Doctor Benjamin Rush Genealogy

Doctor B Rush

Born:  Lawrence Co IN  6/28/1861

Parents: Noah Rush & Esther C Hendricks / Hendrix

Spouse: Eliza A Vest, d 1938

Married 2/6/1884 in Bedford In, moved to Kansas in 1886 for health reasons; drier weather

Children: Mrs. Ida (Leon) Handley of Kansas City, Albert Rush, Ray Rush, Kent B Rush, Dalice Rush and Louis A Rush, all of Chanute.

Lived in Chanute, KS on a farm

Died: 4/28/1942 in Chanute KS, age 80
Buried: Elmwood KS

1930 Census

BEDFORD DAILY TIMES

BEDFORD, INDIANA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934

DEATH COMES TO OLIVER P. RUSH

Native of Lawrence County Succumbed Today At Bloomfield- Rites There Monday.

Kent Rush 610 S Street was advised today of the death early this morning at his home in Bloomfield, of his father, Oliver P. Rush, 70 years old, after a short illness with complications.

Tentative funeral arrangements call for services at Bloomfield Monday with burial at Springville but the place and hour has not been decided. Oliver P. Rush was a native of Lawrence county and was born in Perry township to Mr. and Mrs. Noah Rush in 1864. He was united in marriage in young manhood to Miss Laura Hatfield of Greene county. She passed away in 1926.

Mr. Rush was engaged in farming in Perry township until 1916, when he moved to Bloomfield and he had since made his home there. Besides the son here he is survived by another son, Wayne of Bloomfield; two sisters, Mrs. Isabel Rainbolt, Lawrence County, and Mrs. Mary Rector, Atlanta, Nebraska; a brother D. B. Rush, Chanute, Kansas, and eight grandchildren. A brother John C. Rush of Perry township died last March.