The Proeger Family · Generation 7 — Earl's earliest known

Lucy Bush

Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry · born about 1790

Lucy Bush

Probable

Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry · born about 1790

Born
about 1790
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Quisenberry Memorials (1900), p. 67 S333, a compiled family book rather than a record, names Louisa as their daughter and gives her 1827 marriage to David Chenault; the couple's own marriage register, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, has been read from the image

Evidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book names Louisa as her daughter; two sons' death certificates prove her name Bush. Weak or missing: No record names Louisa as her child; her parents come only from SAR and DAR lineage books. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Birth1790
Born about 1790 and died about 1872, both years from the family book

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Names1907
🆕 Her maiden name, Bush, is now on two death certificates, both of her sons: Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. (1907) and John Martin Quisenberry (1914). The second gives her birthplace as Clark County, Kentucky S493S494. She is in the Clark County censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 S495S496S497. An SAR application and a DAR entry name her parents as Francis Bush and Rachel Martin, his second wife; they are compiled lineages, so this is probable S498S500. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault; wife of Colby Burris Quisenberry, married 16 December 1810, Winchester, Kentucky

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Lucy Bush · Sources

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Sources cited on this card

8 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S333A. C. Quisenberry, Memorials of the Quisenberry Family (1900), p. 67. Ancestry collection 62282, image 4297925964. Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811, married David Chenault 25 October 1827; children include “7. Nancy, m. Martin”. A compiled secondary source, not an original record.
  2. S493Kentucky, U.S., Death Records — City of Lexington, Registered No. 217: Colby B. Quisenberry, 1907. Ancestry record 601240356. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby B. Quisenberry [Jr.], widower, born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky, died 20 March 1907 at Avon, Fayette County; father Colby B. Quisenberry, born Virginia; mother Lucy Bush; informant his son Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.; buried Lexington Cemetery. The informant was a grandson. Three censuses and his brother's 1914 certificate (S494) put the elder Colby's birth in Kentucky.
  3. S494Kentucky, U.S., Death Records — Montgomery County, file no. 8269: John Martin Quisenberry, 1914. Ancestry record 751294136. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John Martin Quisenberry, retired farmer, born 26 April 1833, Clark County, Kentucky, died 10 March 1914; father Colby Quisenberry, born Madison County; mother Lucy Bush, born Clark County; informant Sarah Frances Quisenberry; buried Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling. Lucy's birthplace comes from her son's informant, so it is secondary.
  4. S4951850 U.S. Federal Census — Colby B. Quisenbery household, District 2, Clark County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 16999313. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 211, 17 August 1850: Colby B., 61, farmer, real estate about $41,580; Lucy, 60; Tandy, 24; Elkanah, 19; John M., 17 (all born Kentucky); and a labourer, Samuel Kapell. A Tandy Quisenbery, 59, farms two dwellings away. One page, two hints (record 16999314 for Lucy).
  5. S4961860 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Quesinbery household, District 2, Clark County, Kentucky (P.O. Winchester). Ancestry record 39306011. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 14 July 1860: Colby, 71, farmer, real estate $30,600; Lucy B., 70; Elkanah, 27; Martin, 25, shoe merchant; Sarah, 20; and two Perkins children, Leslie C., 11, and Rachael B., 9. One page, two hints (record 39306012 for Lucy). The page does not say who the Perkins children were.
  6. S4971870 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Quisenberry household, Precinct 6, Clark County, Kentucky (P.O. Winchester). Ancestry record 22007133. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed August 1870: Colby, 80, retired farmer, real estate $12,000, marked “Insane”; Lucy, 78. One page, two hints (record 18428720 for Lucy). He was alive in August 1870, so the family books' 1870 death falls after the census.
  7. S498U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications — national no. 27139, James Marvin Hinkle, 1914. Ancestry record 315470. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable A great-grandson's lineage: Colby Burris Quisenberry (1788–1870) and Lucy Bush (1790–1872), married 1810; Lucy the daughter of Francis Bush and Rachel Martin (his second wife); Francis Bush born 23 February 1750, Orange County, Virginia, died 1836, Clark County, a private in the 2nd Virginia. The supplemental line gives Colby's parents as James Quisenberry (1759–1830) and Jane Burris, married 1776. A compiled lineage of 1914, not a record, so the parents are probable. The cover sheet is record 315462.
  8. S500DAR Lineage Book, p. 101, no. 141325: Mrs. Electra Helm Withers. Ancestry record 3600439. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Descent through Joyce Duncan Quisenberry (1828–1911), wife of Joseph H. Withers, from Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; Francis Bush married second Rachel Martin (1767–1860), daughter of Lieut. John Martin and Rachel Pierce. It gives Jane Burris's birth as 1739, where the SAR application (S498) says 1759. Both are recorded.

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