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!2. Odd Fellows cemetery recs. gives burial date as 13 Jul 1916.
!3. Records of Methodist Church, Brooklyn, IA
1880 Census for Madison, Poweshiek, Iowa gives Thomas's age as 36 and his place of birth as New York, which is also given as the place of birth for his parents. (However, it is known that his father was born in Canada.) His wife, Sarah A. is shown as age 42, with 6 children between the ages of 2 and 16 living at home. There was also a hired man, E. Brown, age 19, living with the family.
!4. THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS AND RICHARD BRUSH OF HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND,
NY, A Source Book, Stuart C. Brush, pg. 410. FHL fiche # 6098615. Also supplement- FHL# 1321127-2. This book gives his death date as 25 Mar 1916.
"In 1845 Thomas's family moved to Johnstown Center, Rock Co., Wisconsin. In 1851 they were in Iowa, where later his father enlisted in the Civil War and died in battle in VA.
Thomas and Sarah were married in Winneshiek Co., Iowa, which was where their first three children were born and where Ennia died. Later they moved to Brooklyn in Poweshiek County where other children were born. Thomas married Nettie there and remained the rest of his days." Sources given include
Mann, Conklin, "Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, L.I", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, Vol.s, LSVI and LXVII; 1935 - 1936.
Tracy, Sherman W., The Tracy Genealogy, 1938.
Ryan, Mrs. Willis M. (Gwen), Grinnell, Iowa, Personal study.
Biographies of Madison Twp., Poweshiek County:
BRUSH, T.P.—Madison Twp—pg 951-2. Farmer, section 3, P.O. Haven, Tama county. Was born in the State of New York, May 10, 1843. At the age of two years he moved with his parents to Wisconsin, where his father engaged in farming till 1851, when, with his family, he came to Winneshiek county, where out subject, after finishing his education, engaged in farming till 1878, when he located in Tama county for a few months, and in 1879 came to his present place, where he owns 270 acres, thirty of which are timber; there being a good residence site on his farm. Mr. B. was married, in Winneshiek county, April 4, 1863, to Miss Sarah Amanda Wray, of same county, and a native of Chenango county, New York, aged twenty-seven. She had two children by a former marriage: Alice F. (aged twenty-two; now the wife of H. Bures, of Boone, this State) and Nina R. (aged twenty; now the wife of George Stone, of Madison township). By this last union there are six children living: Aethra A. (aged sixteen), Charles E. (aged thirteen), Samuel E. (aged eleven), Amza G. (aged nine), Sarah Amanda (aged seven) and Ralph E. (aged three); also Ennina (deceased; aged twenty-one days).
Transcribed by:Lisa Johnson <mailto:Li53John@worldnet.att.net> from Standard Atlas of Poweshiek County; Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Publishers & Engravers Chicago 1896 and reprinted in 1982 by the Poweshiek County Historical & Genealogical Society, Montezuma, Iowa 50171
Note: !1. Obituary in Jennie Brush's scrapbook gives death date as 11 July and burial date as 13 Ju
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