Brief Life History of Mida Ethzelda
When Mida Ethzelda Rush was born on 21 December 1888, in Wray, Yuma, Colorado, United States, her father, Otto Irving Rush, was 25 and her mother, Ida Sidora Cunningham, was 20. She married Oscar Albert Schroeder on 31 October 1909, in Denver, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 9 August 1984, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mida Etlvelda Rush Schroeder, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Mida E Rush, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Mida Schroeder, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
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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A WILD RIDE - (The story of Grandma Dora Rush's wild ride to take baby Max to the doctor. Written by Dorothy May Rush Loertscher)
Would this rain never stop? It had been pouring down since early afternoon and here it was nearly 10 P.M. Dora turned from the window where little rivulets coursed down the outside of the pane. She …
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