Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 756-759 [Christian]

     CHARLES H. BUSH is a prominent lawyer of Hopkinsville and
enjoys a large practice in the town and county.  He was born in
Montgomery county, Tennessee, October 28, 1856.  His grandfather,
Zenas Bush, is supposed to have been of German descent.  His father,
Howard B. Bush, was born in North Carolina and emigrated to
Tennessee in the early part of the nineteenth century.  He was a
farmer and died in the latter state in 1862.  He married Panthea B.
Ellis, a native of Tennessee and reared in Humphreys county.
     Charles H. Bush was the only child and son of his parents, and
he lost his mother when he was four months old and his father when
he was six years of age.  He was reared in the family of an uncle
till he was fifteen years old, and at that age started out on his
own responsibility.  He clerked in a country store and attended
school at what odd times he could find.  He was a student in a West
Virginia college for two years, and then entered the law office of
Henry Bennett, of Paducah, where he read law for one year and was
then licensed to practice.  He remained in Paducah for about a year
after being admitted to the bar, and while there was married to Miss
Jennie Gary, of Christian county.  He soon afterward located in
Hopkinsville, where he has been engaged in constant practice for
twenty-two years.  He has certainly deserved all the success he has
won, for he is a strictly self-made man, having been dependent on
his own efforts for advancement since he was a boy.  He has always
been an active supporter of Democratic principles.  He made the race
for the Democratic nomination for circuit judge, which resulted in
one of the closest contests within the party ever known in western
Kentucky.  He is a director in the Bank of Hopkinsville and is
interested in the Crescent Milling Company, and has been as
successful in his business enterprises as in his legal career.
     Mr. Bush has been a member of the Christian church for twenty-nine
years, and holds the office of deacon.  He lost his first wife
after they had been married about six years, and in 1888 he was
married to Miss Mattie M. Rives, of Montgomery county, Tennessee. 
Of the first marriage there were three children: R. Howard, of
Texas, and Lillian and Lucile [sic], at home.  The children of the
present marriage were Jennie and Florence, and Sarah, deceased.

Bush Ellis Bennett Gary Rives
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Montgomery-TN NC Humphreys-TN McCracken-KY TX
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