THRUSH, Joseph L.

1796 - 1877  (81 years)

• Name	THRUSH, Joseph L.
  Born	30 Mar 1796	Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Apr 1877	Wabash County, Indiana
  Person ID	I3307	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	THRUSH, Leonard,   b. 1760, Newton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 7 Dec 1842, Newton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	STINE, Catherine,   b. 1764,   d. 13 Jul 1844, Newton Township, Cumberland County Pennsylvania  (Age 80 years)
  Married	Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F1237	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HOCH, Susannah,   b. 5 Sep 1803, Pennsylvania ,   d. 6 Sep 1876, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 73 years)
  Married	28 Dec 1823	Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
  Children	1. THRUSH, Isamiah,   b. 24 Jan 1825, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 19 Jan 1899, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 73 years)   2. THRUSH, Moses,   b. 22 Oct 1827, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 10 Feb 1904, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 76 years)   3. THRUSH, Rachel Ann,   b. 1 Jan 1830, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 20 Sep 1902, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 72 years)   4. THRUSH, Henry,   b. 1832, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1837, Richland Ohio  (Age 5 years)   5. THRUSH, Katherine Elizabeth,   b. 15 Mar 1836, Shippensburg, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 27 Mar 1922, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska  (Age 86 years)   6. THRUSH, Levi,   b. 23 Oct 1838, Richland, Ohio ,   d. Oct 1869, Nebraska  (Age 30 years)   7. THRUSH, Mary Jane,   b. 20 Sep 1840, Richland, Ohio ,   d. 21 Aug 1921, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 80 years)   8. THRUSH, Joseph Washington,   b. 21 Apr 1843, Wabash County, Indiana ,   d. 31 May 1912, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 69 years)   9. THRUSH, Susannah,   b. Jan 1848, Wabash County, Indiana ,   d. Jan 1853, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age ~ 5 years)   10. THRUSH, Leonard,   b. 6 Jul 1851, Wabash County, Indiana ,   d. 15 Dec 1853, Wabash County, Indiana  (Age 2 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F1236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Joseph was a cooper by trade and a farmer. In the spring of 1836 he moved his family from Pennsylvania to Seneca Co. Ohio, near Attica in a three-horse Conestoga wagon. - In 1837 they moved to a place named Bellville inRichland Co., Ohio, where he purchased a small tract of land. - In 1840 he lost his land after "the panic of 1837" and rented about 80 acres and lived on it for 18 months. - In the fall of 1841 Joseph moved his family to Indiana in a Yankee covered wagon. From October of 1841 to July 1842 they lived in a cabin in northern Grant Co., Indiana. In July 1848 Joseph traded his new wagon, one horse and harness to a Mr. McVicker for a 28 acre tract of land near Lincolnville, Wabash Co., Indiana. Some years later Rachel Ann Thrush, Joseph's daughter gave this account of their arrival to this farm. "There was a little log cabin on this place that we could occupy when we first came, that was some, but not much better than staying out in the open air. It would keep the rain off somewhat, and we had all the woods on the farm to get fuel from to keep a flaming fire to warm us by in the winter". - Though Joseph and Susannah were of the Lutheran faith in Pennsylvania they became founding members of the Asbury Chapel Methodist Church in Indiana. - Joseph is buried in Center Grove Cemetery in Wabash Co., Indiana. - The 1850 census for Largo, Township,Wabash Co., Indiana states Joseph, born in Pennsylvania, was a farmer with land valued at $1000.00. His wife Susanna and several of his younger children were with him at the time the census was taken, including our ancestor Catherine, age 16, who was attending school. - Joseph L. Thrush came from Richland County, Ohio. His family were himself and wife and five children, one of them being a half-grown lass, the future wife of Mr. Joseph McClintock. They made the trip in a Yankee covered wagon, drawn by three horses, having traveled the longer and more tedious journey from Pennsylvania to Richland County, Ohio, years before, when the country was far more wild and unsettled, in a three-horse Pennsylvania Conestoga wagon. Mr. Thrush settled on the Marion-Lagro Road, called the Boundary Road, because it was laid on the eastern boundary of the Big Miami Indian Reservation, which the whites, with their accustomed greediness and disregard of the rights of the weaker party, located wholly upon the Indian land. Some of them have received a sort of reward for the greediness of their predecessors in the fact that the lands on the west side of the boundary are less in extent by half the width of the road. Mr. Thrush died in 1877, at the age of eighty-one, having been born in 1796.