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Robert Bush (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1822? d. 1898-06-17

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Bush and Elizabeth Bush. Married to Eliza Elkin Bush. Father of Louisa Bush, William F. Bush, Joseph Bush, Nancy M. Bush, Charles C. Bush, and Nanna Bush. Farmer in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Clark County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Employed Charles Landon as a day laborer in Clark County in 1860. Farmer in Clark County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 15B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 837.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 332A

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Precinct 5, p. 104A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, July and June 1863, p. 126.

"Death of Robert Bush," The Richmond Climax (KY), June 22, 1898.

Citation

Bush, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280391 (November 12, 2026).

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