Elizabeth Roush (1758-1832)
Elizabeth Roush, daughter of John Adam and wife Susannah Schlem, was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, December 18, 1758, died in Green County, Tenn. August 19, 1832. On March 6, 1779 she was married to John Nease, of Shenandoah County, Va. He was born January 8, 1757, in Shenandoah County, Va. They are buried in the St. James Lutheran Cemetery a few miles south of Greenville, Tenn. They had 12 children. (See Roush History Vol. Ill, page 112 flf) They went from the Shenandoah County to the Tennessee community on the Nolachucky River where they owned hundreds of acres on Meadow Creek south of the Nolachucky about the same time that the Roush Brothers settled on the 6,000 acre tract on the Ohio north of the Kanawha River in Virginia.
Records state that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. We have not had it documented. They had twelve children.
Tradition says that Balser Roush, of whom we find no records went to this Tennessee Community.