Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rush, Elisha June 28, 1903
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday July 3, 1903

Another Pioneer Gone

Died on Monday evening at about four o'clock June 28th, 1903 at him residence 
three miles northwest of Lake Odessa. Elisha Rush, another of the Old settlers 
fo Odessa township.

Mr.Rush was born near Rochester, New York, on March 31, 1827; when he was but 
four years of age his parents moved to Michigan, settling on a farm near Salem, 
Washtenaw county. Here he lived and grew to young manhood, and on April 2, 1855 
took to himself a partner for life, in the person of Miss Elizabeth Root.

They 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 world's goods when the 23rd of 
October, of that year they began their journey with ox team and their little 
gathering of household goods, arriving in Odessa they pre entered the farm they 
have since called their home, and Mr. Rush set to work to build a shelter for 
themselves. On the first January they moved into their new house. A little log 
shack without doors or windows, but it sufficed for a house during the long 
wintry days and until something better could be provided. Mr.Rush and his strong   
young wife were tireless workers and they were cozily 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 Osborne, dying April 12, 1892. There remains to mourn the 
loss of a devoted husband and father, a widow who has shared with the departed 
one, the hardships, the trials and at last the life of ease and comfort for 
nearly fifty years: the four sons, Francis; a well-to-do farmer who is known all 
over the county and especially well in Odessa; Charlie, Leslie and Henry Rush, 
and highly respected citizens of Odessa, Ida, a wife of Ora Cooley and Edna wife 
of Wesley Lepard of Charlotte.

Mr.Rush was in good circumstances, having a nicely improved farm of 80 acres in 
one of the best sections in Odessa.

Deceased was the victim of paralysis, it first appearing about twelve years ago 
and the last stroke coming about two weeks before the end. from  which he never 
recovered.He has been an earnest Christian worker since 31 years of age, first 
identifying himself with the Methodist church, and then later with the 
u.B.church, as a church of that denomination was in sight of home and from there 
the funeral was held on Tuesday forenoon at ten o'clock, Rev Lane, the pastor 
performing the last sad rites. The remains were interred in the Lakeside 
cemetery.

In Mr. Rush, Odessa loses another of its staunch old pioneers that have done so 
much to make our country what it is.

Mrs.Rush has been in poor health, she being subject to attacks of the heart 
disease, but otherwise she seems able to add many years to her already long and 
useful life,

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#2-302

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