Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

SAMUEL H. RUSH, Butler County, was born March 20, 1839, in Sumner County, 
Tenn.; in 1840, he removed with his parents to Simpson County, Ky., where 
he grew to manhood.  In 1869, he located near Berry's Lick, in Butler 
County, where he has since resided.  His father, John Rush, long a 
Baptist minister, was a native of South Carolina, a soldier in the war 
of 1812, who died in Missouri about 1855, very old.  John Rush (subject's 
father) married Susanna, daughter of Frederick and Polly Brown, of Sumner 
County, Tenn. (died in 1870, at the age of fifty-six years).  Their 
offspring are Alfred J., Samuel H., Lucy A., Frederick M., Elizabeth E. 
(McGuire), Martha S. (Walden), John R., Effie P. (Span), and Joseph W.  
May 29, 1862, Samuel H. Rush married Sarah J., daughter of John W. and 
Lucinda (Dixon) Carpenter, of Simpson County (born March 6, 1844).  To 
them have been born Lucinda J. (Tyree), Martha H., John H. (deceased), 
William A., Ira M., Ody W. and Rotha E. (twins), Mary R. Ida P. 
(deceased), and James E.  Mr. Rush has served as magistrate and member 
of the court of claims of Butler County for six years, which position 
he still holds.  He is a farmer, and has 110 acres of good land, in a 
high state of cultivation.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
and of the old regular Baptist Church.

Rush Brown McGuire Walden Span Carpenter Dixon Tyree
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Sumner-TN Simpson-KY SC MO

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