When Nancy Rush was born on 20 March 1827, in Kentucky, United States, her father, James H Rush Jr, was 35 and her mother, Jemima E Simpson, was 27. She married William H Gettings about 1848, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 5 East Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 28 January 1911, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hestand, Monroe, Kentucky, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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