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-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%.

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%.

located at: Mills, Iowa, United States

assertion #3712761 by bplewe on 2018-03-05: confidence 100%.

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%.

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%.

Members:

bishop: Lebbeus Thaddeus Coons FamilySearch: KWJD-26L , valid starting: 1848-01-22

assertion #27 by bplewe on 2018-02-23: confidence 100%.

bishop: Lebbeus Thaddeus Coons FamilySearch: KWJD-26L , valid starting: 1848-01-22

assertion #27 by bplewe on 2018-02-23: confidence 100%.