The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
JUDGE WIN. D. BUSH.
APIONEER ATTORNEY OF SALINE PASS
EAWAY SUDDENLY.

mis- Bush, aged rs wears. His unex-
pected demise came as a great shock
to his family and friends. While
Judge Bush has been in feeble health
for some time, he was able to
be up and around and was up in
town Saturday afternoon ; came home
and ate his supper, and after the
meal went to a neighbors for a little
visit. He returned from the neigh.
bors about 6 o'clock, seemingly in
his usual health, only that he com
planned of being tired. He COM
menced to make preparations to re-
tire a little after Z o'clock and when
about ready to lie down while sitting
on the side of the bed, gave a gasp
and fell back, unconscious and ex-
pred in a few moments. The sud-
den and unexpected passing away of
the husband and father, was a great
shock and grief to the family, and
also to large circle offriends in the
city, all of whom realize more fully
than ever that in the midst of life,
we are in death. The deceased, who
was a pioneer lawyer OF Saline and
since he came here in 1895, he and
his family have been inseperably con-
neted with the county and county
seat, and the passing of Judge Bush
removes from our midst one who
has helped without stintin everything
that tended to the advancement of
Marshall and Saline. He was a de-
voted husband and father. and the
home will be desolate and lonely
without his presence.
Judge Bush was born in Clark
county, Mo-, January 10, 1889, and
was the son of Celeb and Elizabeth
Lockwood Bush, The former was u
Baptist minister who came to Mis-
souri, in the early days of Clark
county spent forty years in the min
issery and probably organized more
churches than any other man in
the state. Judge Bush was de-
scended from the same stock rs
Chief Justice Bush of Ireland and his
| grandfather came to America before
the Revolution. locating in eastern
Virginia and fought under the stand
ard of Washington.
Attic age of II, the deceased
commenced to study law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1857, in Clark
county, where he continued to
practice until 1861, serving as county
prosecuting attorney, during the
time. He entered the Confederate
army in 1861, as a private in Gen'l
Martin Green's brigade, and was
mustered not at the close Of the wal
as Capt. of Company D, Col. Priests
regiment. An incident of his war,
record was that just before the close,
Judge Bush was taken to st. Louis,
a prisoner, but soon after being plac-
ed in prison, he met a Federal Colon
el, whom he knew and was employed
by him in an important law suit,
which he won. Through the in
%tuence of his client, he was paroled
to the city limits. At the close of
the war, he came to Saline and
practiced law continuously until
January 1899. he assumed the duties
of Probate Jadge, having been elect
ed the fall before. In this position,
which he held for eight years, he
was, as in every other relation in life
faithful to the trust imposed. He
was an enthusiastic Democratic, and
a great campaigner for his party and
met in joint discussion many oppon-
ents during his long residence here
He had been amember of the Bap-
fist church for the past twenty years
and was also a knight Templar.