The Bush Cemetery still has many downed branches from the Christmas Ice Storm in 2000.

LAST	FIRST	MIDDLE	BIRTH	DEATH
Bush	W
Bush	Lydia	A		11-26-1888

......... Wife of William Bush ......... aged 68 years, 2 months, and 3 days. ......... Sleep on mother, thy work is done. Jesus has come and borne thee home.

McMillian	Irene		9-6-1876	10-3-1876
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The back of the BUSH sign says ?"Addison Harvey Denison, Texas 9-4-1990"

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W. Bush

Lydia Bush

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Irene McMillian

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Sivells and Bush Families of Bells, Texas Major John M. Sivells, his wife Marilla Lilly Bush
and their children lived in Trigg and Caldwell Counties in Kentucky. They bore eight children
there between the years 1828 and 1851. Then, in 1851, the Sivells made the move to North Texas
settling in the area north of current day Bells, TX. John and his son Simon patented land there.
Shortly after arriving, two of the sons, Simon and William set out for the Red River area
of Cooke County where they established a trading post on the border with the Choctaw Indian
territory. The town that grew from that settlement is known to this day as Sivells Bend.
However, Simon and William didn’t stay long after enduring attacks from the Choctaws. They
returned to Bells and family. On 24 Aug 1854, Marilla’s youngest brother, Lorenzo Salvado
Bush purchased 50 acres of land near his sister for $250 from James Outback; he then purchased
and adjoining tract from Ezekial Outhouse on 3 Mar 1855. Lorenzo then returned to Kentucky
and on 31 Aug 1855 he married Laura Grasty in Caldwell Co., KY. About the same time Lorenzo
and his brother William sold their land on Hurricane Creek in Lyon County, KY and moved to
Texas for good. William settled shortly in Fannin County, but on 31 Oct 1856 William
purchased 167 acres near Bells, TX from George C. Dugan for $800. William’s first wife
Permelia Osborne had died, likely in child birth, years before. His current wife, Lydia A.
(Clark) Bush and six children made the journey with him. Their seventh and final child
would be born in Grayson County. Not long after arriving, on 15 Feb 1857, Lorenzo died,
leaving a wife and daughter. Several of the Bush and Sivells boys served in Confederate
units during the Civil War. Some may have died there as the last record of them seems to
be their enlistment in the service. Others came home to start families. Many of the family
would remain in the area until about 1900. One moved back to Kentucky. Others moved west
to the Texas panhandle or north to Arkansas. Today, only the Bush Cemetery north of Bells
remains as testament to this family. On 20 Oct 1885, the Sherman, TX Register printed this
upon the occasion of the death of Marilla Sivells: On last Saturday evening, at her home,
fifteen miles south-east of this city, in the 80th year of her useful and long life,
Marilla Sivells passed away from the cares of a mortal existence, into the realms of the
sweet beyond where rest eternal abideth. She was the help meet of Maj. John Sivills who
came to Grayson county while it was yet an unorganized wilderness, and a precinct of Fannin
county. For half a century have Marilla Sivills and her husband watched the growth of
Sherman and Grayson county, and aided in the upbuilding of this glorious land. But now
the sod of her beloved state covers all that is mortal of her, and friends and relatives
will meet her no more until the river of death shall have been crossed by them and they
view her in the heavenly home. To the distressed kindred to whom she has always been a
refuge in times of sorrow, the REGISTER offers its sincerest sympathy; and to him with
whom she has traveled the paths of life for so many years, it trusts, may come the happy
greeting on the other side where partings shall be no more. I recently found your website
on the history of Bells, TX. My mother's family, the Bush's were early settlers in the
Bells, TX area and some are still buried in the Bush cemetery there (though most of the
family left the area more than 100 years ago). Here is a quick writeup that I did on the
Bush and Sivells families that settled around Bells in the period between 1850 and 1900.

Hope this is helpful to you. Mark A. Eitzen Bush Cemetery by Cindy & Cristi Page.
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