Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Lewis H. Rush    
                Born: ca 1820              in Augusta Co, VA  1
                Died: bef Jul 1891          2
             Resided: 1862                 in Barbour Co, (W)VA  1
              Father: John Rush 
              Mother: Mary ___ 
                Wife: Jane Watson     
             Married: Mar-19-1862          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  3
                Born: ca 1828              in Barbour Co, (W)VA  1,4
                Died: Jul-20-1891          in Limestone Hill, Wood Co, WV  5
              Buried:                      in Limestone Cemetery, Rockport, Wood Co, WV  6
             Resided:                      in Roane Co, WV  7
             Resided: 1862                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1850                 in Barbour Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Jacob Watson   (1787 - 1860) 
              Mother: Sarah Pritchard   (1797 -     ) 

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(2) Death record of wife. 
(3) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, Identified as Lewis H. Rush, widowed, 42, b. Augusta Co VA, res. 
Barbour Co, son of John & Mary; and Jane Watson, 37, b. Barbour Co, res. Ritchie Co, dau of Jacob & Sarah.  Married Mar 
19 1862.  (Note:  Minnie Kendall Lowther's "History of Ritchie County," p. 237, refers to Jane, the daughter of Jacob 
Watson & Sarah Pritchard, as Mrs. Jane Rowe.  Basis for discrepancy is unclear.) 
(4) 1850 Census, Barbour County, (W)VA. 
(5) Wood County Death Records, Parkersburg, WV, Identified as Jane Rush, widowed, age 68, died Jul 20 1891 at Limestone 
Hill, W. Va.  Buried at Limestone Hill. DR p. 68. 
(6) Wood County Death Records, Parkersburg, WV. 
(7) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 237. 







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