At the age of nineteen, Abraham F. Rush enlisted on 11 August 1862 during the Civil War, joining Company H, 15th New Jersey Volunteers at Flemington. He received an honorable discharge on 22 June 1865 having attained the rank of Corporal. He reportedly was a hero at 36 engagements. One of his former comrades stated at Abraham's funeral that, " no better soldier ever shouldered a musket than "Polk" Rush. He had acquired the nickname, "Polk", during the campaign of James K. Polk when he was 2 years old and the men in the neigherborhood store, strong Democrats, taught him to cheer for James K. Polk. Abraham then served as a captain on the Morris Canal for a couple of years before returning to Scotts Mountain, Montana to farm. He and his wife had eleven children, three of which died from diphtheria within a period of one week. At the time of his death he owned two farms at Montana, Harmony Township, and was regarded as one of the wealthiest men in that area. He had been very active in church work and was noted for his kindness to neighbors.
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His funeral was reportedly one of the largest ever held in Montana, NJ. Members of the American Legion Post #66 (John P. Reynolds Post) served as pallbearers as Grand Army of the Republic representatives fired a salute in his honor.
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His funeral was reportedly one of the largest ever held in Montana, NJ. Members of the American Legion Post #66 (John P. Reynolds Post) served as pallbearers as Grand Army of the Republic representatives fired a salute in his honor.
At the age of nineteen, Abraham F. Rush enlisted on 11 August 1862 during the Civil War, joining Company H, 15th New Jersey Volunteers at Flemington. He received an honorable discharge on 22 June 1865 having attained the rank of Corporal. He reportedly was a hero at 36 engagements. One of his former comrades stated at Abraham's funeral that, " no better soldier ever shouldered a musket than "Polk" Rush. He had acquired the nickname, "Polk", during the campaign of James K. Polk when he was 2 years old and the men in the neigherborhood store, strong Democrats, taught him to cheer for James K. Polk. Abraham then served as a captain on the Morris Canal for a couple of years before returning to Scotts Mountain, Montana to farm. He and his wife had eleven children, three of which died from diphtheria within a period of one week. At the time of his death he owned two farms at Montana, Harmony Township, and was regarded as one of the wealthiest men in that area. He had been very active in church work and was noted for his kindness to neighbors.
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His funeral was reportedly one of the largest ever held in Montana, NJ. Members of the American Legion Post #66 (John P. Reynolds Post) served as pallbearers as Grand Army of the Republic representatives fired a salute in his honor.
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His funeral was reportedly one of the largest ever held in Montana, NJ. Members of the American Legion Post #66 (John P. Reynolds Post) served as pallbearers as Grand Army of the Republic representatives fired a salute in his honor.
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