It is thought that
Elder John Bush was a native of Kentucky, and was a member of the Baptist
Church and probably an ordained minister, before leaving that State. As
early as 1825 he came to Indiana and untied with Harbert’s Creek Church. He
was a messenger from that body to Silver Creek Association in 1826, which is
the first time his name is found on the record.
As the
organization of Coffee Creek Association from Harbert’s Creek and from 1828
to 1832 a messenger from Bear Creek, both churches going with Madison
Association the year last named. In that body his name appears on the
minutes up to 1837, and he was pretty extensively engaged in pastoral work
to that date, since which I find no mention of him except in the Circular
Letter of Coffee Creek Association of 1840, written by Elder John Vawter,
where the name of John Bush is given as one of the Baptist ministers who had
died within the past few years.
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