Eleanor Roush 
Eleanor was born in 1751 in Shenandoah Co. VA. Eleanor's father was John Adam Roush and her mother was Susanna Sehler. Her paternal grandfather was Johann Nicholas Rausch and her paternal grandmother is Anna Catherine Alberts; her maternal grandfather is Johannes Sehler. She was an only child. She died at the age of 76 on October 27th, 1827 in Gallia Co Ohio.General Notes
Occ: Tanner
Rel: Lutheran
Note: Born in Mill Creek Valley near Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah Co., Virginia, died in Green Township, Gallia County, Ohio. . Eleanor Roush (Waddell), daughter of John Adam Roush, and her husband Alexander, followed Jacob, Philip, John, Jonas, George, Henry and Daniel her brothers, along with her son William to Ohio sometime in 1816. Her son William had moved from Virginia to Ohio earlier where he had purchased land close to Green Township. Eleanor and Alexander settled in Green Township close to their son, where property was given for a church which carries Alexander's name. The " Alexander Church" was accompanied by the donation of property for a school and a cemetery as well, with Alexander's Brother Matthew having the privilege of being the first school teacher in Green Township.
Buried at Hulbert Graveyard in Alexander Church, Gallia County Ohio. Her headstone inscribed, "Oh what a striking scen - In this cold grave appears, A Mortal turned to durst again, quit - spun out all her years." (sic)
After her parents' deaths, Eleanor and her sisters Elizabeth and Mary inherited, and operated, their father's tannery, all the sons having moved West.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1570 in Hornbach, Germany d.16 Jun 1644 in Germany
- b.1595 in Germany d.16 Jun 1644 in Ober-Moschel, Germany
- b.09 Mar 1640 in Meisenheim, Germany d.Nov 1714 in Ulmeth, Germany
- b.1575 in Wuerttemberg, Germany d.> 1598
- b.~ 1597 in Germany d.1673
- b.~ 1575
- b.1673 in Darmstadt, Germany d.1723 in Darmstadt, Germany
- b. in Birkenfeld, Germany
- b.1642 in Birkenfeld, Germany d.1703 in Germany
- b.1711 in Darmstadt, Germany d.19 Oct 1786 in Shenandoah Co. VA
- b.1673 in Meinback Over Maschul, Darnstadt, Germany
- b.1751 in Shenandoah Co. VA d.27 Oct 1827 in Gallia Co Ohio
- b.< 1699 in Germany
- b.~ 1715 in Germany d.1796 in Shenandoah Co., VA
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Eleanor and Alexander were married in a religious ceremony in 1771 in Shenandoah Co. VA. They had a daughter named Martha.
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Children
Martha Waddell
Martha was born on January 12th, 1790 in Virginia. She died at the age of 82 on October 7th, 1872 in Edray WV. She was buried in family cemetery at Red Lick Mtn WV.
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