Charles George Rush

Charles George Rush

• Father: George Rush b. circa 1755, d. 11 February 1831
• Mother: Mary Bushong b. 1758

• Charles George Rush was born on 8 February 1786 in North Carolina.
• He married Elisabeth DeBardelaben, daughter of Arthur Franz Ferdinand DeBardelaben and Christiana (?), on 27 March 1808 in St Matthews, South Carolina, at St Matthews Church.
• Charles George Rush became a widower at the 21 December 1826 death of his wife Elisabeth DeBardelaben.
• He married Sarah Norman, daughter of William Norman and Mary Shepard, circa 1827 in Lincoln County, Georgia.
• Following the deaths of their parents William Chambers and Jane Green Paul LeGrand in the early 1840s, the LeGrand children were taken into various families. Mary Jane, the eldest, spent time with Charles and Sarah Norman Rush and with Theodore and Caroline Mays Brevard. She and Green Mark Wood were married by Judge Brevard, and they named their first child Rush Brevard Wood. Margaret was raised as the only child of Letitia Ann Wood McNair (daughter of Green Wood’s cousin Ashley Wood) and her husband Edward McNair. Cornelia was raised in the household of Charles and Sarah Norman Rush, and Virginia William “Willie” was raised from infancy as the only child of John Henry and Mary Harris Gindrat (whose niece Sarah Anne Harris later married Willis Breazeal Wood). Likely son Milton Paul LeGrand also was taken into the Rush family, but no record has been found of his earlier years; by 1850, at age 17, he was serving as an apprentice in the household of druggist Henry F. Godden in Marion, Alabama.
• Charles George Rush and Sarah Norman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Macon County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Benjamin Andrew Rush, John H. Wesley Rush, Amanda Harris and Cornelia Anne Elizabeth LeGrand.
• Charles George Rush died on 9 December 1857 at age 71 in Alabama.
• His wife Sarah Norman became a widow at his death.
• Upon the grave marker of Capt. Charles George Rush in the Rush family cemetery in Macon County, Alabama, who died on 9 December 1857, is written:
       Here lies C.G. Rush, the orphans friend,
       and we the children of W.C. & J.G. LeGrand
        are numbered with the many for whom he
       cared, he is gone but his memory will ever
       be cherished by the orphans.
• He was interred at the Rush family cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.

• Last Edited: 19 Sep 2014