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, and removed with his parents to Tennessee in childhood, and is now living in Simpson County, aged seventy-two years. He is the son of John Rush 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.

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