Biography of C F Bush, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

C. F. Bush. In mentioning those of foreign birth who have become
closely associated with the farming interests of Mississippi County,
Ark., we should not fail to present an outline of the career of Mr.
Bush, for he is one who has fully borne out the reputation of that
class of industrious, energetic and prudent men of German nativity, who
have risen to prominence in different portions of this country. He was
born in 1832, and was the second in a family of eight children born to
George H. Bush, who came with his family to the United States in 1838,
and settled in the State of Tennessee, where he remained until the
opening of the war, at which time he removed to Mississippi County,
Ark., and began farming on a tract of 160 acres in Chickasawba
Township, and there died three years later. C. F. Bush grew to manhood
on his father's farm, but in 1867 found a worthy companion in the
person of Sarah Ann Garrison, of Mississippi County, she being the
daughter of one of the old residents of the county. Mr. Bush soon after
purchased a tract of 160 acres, all wild land, but some time after sold
eighty acres of this, and purchased eighty acres in another tract, of
which twelve acres were under cultivation. At the present time he has
forty acres under the plow, and will soon have twenty-five acres more
which are almost ready for cultivation. In 1887 he built a good house,
and as far as buildings, fences and orchards are concerned, has his
farm well improved. He is making a specialty of raising a good grade of
stock, and has twenty-five head of horses, and a fine male animal which
has won a good record. His land is fertile, and yields a bale of cotton
to the acre. The following are the children born to himself and wife:
Martha E., wife of J. T. Battles; John Henry, Stenie E., who died at
the age of seven years; Mary A., Minnie and Kittie. Mr. Bush has been a
member of the school board, and is active in school work.