska	Ernest William Purinton Gay Rust