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Rushville Branch

congregation #480761
created 2012-10-02 by bplewe
official name: Rushville Branch
assertion #3723424 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
is a(n): dual-leader branch
Bishop Lebbeus T. Coons, president unknown
assertion #3723872 by bplewe on 2019-10-04: confidence 100%.
started: between 1846 and 1847
assertion #3721080 by bplewe on 2018-04-30: confidence 100%.
ended: between Mar 1848 and Apr 1848
assertion #3735080 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
description: Early settlement, but the area was flood-prone, so the settlers moved up Keg Creek to form Coonville
assertion #3715761 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
religion: LDS
assertion #4003517 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
located at: Mills, Iowa, United States
assertion #3712761 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
location: 40°57'15"N, 95°49'45"W   (source: Silas Hillman)
10-12 miles below Coonville
assertion #3718511 by bplewe on 2018-04-30: confidence 50%.
part of: Pottawattamie (Stake)
entity #480719, assertion #3751206 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
succeeded by: Coonville Branch
Rushville was too swampy and flood-prone, so the entire settlement moved upstream.
entity #480728, assertion #4004839 by bplewe on 2019-10-04: confidence 80%.
has member: Rushville
entity #481320, assertion #3751222 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
in group: Winter Quarters Era
assertion #3726263 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
quote: 1847: I turned in with L.T. Coons and broke up a piece of prairie sod on the Mo bottom and planted it to corn, but it did not amount to much. [goes to Missouri; 1848:] I returned to my family at Bulbony Settlement as it was then called. I with L.T. Coons and others went north as far as Harris Grove to hunt us a claim of land . . . we look around the country and then return home and went up Keg Creek ten or twelve miles into the bluffs, where the creek enters into the bottom, and made us a claim [Coonville]   (source: 700145)
assertion #4005402 by bplewe on 2018-04-30: confidence 100%.
confidence in this page (0 to 1): 0.65
assertion #4021834 by bplewe on 2024-06-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Silas Hillman
entity #700145, assertion #4005401 by bplewe on 2018-04-30: confidence 100%.
see also: Emigration Company Schedules   (image: dcms.lds.org, source part: box 2 folder 18 p.1)
Feb 1848: LT Coons, captain of company of 10 "on Keg Creek"
entity #700101, assertion #4004840 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie HC Minutes 1   (source part: p.75)
Rushville Branch petitions the high council for LT Coons to be appointed a bishop, Jan 8 1848
entity #850382, assertion #4004837 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie High Priest Quorum Roll
Appears to be 4 charter members of the HP Quorum, Jan 2 1848
entity #850434, assertion #4004836 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie HC Minutes 1:78
LT Coons authorized as an acting bishop, Jan 22 1848
entity #850412, assertion #3772623 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.

Leaders:

bishop: Lebbeus Thaddeus Coons
FamilySearch: KWJD-26L , Started: 22 Jan 1848
assertion #5050 by on : confidence 0%.