Brief Life History of Harriet Rachel
When Harriet Rachel Bush was born in 1882, in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Lafayette Bush, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Traylor, was 22. She married Walter J. Stonehouse on 2 October 1898. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Forest Home Township, Antrim, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Mancelona, Mancelona Township, Antrim, Michigan, United States in 1930. She died in 1948, at the age of 66.
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Sources (12)
- Rachel Stonehouse in household of Walter Stonehouse, Head, "United States Census, 1920"
- Hattie Bush, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Hattie Stonehouse in entry for Lafe Bush, "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch .
Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš, Búš (see Bus ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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