Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 66. P1 (182) 2/2/1951 JOHN RUSHMORE. The following is from "Genealogies of Long Island Families", by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Hempstead Town Records: from Oyster Bay Town Records, Vol 1: from the New York Historical Society's Collections of Abstracts of Wills, Vols 6 to 12: from "The Carman Genealogy", by William Stillwell Carman, 6 vols, in the New York Public Library, (the only copy extant): and from "The Genealogy of John Carman", by Henry Alanson Tredwell, Brooklyn, 1946. The birth and death dates of John Rushmore cannot be found, but he was born about 1696: he was mentioned in the Hempstead Census of 1698, and he was alive in 1753, according to Hempstead Town Records quoted below. Werner says he was the son of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264, but this must be wrong as Thomas and Martha were married about 1650: further, Werner says John's eldest son Carman was born about 1725, which would make John about 70 years old when his son was born. Werner gives no dates. I therefore think that this John Rushmore was the son of Thomas and Sarah (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 132, and grandson of Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore, subject 264. Thomas and Martha (Hicks) Rushmore had a son John, who was mentioned in the Hempstead Census of 1698, with a wife Mary, so it could not be the John Rushmore of this subject, born 1696. Werner goes on to say John Rushmore married Mary Carman, daughter of John Carman, no dates given. None of the Carman genealogies mention a Mary Carman who married a John Rushmore, nor any Mary Carman, daughter of a John Carman. However, the fact that the John Rushmore of this subject named his eldest son Carman Rushmore, his wife Mary was doubtless a Carman. I therefore think that this John Rushmore's wife Mary Carman was the daughter of Caleb and Margaret (---) Carman, see subject 268,; p 1. This seems the more likely in that John Rushmore witnessed the will of Caleb Carman, dated January 3/1744. Caleb and Margaret were married in 1700, but Caleb's will lists his sons first and then his daughters, and I cannot find the date of birth of his daughter Mary. I have no proof that my assumptions above are correct: Henry Alanson Tredwell is inclined to agree with me. At any rate, the children given below, are probably correct, from the dates of their birth and the wills quoted. The following Hempstead Town Records refer to This John Rushmore. September 22/1738.John Rushmore signed as a witness on documents. September 1741.Vol 8, p 393. Had 10 acres of South Woods, valued at #3.7.O. July 1/1742.John Rushmore requested a survey of a road. January 3/1744.John Rushmore witnessed the will of Caleb Carman, born 1682, which mentioned sons Caleb, John, Silas, Joseph, and daughters Hannah, Margaret, Phebe and Mary. April 30/ 1745.John Rushmore signed as witness on documents. May 14/1746.John Rushmore signed a will as witness. October 30/1748.A road was surveyed, passing his home. April 30/1751.John Rushmore signed as a witness on documents. April 1/1753.John Rushmore, father of Hannah, bought property from Jonathan Smith. Issue:- (according to Carman Rushmore's will) 1/1. Hannah Rushmore. Born 1724, died November 1/1809. She married James Poole, baptized July 14/1728, died May 5/1804, son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole of Hempstead. See subject 32 for issue and further particulars. Subject 66 P2 (183) 1/2. Carman Rushmore. Date of birth given as 1724 or 1725, died October 30/1812, buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. He married, 1st, (no date) --- Bedell, daughter of Richard Bedell whose will, dated May 13/1761, proved April 25/1762 mentioned wife Phebe, son in law Carman Rushmore, and daughter Mary Carman, (wife of Benjamin Carman, son of Caleb Carman) and Mary's children Samuel, Stephen, Mary, Anna, and Rachel, see subject 268, page 3, which differs slightly. He married, 2nd, at Hempstead, on September 22/1760, Hannah Raynor, born 1729, died the same day as her husband, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Coombes) Raynor of Hempstead. Carman Rushmore's will, dated November 20/1810, proved November 18/1821, mentioned his wife Hannah, but no children: it also mentioned his sisters Martha, Phebe, Abigail and Hannah: also Richard Ellison, and Thomas, Benjamin and William Rushmore: also heirs of his brothers Thomas and John Rushmore. Carman evidently had no children. 1/3. John Rushmore. Werner gives no birth and death dates - simply his name. He must have been born between 1725 and 1727: he died intestate on July 10/1759, his wife Philena being named administratrix. He married at Hempstead, on May 8/1749, Philena Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Ellison or Platt) Smith. See subject 34 for issue and further particulars. 1/4. Thomas Rushmore. Born about 1726-1728, died 1792. His will, dated October 8/1788, proved May 9/1792, confirms Werner's and Carman's list of his children, see Abstracts of Wills for Queen's County, 1787-1813, by Ray C. Sawyer, 1934. He married Ruth Bedell, whose will dated March 7/1796, proved September 23/1799, named as her heirs, sons William and John, daughter Abigail Briant, grand daughter Abigail Van der Water, Ruth Rainer, and Elizabeth Downing. Issue:- 2/1. William Rushmore, born October 14/1744, died August 4/1796, buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. He married in 1774, Mary Carman, born 1756, died January 26/1834, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bedell) Carman who were married in 1740, see subject 268, page 4. After William's death, Mary married, 2nd, William Losee, who died in 1832, leaving his estate to his wife Mary and her children by her first husband. Issue :- 3/1. Abigail Rushmore, born 1775. She worried Adam Mott and had Mary and William. The Mott genealogy doesn't confirm this. 3/2. Thomas Rushmore, born September 30/1779, died December 4/1826. He married at Huntington, L.I., on February 24/1798, Jane Seaman, born October 15/1779, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hall) Seaman. Issue:- 4/1. Lewis Rushmore, born October 11/1799. The Seaman genealogy says he married Mary Seamen, born about 1822, daughter of Samuel L. and Elizabeth (Smith) Seamen. 4/2. William Rushmore, born August 21/1801. He married Susan Ireland, daughter of Job Ireland. Issue:- 5/1. Caroline Ireland. 5/2. Lewis Elbert Ireland, born September 12/1848. 4/3. Samuel Rushmore, born July 29/1803, died January 19/1813. 4/4. Lorenzo Dow Rushmore, born July 30/1806. He was a minister. He married at the first Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, on August 31/1826, Ann Gildersleeve, daughter of David Gildersleeve. Subject 66 P3 (184) Issue: - 5/1. William T. Rushmore, born May 21/1827. 5/2. Merwin Rushmore, born September 13/1834. 5/3. Emily Rushmore, born March 25/1837. 5/4. William Fisk Rushmore, born March 13/1839. 4/5. Elbert Rushmore, born April 22/1809, died at Hempstead, April 16/1841. He married on October 11/1836, Sarah Frances Fanning, born at Albany, September 11/1817, died December 9/1878, daughter of Ames and Sarah (Hazen) Fanning, a lawyer of Albany, N.Y. (This is from "The History of the Fanning Family', by Walter Frederick Brooks, Worcester, 1905.) Issue :- 5/1. Alonzo Hazen Rushmore, born 1837. 5/2. Adelia Jane Rushmore, born October 24/1839. 5/3. Elizabeth Dorland Rushmore, born June 19/1846. She married Henry Clay Bennett. 5/4. James Dorland Rushmore. He married Kate Johnson Skidmore. 5/5. Emma Martin Rushmore. She married Percy Butler Bromfield of Hempstead. 5/6. George Crosby Rushmore. He married Alice Irene Daffy of Brooklyn. 5/7. Frederick Hazen Rushmore. 4/6. Elizabeth Rushmore, born November 24/1811. She married on December 30/1834, John S. Seabury. Issue 5/1. Harriet H. Seabury. 5/2. Elizabeth E. Seabury. 5/3. Jane A. Seabury. 4/7. Sarah Rushmore, born March 22/1814. She married John French. Issue: - 5/1. Sarah French. 5/2. June French. 5/3. John French. 4/8. Stephen Rushmore, born July 23/1817. He married Margaret Butler. Issue :- 5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore. 4/9. Thomas Rushmore, born June 6/1820. He married on June 21/1846, Mary Francis, and had one child born 1847. 3/3. Carman Rushmore, born January 4/1783, died March 30/1832. He married on May 24/1801, Ruth Pine, born March 1/1782, daughter of Reuben and Jemima (---) Pine. Issue:- (from his will) 4/1. John Rushmore, born at Smithtowm, August 15/1802. (This is from the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 42, p 292) 4/2. Amelia Rushmore. 4/3. Ann Rushmore, born August 26/1809. She married on August 26/1847, as his second wife, Samuel Snedeker, born April 28/1791. 4/4. Rachel Rushmore. 4/5. Elizabeth Jane Rushmore. 4/6. Benjamin Carman Rushmore. 4/7. Hannah Rushmore. 4/8. Mary Rebecca Rushmore. 3/4. Benjamin Rushmore, born April 17/1785. In 1813 he signed a Subject 66 P3A (184A) extra page with more details on Carman Rushmore: 4/?. Stephen Rushmore, born July 23/1817, died May 12/1890. He married Margaret Louise Butler, born August 16/1819, died April 27/1902. Child:- 5/1. Elizabeth Rushmore. 4/9.Thomas Rushmore, born June 6/1830. He married on June 21/1848, Mary Francis and had one child born in 1847. 3/3. Carman Rushmore, born January 4/1783, died March 30/1832. He married on May 24/1801, Ruth Pine, born March 1/1782, died March 27/1858, both buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead. Children:- (from his will and Greenfield Cemetery records) 4/1.John Rushmore, born at Smithtown, L.I., August 15/1802, died May 7/1873. His wife's name is not known. Child:- 5/1. Edward Carman Rushmore, born 1830, died May 3O/1881. He married Mary Eliza Dunn born August 31/1850, died June 17/19l1, both buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, Child:- 6/1. Charles E. Rushmore, born 1860, died l931. He was a lawyer with Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern, New York City. He married Jeanette E. Carpenter, who died October 31/1950. He had a large estate "Carmore", at Woodbury Falls, near Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Mount Rushmore, 6000 ft, in The Black Hills of South Dakota, was named after him. I quote as follows from the book entitled "Mount Rushmore", by Gilbert C. Fite, published in 1952 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla .:- "In 1883, a tin mine, the Etta, was opened, which caused excitement among Eastern investors, Shortly after, James Wilson, a New York mining promoter, engaged Professor Gilbert E. Bailey, state geologist of Wyoming, to examine mining claims in the area where Keystone was later located. In need of talent, as well as geological advice, Wilson hired Charles E. Rushmore, a young but able New York attorney, to check the titles to properties on which Bailey reported favourably. Although an Easterner, Rushmore quickly made friends among the miners and prospectors. One day he was returning to headquarters of the Harney Peak Consolidated Tin Co., Ltd., located at Pine Camp, which was north of the great granite peak soon to bear his name. With him were David N. ??anzey, a local business man, and William W. Challis, a prospector and guide. As they neared this spectacular mountain, Rushmore turned to Challis and asked its name, Challis jestingly replied: "Never had any but it has now - we'll call the damn thing Rushmore". Thus in 1885, the chance remark of a rough miner to a visiting lawyer, fastened a permanent name to the mountain. The United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognised the name "Mount Rushmore" in June 1930." Forty years later, Charles E. Rushmore donated $5000 towards Gutzon Borglum's sculpture of the four presidents' heads on the mountain - the largest single contribution. The Memorial was dedicated by President Coolidge on August 10th, 1927. Child :- 7/1. Jean Rushmore. she married, 1st, Mr. Patterson: they were divorced and she married, 2nd, Edmund Le Roy Wilson, who graduated from Princeton in 1918. In 1956 Jean lived at 400 Park Ave., New York City. Subject 66 P4 (185) petition for a road in Cedar Swamp: 1816 lived in Babylon: from 1834 to 1840 Town Clerk: 1848 gave a large tract of his land for the Hempstead Old Town Burying Ground: January 11/1844 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He married, 1st, on February 16/1809, Sarah Sammis, born December 28/1789, died September 17/1812, daughter of David Sammis; 2nd, on February 14/1816, Elizabeth Clowes, born November 12/1796, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Searing) Clowes, (From N.Y. Gen & Biog Record Vol 50, pp 163-5.) Issue:- (by his first wife Sarah Sammis) 4/1. Martha Rushmore, born June 7/1810. She married in 1837, William Bennett. Issue : - 5/1. William Bennett, 5/2. Sydney Bennett. Issue:- (by his second wife Elizabeth Clowes) 4/2.Sarah Elizabeth Rushmore, born July 17/1817. She married in 1836, Joseph Hall. 4/3. Benjamin Franklin Rushmore,. born August 8/1820. He married at Hempstead on February 29/1848, Catherine Tredwell, born 1825, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Simonsen) Tredwell. 4/4. Cornelia S. Rushmore, born December 26/1826, died May 12/1828. 4/5. Caroline Rushmore, born March 16/1829. 4/6. Henry Edgar Rushmore, born November 7/1834, died April 2/1841. 4/7. Edwin Rushmore, born August 7/1836. 4/8. Harriet Antoinette Rushmore, b June 29/1838, d April 7/1839. 3/5. Ann Rushmore, born 1787, died January 20/1838, buried in Hempstead Town Cemetery. She married Gilbert B. Hutchins, Issue:- 4/1. Rushmore Hutchins. 4/2. George Hutchins. - 4/3. Hamilton Hutchins. 3/6. Ruth Rushmore. She married Israel Hutchins. Issue:- 4/1. William Hutchins. 3/7. William Rushmore, born April 14/1783. He married, 1st, on October 27/1812, Rebecca Gould, born October 23/1794, died December 18/1828, daughter of Thomas Gould. He married, 2nd, on December 3/1829, Huldah E. Jones, born October 28/1795, widow of the Reverend William Ross. Issue:- (by his first wife Rebecca Gould) 4/1. Emeline Rushmore, born December 3/1814, died 1896. She married on April 30/1832, Isaac Hand Herbert, born 1810, died March 5/1846, son of Joseph and Frances (Hand) Herbert and had six children. (This is from Virkus Genealogical Dictionary) 4/2. Cornelia Rushmore, born October 14/1816. She married on August 18/1836, J. Sands, who died December 1/1840, and had Anna Louise and Rebecca Jane Sands 4/3. William C. Rushmore, born October 8/1818. He married on March 11/1841, Henrietta Dikeman. Issue:- 5/1. William H. Dikeman Rushmore, born May 16/1842. 5/2. John Dikeman Rushmore, born September 5/1845. Subject 66 P5 (186) 4/4. Mary Rushmore, born July 24/1820. 4/5. Thomas L. Rushmore, born in Brooklyn, December 2/1822, died April 13/1904, buried in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y. He married on November 25/1845, Eliza Vail Moser, who died June 9/1911, daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Vail) Moser, who were married in 1834.(?) Issue:- 5/1.Samuel Rushmore, born May 26/1847. 5/2. Thomas Hoyt Rushmore, born --, died at Rye, N.Y., aged 25. 5/3. Everett Rushmore, born August 27/1853, died November 1/1856. 5/4. Rebecca Gould Rushmore. She married William Henry Carpen- ter, born October 29/1849, died April 20/1910, son of Henry N. and Deborah (Cornell) Carpenter, a real estate dealer. They lived in Mamaroneck, and had one son. 5/5. Lucinda Vail Rushmore. She married William Thomas Cornell, born November 11/1845, died January 1/1907, son of William and Sarah (Theall) Cornell 4/6. George Rushmore, born December 24/1827, died August 2/1846. Issue:- (by his second wife Huldah E. Jones) 4/7. Henrietta Rushmore, born December 6/1830. 4/8. Charles Rushmore, born February 28/1833. 2/2. Abigail Rushmore, born about 1746. She married on October 17/1763, Jacob Bryant, and had a daughter Hannah. 2/3. Elizabeth Rushmore. Not mentioned by Werner but mentioned in her mother's and her brother John's will. She was married and had Abigail, Ruth and Elizabeth who married a Mr. Downing. 2/4. John Rushmore, born 1751, died November 26/1838: never married. His will, dated April 5/1826, proved December 28/1838, named as his heirs, his brother William's children, and his sister Abigail's child Hannah: also his sister Elizabeth's children: also Elizabeth Raynor.