Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

CAPT. PETER STEVENS RUSH, one of the prominent farmers and influential 
citizens of Metcalfe County, was born near the mouth of Meshack's Creek, 
Monroe County, Ky., July 4, 1826. At the age of six years he removed 
with his parents to his present residence.  Near the beginning of the 
late war he enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteer 
Infantry, in the capacity of captain.  He was in the battle of Shiloh, 
where he was twice wounded; once in the neck and once in the shoulder, 
and besides was in a large number of minor skirmishes, one of which was 
near his home in Monroe County.  He was engaged in the service nearly 
four years.  His father, James C. Rush, was born in Monroe County, May 
8, 1804.  He was a son of Benjamin and Rachel Rush, born, respectively, 
in 1782 and 1786 in Monroe County Ky., and in Virginia. Benjamin Rush 
was a son of James Rush, of Virginia, who settled at an early day in 
Cumberland County (now Monroe), two miles east of Tompkinsville. He was 
of Welsh descent.  James C. Rush was married three times; first, May 18, 
1825, to Nancy, daughter of Peter and Nancy (Wright) Stevens, of Monroe 
County, Ky. They had one son, our subject.  His second marriage took 
place February 23, 1833, to Elizabeth Whitlow, of Barren County (now 
Metcalfe). They had no children.  His third marriage was in 1874, to 
Mrs. Jane (Mize) Bradley. They had no children.  Capt. Rush has been 
twice married; first, May 2, 1847, to Eliza J., daughter of Samuel M. 
and Milley K. (Kinnaird) Moran. To them were born Harriet A. (Reed), 
Martha E. (Sparks), Ann F. (Perkins) and Edward H. Mrs. Eliza J. Rush 
died January 27, 1867.  His second marriage took place October 17, 1868, 
to Agnes F., also a daughter of Samuel Moran.  To them have been born 
Flora Y., Milley F., Mary I., Rob M. and Charles R. C.  Capt. Rush had 
as good educational advantages as were usual in his day, but were 
confined entirely to subscription schools.  He started in the race of 
life without assistance; first engated in farming with which he combined 
teaching, and in these pursuits, with industry and economy, he has 
become the owner with his wife of 300 acres of well improved and 
productive land.  He was for ten years a constable, and is at present in 
the tenth year of his service as a magistrate and a member of the court 
of claims of Metcalfe County.  He is a moral man; a believer in the 
doctrines of the Christian Church, and in politics is a stanch 
Republican.  He is one of the six Republicans who formed the nucleus of 
the present Republican party in Metcalfe County, and was an elector on 
the first national Republican ticket.

Bradley Kinnaird Mize Moran Perkins Reed Rush Sparks Stevens Whitlow Wright
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Barren Cumberland Monroe Tompkinsville-Monroe VA

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