Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Rush, Abner 1797 - 1880
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Abner Rush (deceased) settled in what is now Van Buren township in 1821, two
years after the first settlers came. He was born in New York in 1797, and is the
son of James and Sarah Rush, both natives of Maryland. Abner Bush was married in
1819 to Sarah Harman, by whom he had two children: Milton (deceased) and Cyrus.
Her father, Thomas Harman, emigrated from Germany prior to the revolution, and
was seized by the British and pressed into the service, where he remained two
years. Escaping, he joined the Continental army, in which he served the
remaining five years of the war. Her mother was a native of Maryland, and a
member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Abner Bush and wife's parents both
emigrated to Ohio when they were children, and at a very early time in the
settlement of Ohio. For several years after they came to Fountain county schools
were few and terms were short. That they might give their two boys a fair
education they taught them at home, imposing upon each a lesson to be learned
daily, this task to take precedence over all others. The result can be imagined.
Abner Rusk [sic] taught the first school in his neighborhood, where he settled
in 1825. In 1843 he went to Iowa, where he died in March 1880. His wife died in
1876, aged seventy-six years, retaining her mind till the last. Cyrus lives on
the old homestead on Sec. 12. He was born in Ohio in 1822. Was married in 1857
to Prescilla Riley, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Riley, natives of New
Jersey, and settled in Fountain county in 1826, where they both departed this
life, the former in June 1880, aged eighty-one; the latter 1860, aged sixty
years. By this union he has three children: Hortense, Eugene, and Hardy. Cyrus
Rush served ten months as a soldier in the late war, in the 116th Ind. Vols.,
and was in several skirmishes. He was visiting friends in the army at the time
of the battle of Shiloh. Though not a soldier, he engaged in the battle for the
Union, and was wounded, being shot in the ankle. He has several times visited
California. He owns an interest in a silver mine in Colorado, land in Missouri
and Illinois, and a fine farm of 800 acres where he resides, in Fountain county.
Mr. Rush is one of the first business men in this section. In politics he is a
radical republican.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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