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RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information provided to T.Mason on 3 Oct 2003 by Bradley Canon <pol140@uky.edu>.
His parents farmed acreage to the east of Hickman Rd. (today Nicholasville Rd.) about three miles south of Lexington, near where a K-Mart stands today. Presumably Samuel and his siblings worked farm chores and grew up there. I know little about Samuel’s activities as a young man. The 1838 Lexington City Directory indicates that he was a gardener and had his shop on Georgetown Rd. near Second St., a bit north of downtown Lexington. Apparently he lived at the Old Stone House by Bosworth on the Frankfort Rd. Several of his siblings were members of the Providence Christian Church on Hickman Rd. just across the Jessamine County line; possibly he was also. (Ref: MacCabe’s 1838 Lexington City Directory (Lexington: J.C. Noble Printing Co., 1838) (LexLib 8-97)
In 1843, the Samuel Wymore family left Lexington and moved to Clay County, Missouri, just across the Missouri river from Independence. His younger brother William H. Wymore had gone there in 1838 and younger brother Martin also moved there. The family became reasonably prominent there. The 1850 census puts Samuel in Liberty Township. No occupation is given, but a later history of the county reports that he was engaged in "pork packing and butchering in connection with stock raising and farming" during the 1840s and 1850s.9 The 1860 census lists him as a livery keeper along with his son George W. in Liberty, the county seat.10 During the Mexican War, he pledged money and horses for the local militia unit that crossed the plains and captured New Mexico for the U.S.11 He may well have been a member of the Christian Church as Eliza and some of his children and his brother William H. were in that denomination.
He was a building contractor and manufacturer of building materials, a member of the city school board and an elder in the church. They lived at 100 N. Upper St. at her death. Information on William Bush is from "The Book of Downing," a mimeographed compilation of data and some narrative that Harold N. Downing, a Lexington banker, wrote in the 1960s. , p. 7 and p. A. William Henry Perrin, History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), p. 581, gives similar information.
She was active in the Second Presbyterian Church and its charities. Her death and address is reported in Lexington Herald, July 31, 1899, p. 8. Six children alive at her death:
Lizzie H. Bush
Frederick Bush
William B. Bush
Edward B. Bush
Henry S. Bush
G. Louis Bush
References: Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records by MacAdams 1929.
Downing Bible Records (William's Bible).
Francis and Rebecca are mentioned in the will of William Dunlap.
Commanded a regiment at the Battle of the Thames in the War of 1812 and was a member of the Kentucky legislature from Fayette County.
