Hello:
I have continued my research on Catherine (Kitty) Rush, who married
Merrit H. Cave on June 21, 1835 in Monroe County, Missouri.
I believe I have found that Catherine Rush and Merrit H. Cave had their
first child, and named him Gabriel Cave, born in 1838. This might be due to
Gabriel having cared for her after her parents died.
If you examine Butler County, Missouri, St. Clair County, Missouri, and
Pettis County, Missouri you will find descendants and information I am
working on. The children that I am showing in a tentative file are born from
1838, being Gabriel, to Merrit Cave born abt 1852. Then, in 1861, in St.
Clair County, Missouri a Merritt H. Cave marries. Is this the same Merritt
H. Cave that married Catherine Rush, possibly remarrying after she died.
This would make me a descendant of Catherine (Kitty Rush), and Merritt H.
Cave, thru son Merritt Cave, born 1852, who married Jenny and was residing in
Butler County, Missouri in the 1880 Census.
I would be very interested in anything you might find on this line.
Thomas W. Rogers
924 E. Jackson Street
Morton, Illinois 61550