Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Rush was born on 3 April 1884, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin C Rush, was 61 and her mother, Harriet Thompson, was 41. She married Sidney Marques Yokley on 2 August 1913, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 April 1979, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Yokley Cemetery, Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States.
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- Yokley, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harriet Rush, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Harriet Rush Yokley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rishe, rush(e), rosh(e) ‘rush’ (Old English risc), either a topographic name for someone who lived in a rushy place, or a nickname probably denoting someone who wove mats, baskets, and other articles out of rushes.
English: nickname from Middle English rush ‘beehive’ (probably referring to skeps woven from rushes), perhaps denoting a bee-keeper.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis ‘descendant of Ros’, a personal name perhaps derived from ros ‘wood’. In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra due to confusion with the Irish word luachair ‘rushes’ (see Loughrey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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