Eugene Gilbert Bush

Brief Life History of Eugene Gilbert

When Eugene Gilbert Bush was born on 12 January 1894, in Hardin, Marshall, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Thomas Bush, was 49 and his mother, Mary Surilda Downey, was 37. He married Annie Nora Bryan on 11 September 1916, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 6, Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 9 July 1960, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Saint James Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Eugene Gilbert Bush
1894–1960
Annie Nora Bryan
1896–1978
Marriage: 11 September 1916
Loyd Thomas Bush
1917–1981
James Eugene Bush
1919–1964
Charles Vernon Bush
1925–1997
Ruby Louise Bush
1927–1994

Sources (16)

  • Eugene G Bush, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Eugene G Bush, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Eugene Gilbert Bush, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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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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