Person:Julia Stockton (2)

Notes

• wife of Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of Declaration of Independence
• member of Ladies Association, the leading fund raiser during the Revolutionary War
• had 13 known children with 6 sons and 3 daughters surviving to adulthood

1. ↑ Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades. Colonial families of the United States of America: in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. (New York, Boston: The Grafton Press, 1907)
   6:407.

   BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D., ... m. 11th January, 1776, Julia Stockton, who d. 7th July, 1848, eldest dau. of Hon. Richard STOCKTON. ....

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 8160252 , in Find A Grave
   includes photos, last accessed Sep 2022.

   "Mrs Julia Rush
   consort of
   Benjamin Rush MD
   Born March 2, 1759
   Died July 7, 1848
   For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ
   Shall all be made alive"