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About Rachel J. Rash
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52847872
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LC8K-2CX
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Lewis & Rachel Rash recollections by daughter Flora Rash Thompson and grandson Clint Thompson in:
https://media.geni.com/p9/2542/3588/53444837b44236ab/Flora_and_Clint_Thompson_recollections_original.pdf?hash=2558575f02e190600d915e797d8c0110d23977146722878d28300d95e9b5f70f.1712386799
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Miller Cemetery guide - Union, Hardin County, Iowa - A map to the location of all graves, with links to detailed information on each.
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Our Iowa Family, by Robert Fahey. The History and Stories of these families and more: Rash, Higgason, Hammer, Brown, Campbell, Adams, Fahey, O’Neill, Phinney. Most recently updated June 2019.
https://media.geni.com/p13/15/b5/20/9f/5344485ef55470e3/our_iowa_family_-_last_updated_6-9-2021_original.pdf?hash=9e0a9fde217266e75b1592e8dc18e445e15e2aa9c8c24c1e6a02335916b69a3c.1712386799
- Updated from MyHeritage Match by SmartCopy: Oct 6 2014, 19:48:56 UTC
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Mar 14 2015, 16:23:06 UTC
Children of LEWIS RASH and RACHEL HAMMER are:
- ALVA CURTIS RASH, b. December 3, 1857, Union, Hardin County, IA; d. July 21, 1921, Gordon, Neb.
- COLUMBUS ELLIOTT RASH, b. May 1859, Union Twp, on the old Rash homestead; d. May 16, 1940. Burial Union Cemetery.
- NANCY ELIZABETH RASH, b. June 16, 1861; d. October 22, 1889.
- FLORA ANN RASH, b. December 15, 1863, Hardin County, Iowa; d. February 1, 1936, Whitten, Hardin, Iowa.
- BENJAMIN JESSE RASH, b. March 25, 1865; d. December 20, 1951, Hubbard, IA.
- EMMA ROSALIE RASH, b. April 16, 1867, Hardin County, Iowa; d. Aug. 11, 1942.
- SOLON LINCOLN RASH, b. August 28, 1869, d. May 19, 1949.
- HENRY THOMAS RASH, b. August 11, 1871; d. February 22, 1955.
- BURTON FRANCIS RASH, b. November 10, 1874; d. March 12, 1875. Burial: Miller Cemetery, Hardin County Iowa. Info.: Twin to Bertha Jane
- BERTHA JANE RASH, b. November 10, 1874; d. April 10, 1950.
- ANDREW SETH RASH, b. January 12, 1878; d. September 15, 1919 in the hospital at Iowa Falls, Iowa. He had 480 acres of land in Texas. Burial: Miller Cemetery, Hardin County Iowa
- GERTIE MAY RASH, b. February 22, 1881; d. March 12, 1881. Burial: Miller Cemetery, Hardin County Iowa
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Rachel Hammer Rash write-up in Nancy Miller Thompson Smith's 2015 book The Genealogy of the Rash and Hammer Families:
RACHEL HAMMER (7)
Born: 23 May 1836
Where: Jefferson County, Tennessee
Father: Seth Hammer (14)
Mother: Elizabeth Janeway (15)
Husband: Lewis Ellis Rash (6)
Died: 13 November 1893
Buried: Miller Cemetery
Where: Hardin County Iowa
Children:
1. Alva Curtis Rash 3 December 1857
2. Columbus Elliott Rash 29 May 1859
3. Nancy Elizabeth Rash 16 January 1861
4. Flora Ann Rash (3) 15 December 1863
5. Benjamin Jesse Rash 25 March 1866
6. Emma Rosalie Rash 16 April 1868
7. Solon Lincoln Rash 28 August 1869
8. Henry Thomas Rash 11 August 1871
9. Bertha Jane Rash 10 November 1874 (died 17 March 1875)
10. Burton Francis Rash 10 November 1874 died 17 March 1875
11. Andrew Seth Rash 12 January 1877
12. Bertie May Rash 22 February 1881 died in infancy
(The Family Bible of Lewis Ellis and Rachel Hammer Rash, Iowa Genealogical Society in Des Moines, Iowa.)
In the 1920’s Flora Ann Rash Thompson wrote the following about her mother:
"Mother died on November 13, 1893 when she was 57 years old. She had been ailing about one year. Father had a housekeeper for several years. He later married Della McCollum. He lived to be eighty-one years old. At this writing he has forty-three grandchildren and seventy-one great grandchildren." (Flora Ann Rash Thompson, written 1926 to 1936 for her children.)
Thomas Jefferson Hammer, whose letter was quoted in the preceding story, wrote a book, Biography of Seth Hammer, about his father which is quoted in Part II of this endeavor. Refer to the Table of Contents for "Seth and Elizabeth Janeway Hammer" for details. Rachel Hammer Rash, the wife of Lewis Ellis Rash, was the sister of the author. In his book he writes:
"Great changes have taken place in Iowa since the fifties. Looking back over a half-century, I have a vision of miles of open prairie that lay between Hammer Grove and Timber Creek, to the north, in Marshall County. There were points on the road, then little traveled, south of the Kentucky settlement, from which a house could not be seen with the naked eye. We used this road in going to the Rash settlement, in Hardin County. I remember helping Lewis Rash drive a cow and young calf (which father had given to Rachel) from our home in Jasper to Hardin County in the spring of 1859. Though then under ten years of age, I yet retain a panorama of that part of Iowa in its newness, wildness and ocean-like vastness. Before my mind’s eye arise northern Jasper, northern Marshall and southern Hardin Counties with their miles upon miles of unimproved prairie land only awaiting the touch of farmers with vision to make that fertile region ‘blossom as the rose.’
"Only a few years before, the Indians, with their bows and arrows, astride bareback ponies, were riding these plains and chasing the buffalo, their squaws and papooses dependent upon their skill as huntsmen for food and clothing during the long cold winter when this vast prairie would be bleak and bare and the hills and level plain mantled with the fleecy white to a depth of from one to three feet. But those wild scenes have passed forever.
"Rachel Hammer was married to Lewis Rash, in Jasper County, Iowa, December 27, 1856. In the spring of 1858 they settled in Hardin county, where the following sons and daughters were born: Alva Curtis, Columbus Elliott, Nancy Elizabeth, Flora Ann, Benjamin Jesse, Emma Rosalie, Solon Lincoln, Henry Thomas, Burton Francis and Bertha Jane (twins), Andrew Seth and Gertie May.
"Burton Francis and Girtie May died in infancy and were buried in the Miller Cemetery, Hardin County, Iowa. All the others, except Nancy Elizabeth, were living in 1917.
"By industry, economy and good management, Lewis E. Rash accumulated a fortune, for a farmer, leaving an estate, at his demise (1912), valued at about $90,000. Lewis was buried in the Miller Cemetery, Hardin county, Iowa". (Hammer, Thomas Jefferson, Biography of Seth Hammer, 1917, pp. 70, 71)
Rachel Hammer was born May 3, 1836 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Her parents, Seth and Elizabeth Janeway Hammer, were members of the Friends Church, for at least, six generations before her. Many of her progenitors were renowned ministers in the Church.
The Rash forefathers were never members of the Friends faith, but were Baptists as far back, at least, as five generations. However, it seems more than likely that the two families were acquainted in East Tennessee. Several of the brothers and sisters of Lewis and Rachel Hammer Rash were married in Iowa although the families lived in different counties. The marriages between the two families continued for two more generations.
The Enterprise newspaper, Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, November 24, 1893:
OBITUARY
Mrs. Rachel Rash, wife of Lewis Rash, residing five miles southwest of Union, died on Monday in her 58th year. She was a mother of twelve children, nine of whom, six sons and three daughters, together with her husband, survived her. Mr. and Mrs. Rash were among the earliest pioneers, having lived in this neighborhood more than thirty-eight years, and are widely known and esteemed. The surviving relatives have the warmest sympathy of the community. The funeral was held at the Miller school house on Tuesday, and internment in the Miller Cemetery.
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Rachel J. Rash's Timeline
| 1836 |
May 23, 1836
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Jefferson City, Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States
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| 1857 |
December 3, 1857
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Union, Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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| 1859 |
May 29, 1859
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Union, Hardin, Iowa, United States
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| 1861 |
January 16, 1861
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Union, Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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| 1863 |
December 15, 1863
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Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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| 1866 |
March 25, 1866
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Hardin, Clayton County, Iowa, United States
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| 1868 |
April 16, 1868
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Union, Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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| 1869 |
August 28, 1869
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Union, Hardin, IA, Union Township, Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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| 1871 |
August 11, 1871
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Union, Hardin County, Iowa, United States
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