The word that comes to mind for me, in trying to characterize the Rusts and especially John Rust, is “Amodeian.” The Rust boysJohn D. Rust was born in 1892 near the now-defunct town of Necessity, Texas. Publicity photo of the Rust cotton picker provided by the World’s Fair of 1940. Holley, the historian, further blames John Rust's perfectionism: "At a time when the Rust picker should have gone into production, John Rust did not believe the machine was ready. The Rust Cotton Picker Company went bankrupt; John and Mack Rust both took other jobs, as did their wives, to get by.