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History of Auglaize Co., Ohio -
Vol. II of 2 Volumes
Edited by William J. McMurray
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1923
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L.
J. THRUSH, better known to his many friends in this
county as "Dode" Thrush, president of the board of education for
Clay township and one of the best known farmers of that
township, proprietor of a well improved farm, a part of the old WILLIAM THRUSH
estate in section11,
was born on that section, June 12, 1865, and is a son of
William and Elizabeth (Rhoades) Thrush, who had settled
there about ten years prior to that date and had become useful
and influential pioneers of that neighborhood, the old Lusk
settlement. The late William Thrush was
born in Fairfield county, this state, the son of John and
Ellen Thrush, and had grown up thoroughly trained in the
ways of farming. When a young boy he moved with his
parents to Logan County and later went over to Delaware county
and was there married to Elizabeth Rhoades, who was born
in Virginia and who had come to Ohio with her parents when but a
child, the family settling in Delaware county. Not long
after their marriage William Thrush and his wife came on
up into Auglaize county and settled on a "forty" in section 11
of Clay township, where they established their home. That
was about 1855. Mr. Thrush was a good farmer and
manager and as his affairs prospered he added to his holdings
until he became the owner of 400 acres of land in Clay township
and was accounted one of the go-ahead and substantial citizens
of the county. He lived to a ripe old age, his death
occurring in 1904, and at his passing left a good memory in the
community which he had done much to develop. In 1864 he
had become associated with the Bethel Methodist Protestant
church near his home. To William Thrush and wife
were born nine children, of whom all are living save two,
Lavina and George W., the subject of this sketch
having three sisters, Delitha, Florence and Belle,
and three brothers, Byron R., Martin D. and Elmer
Thrush. Reared on the home farm in Clay township,
"Dode" Thrush received his schooling in the Lusk school
(district) No. 1) and from the days of his boyhood has been
devoted to the affairs of the farm. He married in his
twentieth year and then rented one of his father's farms and on
that place made his home for about four years, or until 1889,
when he moved to another of his father's farms, the place on
which he is now living, and after his father's death in 1904
came into possession of this place by inheritance and has
continued to reside there, he and his family being very
comfortably situated. Mr. Thrush has a well
equipped farm of 156 acres and in addition to his general
farming gives considerable attention to the raising of live
stock, feeding out about eighty hogs a year. In his
present operations he is being ably assisted by his fourth son,
Cecil, who is married and makes his home on the farm.
It was on March 5, 1885, that L. J. Thrush was united in
marriage to Nora G. Lusk, who also was born in Clay
township, daughter of Wesley and Rachel (Chiles) Lusk,
members of pioneer families there, and to this union have been
born eight children, Grover, Harley, Atha, Hazel, Percy,
Cleta, Cecil and Russell, all of whom are married
save the last named, who is still in school, attending the
Lusk school, which both his father and his mother had
attended in their school days. Grover Thrush
married Mrs. Leona (Idle) Moore, who by her first
marriage is the mother of one child, a son, Clay Moore,
and is farming in Clay township. Harley Thrush who
is farming in Wayne township, married Lulu Wells and has
one child, a son, Paul. Atha Thrush married
Carl McPharon, now living in Bellefontaine, district
agent for the Middleton Mutual Life Insurance Company, and has
two children, Ruth and Jeannette. Hazel Thrush
married Eldon Wilcox, a Union township farmer, and has
five children, Earl, Robert, Howard, Wesley and Warren
G. Percy Thrush, who also is farming in Union
township, married Hazel Naus and has one child,
Maurice. Cleta Thrush married Emery Coats, a
carpenter, living in Clay township, and has one child, Jean;
and Cecil Thrush, who remains on the home farm, assisting
his father in the management of the same, married Blanche
Rhoades and has two children, June and Roland.
The Thrush home is very pleasantly situated on rural mail
route No. 1 out of St. Johns and has for many years enjoyed an
enviable reputation for hospitality. Mr. Thrush is
one of the leading Democrats of Clay township and has for some
time been serving on the local board of education for that
township, the present president of the board. He formerly,
years ago, served for five years as a constable in that township
and there are few men in that part of the county who have a
wider acquaintance than he. For one term he served as
treasurer of the Auglaize County Fair Association.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Pub. 1923 - Page 621 |
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