Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rush, Elizabeth "Libbie" A.(Root) June 29, 1905
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday June 30, 1905

A MOTHER IS NO MORE

Just two years and a day from the time Mr.Elisha Rush passed away,Mrs. Rush 
followed the husband to the spirit world.Mrs.Elizabeth Rush, died on Thursday  
night June 29th, 1905 at about 12:20 o'clock, after a illness beginning about 
three months and one week ago, of cancer of the stomach.

The funeral will be held on Sunday from the U.B. church in West Odessa, to be in 
charge of Rev.Lash of Woodbury, and the remains fo the deceased will be laid at 
rest in Lakeside, beside those of her husband, who died on June 28th, 1903.

To secure the most accurate history of Mr.Rush we can best turn to the files of 
the Wave of July 3, 1903, and there take from the obituary of Mr.Rush as 
follows, but taking up the life of Mrs.Rush before the time she married Mr.Rush 
will say that she was born in Yates, New  York, 73 years ago. When but four 
weeks old her parents moved to Salem, Washtenaw county, and there she grew to 
young womanhood, and was married to Elisha Rush, on April 12th, 1855.

"The young couple lived under the parental roof until in October, then concluded 
to wade deeper into the more unsettled state, where they had relatives and had 
been told that their chances were better to accumulate this worlds goods, so on 
the 23re of October, of that year they began their journey with ox team and 
their little gathering of household goods. Arriving in Odessa they procured the 
farm they have since called their home, and Mr.Rush set to work to build a 
shelter for themselves. On the first of January they moved into their new house, 
a little log shack without doors or windows, bu it sufficed for a house during 
the long cold wintry days and until something better could be provided.Mr.Rush 
and is strong young wife were tireless workers and they were soon settled in a 
home of their own. So life in the Rush family continued, they gradually getting 
around them the comforts of life, but not without the hard knocks and hardships 
of our pioneers.

To this happy union has been born seven children, six of whom are living; a 
daughter,Mrs.Hannah Osbourn, dying April 13, 1892. There remains four sons, 
Francis, a well-to-do farmer who is known all over the country and especially 
well in Odessa; Charlie, Leslie and Henry Rush, also highly respected citizens 
of Odessa. Ida, wife of Ora Cooley of West Odessa, and Edna, wife of Wesley 
Lepard, of Charlotte.

Since the death of Mr.Rush, Mrs.Rush has been living with her children, and at 
the time of her death was living at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ora Cooley.

Besides the family of devoted children she leaves one brother Simeon Root, now 
living in Beaverton.

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#2-302

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