Benjamin Andrew Rush
b. 2 June 1830, d. 5 June 1903
- Father: Charles George Rush b. 8 February 1786, d. 9 December 1857
- Mother: Sarah Norman b. 25 June 1794, d. 3 May 1859
- Benjamin Andrew Rush was born on 2 June 1830 in Alabama or 5 June.
- 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.
- He married Martha A. (?) circa 1852.
- Benjamin Andrew Rush and Martha A. (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Auburn, Macon County, Alabama, and also overseer Charles Martin, age 21.. Other members of the household included Mary E. Rush, Thomas Rush and John Rush.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
- He served as a sergeant in Captain DeBardeleben's Company A of Partisan Rangers, 15th Battallion, Alabama Volunteers, CSA. He joined for duty and enrolled 2 June 1862, at age 32 in Montgomery, for the period of the war, with a horse valued at $275.
- Benjamin Andrew Rush became a widower at the 20 September 1866 death of his wife Martha A. (?)
- He married Lucy E. Rivers on 11 November 1867 in Clarke County, Alabama.
- Benjamin Andrew Rush died on 5 June 1903 at age 73.
- He was interred at the Rush family cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.
- Last Edited: 21 Jul 2014
Family 1: Martha A. (?) b. 25 August 1832, d. 20 September 1866
- Charles Stephen Rush b. 16 July 1853, d. 14 September 1854
- Mary E. Rush b. circa 1855
- Thomas Rush b. circa 1857
- John Rush b. circa 1859