Henson and Margaret (Stout) Rush's Family

Which of Henson and Margaret (Stout) Rush's children do you descend from? 

All the links below are 👉 FREE 👈 to read. 

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Henson Rush, 1794- c.1848

He married Margaret Stout in Mercer County, Kentucky on 14 Oct 1825. 

MYSTERY: when and where did Henson die and where was he buried?

1. The Rush Report (p. 64) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/mode/2up?q=Henson

2. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html

3. Find-a-grave= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51686877/henson_h_rush

4. Geni = https://www.geni.com/people/Henson-Rush/6000000018963654438

5. Genealogy (Treva Poe) = https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/o/e/Treva-L-Poe/BOOK-0001/0034-0006.html

6. KyKinfolk (1840 Census, p.23, Line 28) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/Census/1840census/1840Adairp6.htm

7. Miller County MO Museum (Rush-Loveall Family at bottom of page) = https://www.millercountymuseum.org/people/bio_r.html

8. Rootsweb (p. 151, Line 5) = https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gruber/genealogy/kentucky/Mercer_County_Kentucky_Marriages_1800-1870.pdf

9. US Genweb (1840 Census, p. 23, Line 28) = http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/adair/census/1840adar.txt

10.  Wiki Tree = https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rush-2211

Their children: 

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James M. Rush, 1826-1892
First Son of Henson & Margaret (Stout) Rush.

1. The Rush Report (8th Generation, p. 84) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/page/n91/mode/2up?q=Blake
2. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-rush-chapel-cemetery-came-to-be.html
3. Find-a-grave = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40277126/james_m-rush
4. Genealogy (Treva Poe) = https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/o/e/Treva-L-Poe/BOOK-0001/0034-0006.html
5. Geni = https://www.geni.com/people/James-Rush/6000000001623054188
6. KY Kinfolk (Adair County, KY “lost” marriage records, note transcription of her surname) = https://www.angelfire.com/ky2/Libbysgenealogy/pg4.html
7. Look to the Past. (Miller County, MO Marriages) = http://www.looktothepast.com/miller/marriage.html
8. Miller County, MO Historical Museum (Rush-Loveall biography at bottom of page ) = https://www.millercountymuseum.org/people/bio_r.html 
9. Miller County, MO Museum Marriages (Q-R Groom) = https://www.millercountymuseum.org/marriages/miller_groom_qr.html
10. Missouri Digital Heritage (Civil War; click on “view record”) = https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/archives/archivesdb/soldiers/Detail.aspx?id=S270730&conflict=Civil%20Wa
11. MO Genweb = https://www.mogenweb.org/millercem/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.htm
12. National Parks Soldier and Sailor Database (Enlisted 11 Jun 1863; Union; Missouri; Calvary) = https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=5028C3CB-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
13. Roots web (cemetery records) = https://sites.rootsweb.com/~momiller/interred%20-%20q%20thru%20u.html
14. US Genealogy Research (Rush Marriages, Miller County, MO, p. 240-41) = https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/Missouri/Miller/marriages_Miller%20County%20Missouri%20Marriages%201800-1928%20at%20Miller%20Historical%20Museum.pdf
15. US Genealogy Research (Vol. 1, p. 49, no. 183) = https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/Missouri/Miller/marriages_index_vol1.pdf
16. Wiki Tree = https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rush-2627

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Ephraim Henson Rush, 1828-1895

Henson & Margaret (Stout) Rush’s Second born

1. The Rush Report (p. 85-86) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/page/n93/mode/2up?q=Ephraim+Henson
2. Findagrave = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14087626/ephraim_henson-rush
3. Genealogy (Treva Poe) = https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/o/e/Treva-L-Poe/BOOK-0001/0034-0006.html
4. Geni = https://www.geni.com/people/Ephriam-Rush/6000000004058825320
5. KY Kinfolk (Adair Co. KY Marriages, Romine to Rutledge) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/wed46.htm#Romine%20-%20Rutledge
6. KY Kinfolk (1850 Adair County, Ky Census, no. 751) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/Census/1850/1850census2.htm
7. MoGenweb = https://www.mogenweb.org/millercem/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.htm
8. Roots web = https://sites.rootsweb.com/~momiller/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.html
9. Roots web (Loveall pages) = https://sites.rootsweb.com/~jloops/loveall/aqwg10.htm
10. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html
11. Wiki Tree = https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rush-2210

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John William Rush, 1831-1904. 

3rd son of Margaret & Henson Rush’s. 

1. The Rush Report (pp. 86-87) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/mode/2up
2. Find-a-grave = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14087691/john_william-rush
3. KyKinfolk (Adair Co., KY, 1850 Census, #476) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/Census/1850/1850census2.htm
4. Miller County, MO Marriages (“Q-R” Groom) = https://www.millercountymuseum.org/marriages/miller_groom_qr.html
5. Missouri Digital Heritage (Civil War Soldiers Database, click on “view record” at bottom of menu to see his real US Gov record) = https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/archives/archivesdb/soldiers/Detail.aspx?id=S270741&conflict=Civil%20War
6. MO Genweb = https://www.mogenweb.org/millercem/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.htm
7. Roots web = https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~millercountycemetery/genealogy/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.html
8. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html
9. Soldiers Database (Civil War) = https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=5428C3CB-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
10. US Genealogy Research (Miller County, MO marriages, p. 240-41) = https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/Missouri/Miller/marriages_Miller%20County%20Missouri%20Marriages%201800-1928%20at%20Miller%20Historical%20Museum.pdf
11. US Genealogy Research (Miller County Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 36, no. 78) = https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/Missouri/Miller/marriages_index_vol2.pdf

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Joshua Rush, 1832-? 

Joshua Rush is Margaret (Stout) and Henson’s 4th son. 

Here’s another mystery! Did Joshua die in Adair County, KY before his mom, brothers and sister moved to Missouri in the late 1850’s? Or did he stay in Kentucky or move somewhere beyond Missouri and his family lose touch with him? The 1850’s through to the 1870’s were turbulent times in US history. We just don’t know. We found him in the 1850 census with his mother and brother, but then after that he dropped off the map. 

1. The Rush Report (p. 64) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/mode/2up
2. KyKinfolk (1850 Adair County, KY Census, # 750) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/Census/1850/1850census2.htm
3. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html

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Amanda Jane (Rush) Loveall (1835-after. 1880 census) 

Margaret and Henson Rush’s only known daughter. 

1. Rush Report (p. 88) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/mode/2up
2. Find-a-grave = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46944719/amanda_jane-loveall
3. Angel fire (Marriage Records for Adair County, KY, 1840-1870) = https://www.angelfire.com/ky2/Libbysgenealogy/pgk-l.html
4. Hathi trust (Record of Marriages and Wills of Adair County. Ky, p. 18) =https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112039591596&seq=7
5. KY Kinfolk (1850 Marriage Records)= https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/wed45.htm
6. Miller County Museum (see Lucy Emily Loveall’s biography) = https://www.millercountymuseum.org/bios/bio_l.html
7. MO Genweb = https://www.mogenweb.org/millercem/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.htm
8. Roots web = https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~millercountycemetery/genealogy/jim%20henry%20-%20rush%20chapel%20cemetery.html
9. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html

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George Rush (1836-? )

5th Son of Henson & Margaret (Stout) Rush. 

Never married. 

1. The Rush Report (p.64) = https://archive.org/details/theRushReport/mode/2up
2. Find-a-grave = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204219089/george_orville-rush
3. KyKinfolk (1850 Adair County, KY US Census, no. 750) = https://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/Census/1850/1850census2.htm
4. Rush Family News = https://rush-family-news.blogspot.com/2016/08/rush-stout-wyckoff-family-tree.html

Citation: "Henson and Margaret (Stout) Rush's Family." Researched and Compiled by David W. & Dolores J. Rush. 19 April 2025. Rush Family News, USA. 

Jabez Ham

 Elder Jabez Ham (1796-1842) = Farmer. Primitive Baptist minister. Born on August 3 to Rhoda and Stephen Ham, Sr. of Madison Co, KY.

Jabez married Hannah S. Todd (b.1798), daughter of Hannah and Peter Todd [1756, PA.- c.1841, Ky.) a former Revolutionary War Soldier, on January 13, 1814. They emigrated to Missouri in 1817 and altogether had 14 children. A dark chapter came into their lives when Indians massacred all passengers, including two of their boys, on a wagon train going west but one, Joel Campbell Ham (1818-1887). He escaped by crawling into a haystack and the Indians overlooked him. He returned to Missouri.

(Note: According to a cousin, she had never heard of the above Indian massacre story, but I obtained the story from the genealogy compiled by Rev. Ervin C. Tipton, whom my grandmother corresponded with during her own family research. )

Elder Jabez Ham organized a church on Loutre Creek in Montgomery County, Missouri called New Providence in 1826. In a letter, written by a Callaway County woman to her sister in Kentucky about a wedding she attended officiated by him, she described him thus: "He had on a long buckskin overcoat that looked so funny! Mr. Ham was a spelling and reading the ceremony from the book." He was said to be quite a character. Another story involves a State senator, one Mr. Harper who left Montgomery County to get a load of corn in Callaway County. Harper wore his usual home-spun clothes and on his way back home, he went by a house where Jabe was preaching. Harper stopped by to hear it and during the services, Jabe asked the congregation to kneel in prayer, which all did except Harper, who leaned his head upon his hand. Then Jabe prayed that the Lord would bless "that Virginia man, who had on store clothes, and was afraid or too proud to get down on his knees."

He passed away in Callaway County, Missouri on December 12, 1842 and is buried in the New Providence church cemetery. His Findagrave #28718049 memorial. 

* Historical Note: According to the Primitive Baptist Church Library in Carthage, IL (link below), there were five bodies of Primitive Baptist churches in Montgomery County - Elkhorn, Little Bethel, Loutre, Macedonia and New Providence.   

More to Read:

1. 1830 US Federal Census, Montgomery County, MO. 

2. The Ham Family Kith and Kin. By Rev. Ervin Charles Tipton. San Rafael, CA. 1977.

3. Madison County, Kentucky Marriage Records, Vol. 1, p. 113.

4. "History of Elk Fork Township: Joel C. Ham." The History of Pettis County, Missouri. A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri: With Numerous Sketches …By William Smith Byron and Rose, p. 972

5. Revolutionary War Records for Peter Todd, #S31430, Rowan County, NC under Capt. Robert Moore
6. The Ghost Towns of Central Missouri: Callaway & Osage Counties. by Kelly Warman-Stallings. Ketch's Printing, Jefferson City, MO, 1998. Vol.2.

7. J.K. Martin's Ham Page

8. Ham Country

9. YouTube video (sorry, the quality of the video is not that great)
10. Primitive Baptist Church Library in Carthage, IL
11. Access Genealogy
12. Charles Harper, 2nd District (1842) Missouri State Senators

Places to Visit:

According to the above cousin, there is a family reunion for the Ham descendants, but I have never been. 

Citation: "Jabez Ham." Written by Dolores J. Rush. 6 November 2024. Rush Family News, USA. 

Rev. Alexander M. Sullens

Rev. Alexander M. Sullens (1830-1905)  = Christian (Campbellite; Disciples of Christ) Minister. Union Soldier in Civil War.

Alexander, born in Mill Springs, Wayne county, Kentucky on Oct 15, the third of thirteen, to John (1804-1883) and Malinda (Thompson) Sullens (1805-1867), emigrated from Kentucky to Miller county, Missouri where his brother was born the following year. Alexander's grandparents were Peter & Mary (Carson) Sullens, Sr. Alexander's first cousin, Judge John H. Sullens of Adrian, Bates County, MO.,  born in Kentucky the year before he was, was elected to both circuit court and as a Missouri state legislator. As a victim of the Burnt District, John, along with other representatives, asked the editor of the St. Louis Republican paper to publish George Caleb Bingham's letter concerning General Thomas Ewing's Order No. 11.

Alexander married Martha (1831-1914), daughter of Abraham and Nancy Ritter on May 19, 1849 in Cole County, MO and to this union six children were born -- William Jasper  (1850-1829); John Thomas (1852-1935); Mary E. (b.1857); George Washington (1859-1896); Ezra L. (1861-1930); and Lewis Pinkney "Pink" Sullens (1867-1945). Their son, William, played a fiddle and it is said that he could play all night and not play the same song twice. William's son, Loyd Carl would accompany his father on his banjo.

Alexander pastored the Spring Garden Christian Church, the mother church of all the Disciples of Christ churches in Miller County. The church was organized in 1840 and two church houses were built in the northwest corner of the present day cemetery in 1845 and 1870. When his granddaughter, Cora Lee (1875-1955), daughter of William Jasper and Nannie C. (Scrivner) (1857-1901) Sullens, married William Thornton Rush (1874-1954), son of James M. (1826-1892) & Theresa Jane (Loveall) Rush (1835-1909), on March 30, 1902,  he officiated at their wedding ceremony.

 More to Read:

1.) Bingham: Fighting Artist. By Lew Larkin. School of the Ozarks Press, Point Lookout, MO. 1971. P. 293.

2.) The History of Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri. St. Joseph, Mo. National Historical Company, 1883. p. 1299-1300. Repository: Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO, www.mymcpl.org

3.) Miller County, MO. Marriages, Bk. E. P. 137 By A. M. Sullins.

4.) The Rush Report. Compiled by Gaynelle Jenkins Moore with research assistance by David W. Rush. Historical Data Services, Glens Falls, NY; 2003. Internet Archive. 

5.) Peter Sullens and Mary Carson and Two Hundred Years of Descendants. By Maude Sullens Hoffman. Printed by J.W. Brown. 1971.
6.) A Photo of William Jasper & Loyd Sullens playing their instruments.

7.) Miller County, Missouri Communities: Spring Garden

8.) Findagrave Memorial  # 61286760 and Find A Grave Memorial # 60413035

Places to Visit:

1.) Spring Garden Cemetery, AA Hwy & Binkley Road (north of 54 Hwy), Spring Garden, Miller County, MO. 

Alexander Sullen's Civil War Tombstone
Spring Garden, MO. cemetery

Certificate that came with Civil War tombstone
signed by US President

Citation: "Rev. Alexander M. Sullens." Written by Dolores J. Rush. 5 June 2023. Rush Family News, USA. 

Martin White 2015 Presentation and Query

Elder Martin White's Biography (off-site)

Presentation Praise (off-site)

Presentation Praise, Part Two (off-site)

Although I presented the White's family story in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois in May 2015, I'm continuing to dig for more information on Martin, Kiturah, and their children, so I still have a request for my cousins -- I am completing my grandmother's research on my 3rd great-grandparents because I am a promise-keeper and I have found much new information that she was not able to obtain during her own research because 1.) she was collecting as much as she could on all the descendants which was a huge undertaking in the days before the internet and 2.) the information was just not available to her or her assistants, even though she traveled to Kentucky where he was born, to Illinois, Kansas and the Missouri border area where he eventually died. She even corresponded by letter with many cousins, most of whom have passed away by now.

Unfortunately, the records that my grandmother copied or received during her family research were burned. The only thing I had in the beginning of my research on Martin & Kiturah was their story preserved in the red White book that my Grandmother published in 1983.  

I'm seeking two things especially, but as with any story, there are always more things I want to know about my 3rd great-grandparents. The two things I would like to have especially is a photograph of Martin and Kiturah (Kitty, Katie). Grandma was able to obtain photographs of some of their children and grandchildren which was eventually published in her genealogy. There are many photographs out there of Abraham Lincoln, so they lived during the time when photographs were possible, but I'm not sure if they ever had their photograph taken or if anyone ever drew or painted their portraits. 

The other thing I would like to have are samples of Martin's handwriting. Do you have any letters or documents with his signature that's been handed down in your family that is not from the internet, that you would be willing to photocopy or scan to share with me? I need family samples to verify what I have found on the internet. If you have either thing, please leave a comment for me in the comment section below. I moderate all comments before I publish them, so if you have personal information such as an email or a home address in your comment, it will not be published -- it's safe with me. However, if you wish to be counted as a member of the family, it would be best to make two comments -- one for me to keep containing your personal information and one to publish here.

I have been approached by people wanting to sell records to me pertaining to Martin White. As to that, I am NOT interested. So don't even bother trying to scam me. 

You would make my day if you have either requested item or another personal object of Martin's such as his Bible, his hymnal, a ministerial logbook or church minutes from Liberty Mosquito, Elk Fork or Pleasant Gap Primitive Baptist churches, sermons, his pulpit or powder horn or something of Kiturah's like a handwritten recipe, a list of Bible family records, her favorite Bible verse, a hand-crafted object and so forth.  These may be added to my family tree on Ancestry. Thank you in advance!

More to Read:

1. Border Ballads

2. Decoration Day

3. In Memory of Her Veterans

4. Preacher Man 

Click on the label "White" at the bottom of this post for information about other White descendants that I have written about or included in other posts. 

Citation: "Martin White 2015 Presentation and Query." Written by Dolores J. Rush. 6 September 2022.  Rush Family News, USA.