CEMETERY; Bush Cemetery, Hardin County KY

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Transcribed by Gaye Hill, rjhistory@yahoo.com
Date: Oct 2004
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The Bush Cemetery is located off Ring Road in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, KY.  
You will be able to access Ring Road from the I-65 at Highway 62-E, to Ring Road.  
Look for Alex Lane, marked as a dead end, the cemetery is at the end of this road.  
This cemetery has some very old markers in it and the Bush family is remotely connected 
to Abraham Lincoln through Sarah BUSH Johnston, the second wife of Thomas Lincoln, 
the step-mother to young Abraham and his siblings after his mother's death due to 'milk sickness' .
 
Margaret BUSH HAWKINS
Aug 28, 1871 - May 16, 1935
 
Charles H. LENNON
1860 - 1927
 
"At Rest"
Frances B.
Wife of 
C.H. LENNON
1866 - 1937
 
"Mother"
Almada BUSH HUFFMAN
1863 - 1948
 
"Father"
Josheph R. HUFFMAN
1849 - 1920
 
"Through all pain at times she'd smile,
A smile of heavenly hath,
And when the angels called her home,
She smiled farewell to earth."
Mary B.
Daughter of 
J.R. & A.W. HUFFMAN
Nov 7, 1883 - June 14, 1903
footstone "WBH"
 
Ernest P.
Son of J.R. & A.W. HUFFMAN
1891 - 1911
 
This is a lot - there are corner markers visible with the letter "A"
doublestone
ASH
Alex T.                               Arvilla BUSH
                                         His Wife
Nov 19, 1866                      Dec 2, 1866
June 26, 1939                     Apr 11, 1943
 
CR ASH
Son of AT & A ASH
Mar 26, 1891
June 22, 1891
"A little time on earth he spent,
Till God for him His Angel sent"
C. Adams (possible the manufacturer or carver?)
footstone "CRA"
 
Elizabeth
Daughter of AT & A ASH
Aug 25, 1895
Mar 1, 1904
"She was the sunshine of our home"
footstone "EA"
 
What I thought was only a fieldstone became:
Infant
Son of AT & A ASH
Apr 5, 1905 - Apr 17, 1905
"A little bud of love to bloom with God above"
footstone "IA"
 
Ruby 
Daughter of CR & RE BUSH
Oct 11, 1900 - Mar 7, 1907
footstone "RB"
 
BUSH
Charles R. BUSH
Aug 9, 1860 - May 4, 1905
"He was the sunshine of our home"
footstone "CRB"
 
Nellie
Daughter of CR & RE BUSH
Oct 27, 1897 - July 16, 1898
"A little bud from earth to far,
Has gone to heaven to blossom there."
footstone "NB"
 
A tall stone with a 'Book of Life' and inscription
at the top of the stone; it is mostly unreadable
due to weathering.
Matilda
Wife of Wm BUSH
Mar 2, 1813 -  Oct 2, 1875
"Brown, N. Albany" is the tombstone company(New Albany, IN)
"She was a kind and affectionate wife.
Her smiles cast their rays of cheerfulness 
throughout our household.  She is gone to 
her reward to live with God forever."
footstone (broken) "MB"
 
broken stone
William BUSH
---- 18, 1806 -  Aug 4, 1877
The "A" lot markers end here.
 
Infant Daughter of
JR & AE TERRILL
Jan 22, 1923
 
"Mother"
Ellen D.
Wife of WP GIBBS
1857 - 1919
"At Rest"
 
Appears to be a hand made cement with
embedded pebbles spelling
DEANO
 
Delia
Daughter of M & SE ASH
Dec 24, 1862 - Jan 31, 1865
Age 2 yrs, 1 mo,  7d's
 
doublestone
"Father"                          "Mother"
Malachi ASH                   Sarah E. ASH
Aug 29, 1831                   Aug 22, 1840
Mar 12, 1897                   Nov 17, 1896
 
Annie Laura ASH
Wife of GH ASH
Sept 5, 1867 -  May 3, 1891
 
ASH
GH ASH
1854 - 1916
"At Rest"
 
Elizabeth D. ASH
1860 - 1946
 
Harry 
Son of GH & Lizzie ASH
1899 - 1916
"At Rest"
 
Brooks Y
Son of  AC & SJ BUSH
Dec 16, 1897 - Aug 14 1898
footstone "BYB"
 
Bettie Lee
Daughter of CC & Dorcas J BUSH
Nov 10, 1877 - Dec 2, 1886
 
Infant Son of
AC & SJ BUSH
B&D May 12, 1884
Infant Dau of
AC & SJ BUSH
B&D May 1, 1886
 
broken stone - laid down, partially buried
Robt. Owen
Son of Columbus C & Dorcas J. BUSH
B Sept 25, 1858
D Jan 21, 1862
Aged 3 y's, (rest is not readable)
 
doublestone
BUSH
CC BUSH
Feb 24, 1833 - Dec 4, 1905
Dorcas J.
His Wife
Apr 13, 1841 - July 17, 1929
"Mother"           "Father"
 
Samuel BUSH
May 19, 1809 - May 30, 1870
Aged 61 y's, 11 d's
 
broken stone
Deborah
Wife of Saml BUSH
Dec 31, 1808 - Dec 18, 1855
(calculation of age at break)
o mth, 18 d's
 
Ben I. BUSH
Mar 18, 1881 - Dec 27, 1925
 
doublestone
BUSH
John T. BUSH                   Mary S.
                                        His Wife
Jan 3, 1845                       Sept 23, 1856
Aug 3, 1921                      Jan 17, 1932
"At Rest"
 
George W. BUSH
Oct 8, 1836 - Jan 16, 1869
aged 32 y's, 3 m's, 8 d'ys
 
doublestone
John R. ASH
1832 - 1914
Elizabeth
His Wife
1839 - 1880
 
Wm. H. ASH
Aug 29, 1869 - Aug 6, 1916
 
small column
Bessie Lee
Dau of
Lee & E ASH
Nov 28, 1892 - Sept 17, 1898
 
doublestone
HUFFMAN
Robt W.                       Clara S.
Feb 14, 1889                Mar 2, 1892
Aug 26, 1950                May 10, 1929
 
doublestone
BUSH
Shelby Thomas             Yvonne Barnes
May 24, 1896                July 2, 1909
Jan 14, 1951                
"Father"                        "Mother"
 
Claudia E.
Dau of 
TW & Margaret BUSH
1883 - 1937
"At Rest"
 
Edward BUSH
Mar 6, 1891 - Dec 9, 1918
"At Rest"
 
Thomas W. BUSH
Feb 26, 1854 - May 9, 1923
"At Rest"
 
Maggie CLARK
Wife of TW BUSH
June 18, 1860 - Aug 4, 1905