Jacob Roush (1746 -1830)
"History of Upper Ohio Valley," published by Brant Fuller Company, Madison, Wisconsin, states that Jacob Roush was with General Andrew Lewis in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774. He is so recorded in the Memorial at the Comstock Monument in To Endie Wei Park in Point Pleasant. This has always been tradition with the descendants.
On his tombstone in the Roush Cemetery near Cheshire, Ohio is this inscription, "Jacob Roush, Pvt. Barbour's Va. Reg., Rev. War, bom 1746, died 1830. (Roush)."
Rommey and Winchester pay roll p. 29-30, lists both Jacob and Henry Roush.
He married Catherine Fox. They are buried in the Roush Cemetery which either he or his brother Philip gave the land. Many other of younger generation of Roushes are buried in this same cemetery one mile west of Cheshire, Ohio.
They had eight children; many of their descendants live in the Cheshire and adjoining communities.
