Brush - Elizabeth McCormick
Source: The Jamestown Press, Jamestown Indiana, Friday, 31 May 1907
Elizabeth Todd McCormick was born in Shelby Co. Kentucky, 12
March 1815. Moved with her widowed mother to Waveland, Indiana,
in 1827. Joined the M.E. Church and was converted in her
fifteenth year at a camp meeting near Russelville, Indiana. She
was married to John BRUSH 2 August 1827. Moved to Ladoga in 1837,
and to Jamestown in 1869.
In her young days she listened to the eloquent John Strange
preach, and his words lived in her heart all her long life. In
her own home she entertained such grand and good men as Daniel
Demott, Richard Hargrove, Aaron Wood and many others. She was a
woman of strong traits of character and she could never be moved
from what she thought was right.
She was the mother of nine children, three of whom survive
her: John Brush of Lizton, H.C. Brush, of Lebanon Mrs. J.F.
Hendricks at whose home her death occurred. She departed this
life 28 May 1907, age 92 years, 2 months and 16 days. Her husband
died 8 September 1880.
Funeral services were held at the residence Wednesday after
noon conducted by H.C. Ne ___. Interment in the Lowery Cemetery
at the south edge of Jamestown by the side of her husband