Leonard Bush

As printed in 1881

LEONARD BUSH.

Leonard Bush was born in Pendleton County, Virginia, December 4, 1778, and came to Ross County, this state, in 1809, locating near what is now known as Convenience Station, on the D. & S. E. Railroad. He was married in Virginia, to Catharine powers, in 1803, and four children were born to them prior to their leaving that state. He remained only two years in Ross County, when in the spring of 1811, he removed to Jasper, locating on land now owned by James Beatty.

Mr. Bush bought one hundred acres of land from his father in Jasper, on which, in March, 1811, he erected a round log cabin, which he occupied without a floor till June of the same year, "With incessant labor, he cleared fifteen acres of land the first spring, which he planted in corn, breaking the ground with the old fashioned wooden would board plow. After this, having built a shop soon after his arrival, he followed his trade of wheelwright for seventeen years in connection with his farming, when his son,

Jacob, on whom the management of the farming until now had largely devolved, marrying, he was compelled to devote his whole attention to his farm, which had then increased to three hundred

As printed in History of Fayette County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and all oth (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.