Editing Albert Rust (section)

== Later life and death ==
After the war Rust moved from his home in [[El Dorado, Arkansas]], across the [[Arkansas River]] from [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]. He returned to Washington as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was even a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1869 before [[Congressional Reconstruction]] began and former Confederates were forbidden to hold elective office and he withdrew himself from candidacy. On April 3, 1870, he died in [[Pulaski County, Arkansas|Pulaski County]], [[Arkansas]], from a [[brain abscess]], while his wife and children were away visiting family in Virginia. His burial place is the subject of some dispute. Contemporary accounts state that he was buried at the historic [[Mount Holly Cemetery]] in Little Rock; his old Congressional biography reports his "interment in the Old Methodist Cemetery."<ref>[https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000544 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-present]</ref> A new Congressional Biography reports he is buried in the Oakland and Fraternal Cemetery<ref>[https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000544 Congressional Biography Albert Rust 2023]</ref> at Little Rock.