By Christopher Rush Whenever I’m driving around town during the busy holiday season and come across a hard working employee from the U.S. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, Amazon or any other package delivery service, I always think of my father. Like a lot of military veterans leaving the armed forces at the close of theContinue reading “Delivering Christmas Memories: Forever Grateful Son of a Postman”
Category Archives: Family and Ancestry
Chapter 2: The Rush & Chapman Families Settle in Oklahoma
(Note: Much of the following history is also found in a previous article by the author, The Rush and Chapman Families in Early Day Oklahoma, https://goingrogue.blog/2020/09/03/early-rush-chapman-families-in-oklahoma/) The forlorn Frisco Cemetery outside of the small south central Oklahoma town of Stonewall contains the graves of the very first generation of the Rush family ancestors in present-dayContinue reading “Chapter 2: The Rush & Chapman Families Settle in Oklahoma”
Chapter 1: The Welch & Hess Families of Indian Territory
Like many families living on the American frontier, the Welch and Hess families’ lineage and history are somewhat shrouded by the passage of time. Record-keeping for frequently migrating individuals over 100 years ago is often scant. But thanks to the Dawes Rolls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls), the Native American portion of the family heritage has been well-preserved andContinue reading “Chapter 1: The Welch & Hess Families of Indian Territory”
Prologue: An American Family
(Note: I’ve recently decided to begin putting into writing many stories of family history told to me over the years. While this won’t have much interest beyond our immediate family, I thought it was important to preserve as many of these stories as possible as entire generations are passing on. I don’t want these importantContinue reading “Prologue: An American Family”
The Rush and Chapman Families in Early Day Oklahoma
By Christopher R. Rush STONEWALL, OKLA. — On Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, our immediate family — Chris and Sheryl Rush, along with son Evan and his wife Julia, and daughter Elizabeth — took the opportunity to drive to the historic Frisco Cemetery near Stonewall in south-central Oklahoma. This cemetery holds the graves of a handfulContinue reading “The Rush and Chapman Families in Early Day Oklahoma”
Going Rogue 