When Mary Bush was born on 15 April 1812, in North Carolina, United States, her father, William Bush, was 27 and her mother, Nancy, was 26. She married Lewis Dorris on 22 September 1828, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Monroe, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died in 1852, in Harrisburg, Saline, Illinois, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Harrisburg, Saline, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1816: Monroe, Illinois Territory, United States 1818: Monroe, Illinois, United States
Illinois is the 21st state.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
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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