The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-07
DEATH COMES TO DIR. RUSH End Of a Long and Useful Life. "A MINISTER 50 YEARS Funeral in Prattvllle This
 Morning. Body of Aged Methodist Preacher Who Diea in cevington, Ga, Drought
 to Alabama for
 Burial.

 h. D., who died at o'clock
 yesterday morning at the home
 of his daughter. Mrs. K. F.
 Lester in Covington, Ga. reach,
 ed Montgomery yesterday evening ana
 iay at the residence of his son-in-iaw'
 N. B. Holt, on South Lawrence street;
 throughout the night. The funeIai oa
 Dr Rush will take place in Prattville this morning upon the arrival there oi the train from Montgomery. ,
 Fifty years a minister of the Meth odist Episcopal Church in Alabama and having filled the pulpits of some of the most important churcnes Tn .he State Dr. Rush was one or the most beloved men. He had a wide acduaint- ance and his death will cause sorrow wherever he was known.
 1t was known in Montgomery that pr. Rush was desperately i'll at the home of his daughter In Covington. Ga., hut. news reached here Thursday that his condition showed improvement anu there was a hope that he would De spared for more years Of usetul exam nie if not for Christian ministry. The news of his death yesterday carrie" sorrow to many hearts.
 Funeral Arrangements.
 At 7:30 o'clock this morning the body of pr. Rush will be conveyed to the union railway station from the resi- dence of MT. Holt and at O'CLOCK tne train will leave for Prattvilie where The funeral services are to be held in the Methodist Church. the remains be- ing taken there direct from the rail road depot. Rev. J. M. Mason, ID. D.. n lifelong friend and co-worker of pr. Rush, will preach the funeral sermon and the body will be laid to rest Tn the picturesque cemetery so often visited by pr. Rush during his ministry Tn the olt nF County, It is expected that many Montgom- cry friends of the deceased minister will go to Prattville to attend the Iu- neral although 1t was not known gen erally until last night that Dr. Rush would be buried in Prattvilie this morning.
 pr. Rush was in the T3rd year of his age and A native of Montgomery Coun- ty. having been born at Oak Grove. or Barachias, March 22. 1888. The story of his life Is one that will be an fn- spiration not only to his posterfty put to all men and women. It Is story
 of consecrated work in the cause or
 Christianity; of upright, unswerving devotion to his church and her interest and of tender, charitable consideration for human frailty and sympathy Tor | the unfortunates of this life.
 His father was Charles 0. Rush or Lincolnton, N. C.. where he was born in 17S2.. He was planter all. Of his life and a man of great intellectually, popularity and influence. pr. Rushs mother was Mrs. Walton of Georgia and her father was named Norman, an officer of the Revolutionary army. | They were pioneers of Montgomery County and Dr. Rush was born on the
 plantation of his father not great distance from this city. Services as a Minister. | he fa n Dr. Rush removed to Tuskegee where | he resided until 1s4S when he was sent as a student to Emory College. Ga. where he completed his education in | 1858, He then began to teach school l in Russell County, Ala. but after about six months of school teaching he en- tered the ministry of the Methodist Church. He was at this time about 21 years old. He served almost con- fifty years and would not allow himself 1 put upon the superannuated list of ministers until he had passed the half century mark, laboring in the cause l of his Master. s.:
 pr. Rush was admitted to the Con ference as a minister in the autumn of 1854. In 1857 he was chosen as a
 missionary to work among the negroes | in which work he reaped much suc- cess. His health became impaired in | the fall of 1858 and he was elected to
 A professorship in the Methodist Col iege for girls at Tuskegee where he remained until the outbreak of the war
 between the States.
 True to every correct principle of life
 Dr. Rush saw that his duty lay in the field with the soldiers of his State and he entered the Confederate army as | ca ptain of the old Macon Rifles. He served as captain of this company about | 6fteen months He was captured at | Island No, 10 and was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio. Later he was held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island for | about six months.
 When Dr. Rush was released from | prison he returned to Alabama and re-
 entered the ministry of his church. At
 the close of the war Dr. Rush was Pre- | siding Elder of the Dayton District of
 the Alabama Conference. He served i churches of this State after the war | in the following order: Marion three years: Mobile four years; Prattville two years, Selma district four years, Pratt vile two years, Birmingham four years | as editor of The Christian Advocate. l Street Church) four years. Auburn four years, Prattville four years. the third time he paeched there; Dothan l two years.
 Fifty Years a Preacher. | His last charge was the St. Andrews Methodist Church of Dothan. He all along insisted that he would not be retired from the ministry until he had | rounded out fifty years of service. At | the meeting of the Conference in Selma | last year pr. Rush was placed on the
 superannuated list. Since that time
 he has rested with his sons and | daughters.
 | He was in Montgomery with his son and daughter, Mir. and Mrs. N. B. Holt
 last spring. and in May went from here to Covington. Ga, to be with MT | and Mrs. R. P, Lester. the latter of whom is his youngest daughter. His | health had been failing during the past
 year and nearly all of his large family
 was with him when the end came yes 1 te rday morning.
 pr. Rush on April 25. 1854, married | Miss Octavia Andrew at Oxford. Ga | She was daughter of Rev. James O.
 Andrew. who was at that time a Bishop
 of the Methodist Church. The devotion
 between Dr. and Mrs. Rush was one
 of the beautiful things of their lives. A
 year ago fin Dothan the fine old couple
 celebrated the golden anniversary Of 1 their wedding and from all sections of l the State happy congratulations were
 showered upon them.
 To MT and Mrs. Rush were born ten | sons and daughters. Those who are
 living are: Mrs. Lizzie R. Mitchell oi l Birmingham, who Is a widow; Mrs | Frank Norris of Birmingham. Mrs. Fl.
 len R. sturdivant of Selma, who is a
 widow: Mrs. N. B. Holt of Montgom.
 cry, Mrs. R. P. Leester of covington