China B Bushong Livingston, 85 years old, of Willard , Missouri, died March 19, 2013. She leaves behind her husband, Doran Livingston, two children, Jerry and Sheila, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was the daughter of Corbett Bushong and Lyda Click Bushong. Corbett was the son of David Newton Bushong and Clarissa Amyx Bushong. David was the son of Jacob Hamilton Bushong and Susan West Bryant Bushong. "Hamp" was the son of John Andrew Bushong and Ferraby White Bushong. John Andrew was the son of George Wasington Bushong and Martha Davis Bushong. China was my mother's first cousin. April Legler aalegler@indiana.edu<mailto:aalegler@indiana.edu> 812-876-9951

Boschong Subscribers, How many of you knew that not only did Pennsylvania produce a lot of coal, gas and steel, but oil. My Uncle Casey worked for Kendall Oil in Pennsylvania. And they also drilled for oil in Ohio. The reference to Wood County and Murphytown would have to be Ohio since there isn't a town or county by those names in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure which Bushon farm this would be on in Ohio as there were a lot of them there. Maybe someone knows? --------------------- The Titusville Herald Titusville, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 5 April 1899 Page 3, Column 3 LATE OIL NEWS ----------------------- NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST A Good Deep-Sand Well near String town. Pittsburg, 4 April -- (Special) -- In the deep sand territory near Stringtown, Tyler county, the South Penn Oil company has drilled in its No. 2 on the P. G. Wright farm and has a good producer. The well made five barrels the first 18 hours and is still drilling/ In the same district the South Penn Oil company has shot its No. 14, F. R. Ball and increased its production to 160 barrels a day. The wildcat on the Garner farm, north of Proctor, Wetzel county, has been drilled through the Big Injun and is a duster in that formation: it will probably be drilled to the Gordon. Southwest of the Murphytown development in Wood county, Barnsdall & Co. have drilled in a test well on the BUSHON farm and have a 20 barrel producer. The location is slightly in advance of developments and gives sufficient room for several locations in the vicinity of the new strike. Operations in the Murphytown district have been very quiet for several months, that end of the extension having been very thoroughly drilled over. Both the Ogdin and Hendershot pools have very few locations left and no hope of extending either in any direction. -------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong

No Noel, With all due respect. I will not go there on the different spellings and set myself up for criticism once again. That one each individual will have to figure out for themselves. Gloria ------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: nwbushong <nwbushong@frontiernet.net> To: BOSCHONG <BOSCHONG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 7:54 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Fw: Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Gloria I like them all, but since I have two grandchildren living in Reading, Pa. I like that one. Noel Eugene (Boschung) Bushong P.S. I'm surprised that no one has caught my spelling of (BOSCHUNG) and not BOSCHONG. Gloria can you elaborate more on the spelling. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Oops, Well that certainly didn't come out right did it? I apologize for that too quick response. May I suggest that anyone who is interested in the Bushong slaves, do a search of the BOSCHONG Archives with the word slave and slaves to see how many documents I have put on the List already concerning slaves. I have worked very hard to provide a lot of information to this List. It would be appreciated if we could cover some new ground or a topic that someone is stuck on. There certainly are plenty of those. Like Elizabeth Bushon in 1760 or the unidentified Bushongs in Ohio or why there aren't any obits for some of the early Bushongs or even a mention of them in newspapers. Or why there aren't any early chancery records or orphan court records available in Pennsylvania for Bushongs. :) Or where some of the early Bushong land was physically located in reference to today. Since you live in Pennsylvania Judy, I would think you would know where all this land that I transcribed the Deeds for is actually located today. That would really be a big help since then we could use Google earth to see them for ourselves. Thanks, Gloria ---------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Judy, That was covered on the List a long time ago. :) Thanks, Gloria -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: jacassidy22 <jacassidy22@verizon.net> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:12 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. There is always that question as to whether or not Bushong's and or other families we are related to owned slaves, and yes they did. I only had time to do the spelling Bushong today. In 1850, the Slave Schedule lists the following: Monroe Co. KY Henry Bushong - 1 F age 70 Black Henry Bushong, Jr. 1 M age 16 Black, 1 F age 3 Black Sulllivan Col TN, Div. 1 George Bushong, 1 M age 45, Black, 1 M age 33 Black District 58 Shenandoah Co., Va Jacob Bushong, 1 F age 74 Black, 1 F age 14, Mulatto Dist. 2, Shenandoah Co. Va Isaac A. Bushong - 1 M 40 Black 1860 Slave Schedule Monroe Co. KY Geoge Bushong in Trust for Minor Heirs, 3 M, ages 48, 54, 50 Black District 4, Sullivan Co. TN Mary E. Bushong, 3 F, 28, 16, 10; 6 Males Mt Jackson Shenandoah Co. va Jacob Bushong - M age 27, F age 24, Mulatto, M age 3, Mulatto Roanoake VA Jane Bushong - F, age 22, M age 3 Judy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Have you looked in Wood County, West Virginia? I suspect that may be where this article refers as there is also a Murphytown there and is much closer to Pittsburgh than Wood County, Ohio is. ________________________________ From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:42 PM Subject: [BOSCHONG] Oil on Bushon land in Wood County, Ohio - 1899 Boschong Subscribers, How many of you knew that not only did Pennsylvania produce a lot of coal, gas and steel, but oil. My Uncle Casey worked for Kendall Oil in Pennsylvania. And they also drilled for oil in Ohio. The reference to Wood County and Murphytown would have to be Ohio since there isn't a town or county by those names in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure which Bushon farm this would be on in Ohio as there were a lot of them there. Maybe someone knows? --------------------- The Titusville Herald Titusville, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 5 April 1899 Page 3, Column 3 LATE OIL NEWS ----------------------- NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST A Good Deep-Sand Well near String town. Pittsburg, 4 April -- (Special) -- In the deep sand territory near Stringtown, Tyler county, the South Penn Oil company has drilled in its No. 2 on the P. G. Wright farm and has a good producer. The well made five barrels the first 18 hours and is still drilling/ In the same district the South Penn Oil company has shot its No. 14, F. R. Ball and increased its production to 160 barrels a day.   The wildcat on the Garner farm, north of Proctor, Wetzel county, has been drilled through the Big Injun and is a duster in that formation: it will probably be drilled to the Gordon.   Southwest of the Murphytown development in Wood county, Barnsdall & Co. have drilled in a test well on the BUSHON farm and have a 20 barrel producer. The location is slightly in advance of developments and gives sufficient room for several locations in the vicinity of the new strike.   Operations in the Murphytown district have been very quiet for several months, that end of the extension having been very thoroughly drilled over. Both the Ogdin and Hendershot pools have very few locations left and no hope of extending either in any direction. -------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Here is the link to the BOSCHONG Archives. It is searchable. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/BOSCHONG Gloria Neiger Bushong

Oops, Well that certainly didn't come out right did it? I apologize for that too quick response. May I suggest that anyone who is interested in the Bushong slaves, do a search of the BOSCHONG Archives with the word slave and slaves to see how many documents I have put on the List already concerning slaves. I have worked very hard to provide a lot of information to this List. It would be appreciated if we could cover some new ground or a topic that someone is stuck on. There certainly are plenty of those. Like Elizabeth Bushon in 1760 or the unidentified Bushongs in Ohio or why there aren't any obits for some of the early Bushongs or even a mention of them in newspapers. Or why there aren't any early chancery records or orphan court records available in Pennsylvania for Bushongs. :) Or where some of the early Bushong land was physically located in reference to today. Since you live in Pennsylvania Judy, I would think you would know where all this land that I transcribed the Deeds for is actually located today. That would really be a big help since then we could use Google earth to see them for ourselves. Thanks, Gloria ---------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Judy, That was covered on the List a long time ago. :) Thanks, Gloria -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: jacassidy22 <jacassidy22@verizon.net> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:12 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. There is always that question as to whether or not Bushong's and or other families we are related to owned slaves, and yes they did. I only had time to do the spelling Bushong today. In 1850, the Slave Schedule lists the following: Monroe Co. KY Henry Bushong - 1 F age 70 Black Henry Bushong, Jr. 1 M age 16 Black, 1 F age 3 Black Sulllivan Col TN, Div. 1 George Bushong, 1 M age 45, Black, 1 M age 33 Black District 58 Shenandoah Co., Va Jacob Bushong, 1 F age 74 Black, 1 F age 14, Mulatto Dist. 2, Shenandoah Co. Va Isaac A. Bushong - 1 M 40 Black 1860 Slave Schedule Monroe Co. KY Geoge Bushong in Trust for Minor Heirs, 3 M, ages 48, 54, 50 Black District 4, Sullivan Co. TN Mary E. Bushong, 3 F, 28, 16, 10; 6 Males Mt Jackson Shenandoah Co. va Jacob Bushong - M age 27, F age 24, Mulatto, M age 3, Mulatto Roanoake VA Jane Bushong - F, age 22, M age 3 Judy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Judy, That was covered on the List a long time ago. :) Thanks, Gloria -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: jacassidy22 <jacassidy22@verizon.net> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:12 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. There is always that question as to whether or not Bushong's and or other families we are related to owned slaves, and yes they did. I only had time to do the spelling Bushong today. In 1850, the Slave Schedule lists the following: Monroe Co. KY Henry Bushong - 1 F age 70 Black Henry Bushong, Jr. 1 M age 16 Black, 1 F age 3 Black Sulllivan Col TN, Div. 1 George Bushong, 1 M age 45, Black, 1 M age 33 Black District 58 Shenandoah Co., Va Jacob Bushong, 1 F age 74 Black, 1 F age 14, Mulatto Dist. 2, Shenandoah Co. Va Isaac A. Bushong - 1 M 40 Black 1860 Slave Schedule Monroe Co. KY Geoge Bushong in Trust for Minor Heirs, 3 M, ages 48, 54, 50 Black District 4, Sullivan Co. TN Mary E. Bushong, 3 F, 28, 16, 10; 6 Males Mt Jackson Shenandoah Co. va Jacob Bushong - M age 27, F age 24, Mulatto, M age 3, Mulatto Roanoake VA Jane Bushong - F, age 22, M age 3 Judy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Boschong Subscribers, I highly recommend for you newbies and anyone else that is not aware of this that there are two website where you will get an excellent look at the detailed court system that was in place in Virginia very early on. If you are interested in a particular surname, both sites are indexed and searchable. Virginians were a very litigious group and the court system was very strict and rigid in certain areas. Some of the chancery suits are fascinating. On the site with Chalkley's abstracts there are no Bushongs listed except the mysterious Elizabeth Bushon of 1760 who we posted about long ago. There is a lot on the Bosangs however. Lynn Chalkley extracted these early records from 1745 - 1800. However, there are some records that were missed and these are available at the Rockingham County Public Library. Chalkley did the highlights. As you read them, you will see how many times, when the wife married during the Probate of her deceased husband, if she remarried, it was referred to with her new name in some way. You'll see when you read some of them. The other site is the State Archives at Richmond, Virginia. The Chancery Record for the entire state are being scanned and many of them are already available on-line, particularly those counties where Bushongs lived and there are bunches of them. That is where I got a lot of the Chancery that I put on the List already. I sat and hand wrote out every page posted because printing them at that time was not perfected. I think they do have some of the bugs out of the system now. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res AND http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/ Have fun and learn! Gloria Neiger Bushong

Thanks April for sharing this. I missed it. My condolences to the family. Gloria -----Original Message----- From: Legler, April A. <aalegler@indiana.edu> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 4:54 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Another Bushong death China B Bushong Livingston, 85 years old, of Willard , Missouri, died March 19, 2013. She leaves behind her husband, Doran Livingston, two children, Jerry and Sheila, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was the daughter of Corbett Bushong and Lyda Click Bushong. Corbett was the son of David Newton Bushong and Clarissa Amyx Bushong. David was the son of Jacob Hamilton Bushong and Susan West Bryant Bushong. "Hamp" was the son of John Andrew Bushong and Ferraby White Bushong. John Andrew was the son of George Wasington Bushong and Martha Davis Bushong. China was my mother's first cousin. April Legler aalegler@indiana.edu<mailto:aalegler@indiana.edu> 812-876-9951 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

There is always that question as to whether or not Bushong's and or other families we are related to owned slaves, and yes they did. I only had time to do the spelling Bushong today. In 1850, the Slave Schedule lists the following: Monroe Co. KY Henry Bushong - 1 F age 70 Black Henry Bushong, Jr. 1 M age 16 Black, 1 F age 3 Black Sulllivan Col TN, Div. 1 George Bushong, 1 M age 45, Black, 1 M age 33 Black District 58 Shenandoah Co., Va Jacob Bushong, 1 F age 74 Black, 1 F age 14, Mulatto Dist. 2, Shenandoah Co. Va Isaac A. Bushong - 1 M 40 Black 1860 Slave Schedule Monroe Co. KY Geoge Bushong in Trust for Minor Heirs, 3 M, ages 48, 54, 50 Black District 4, Sullivan Co. TN Mary E. Bushong, 3 F, 28, 16, 10; 6 Males Mt Jackson Shenandoah Co. va Jacob Bushong - M age 27, F age 24, Mulatto, M age 3, Mulatto Roanoake VA Jane Bushong - F, age 22, M age 3 Judy

  Gloria I like them all, but since I have two grandchildren living in Reading, Pa. I like that one. Noel Eugene (Boschung) Bushong         P.S. I'm surprised that no one has caught my spelling of (BOSCHUNG) and not BOSCHONG. Gloria can you elaborate more on the spelling. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Oops, Well that certainly didn't come out right did it? I apologize for that too quick response. May I suggest that anyone who is interested in the Bushong slaves, do a search of the BOSCHONG Archives with the word slave and slaves to see how many documents I have put on the List already concerning slaves. I have worked very hard to provide a lot of information to this List. It would be appreciated if we could cover some new ground or a topic that someone is stuck on. There certainly are plenty of those. Like Elizabeth Bushon in 1760 or the unidentified Bushongs in Ohio or why there aren't any obits for some of the early Bushongs or even a mention of them in newspapers. Or why there aren't any early chancery records or orphan court records available in Pennsylvania for Bushongs. :) Or where some of the early Bushong land was physically located in reference to today. Since you live in Pennsylvania Judy, I would think you would know where all this land that I transcribed the Deeds for is actually located today. That would really be a big help since then we could use Google earth to see them for ourselves. Thanks, Gloria ---------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did. Judy, That was covered on the List a long time ago. :) Thanks, Gloria -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: jacassidy22 <jacassidy22@verizon.net> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 6:12 pm Subject: [BOSCHONG] Did Our Bushong Ancestors own slaves? Well yes they did.     There is always that question as to whether or not Bushong's and or other   families we are related to owned slaves, and yes they did.  I only had time   to do the spelling Bushong today.   In 1850, the Slave Schedule lists the following:   Monroe Co. KY   Henry Bushong - 1 F age 70 Black   Henry Bushong, Jr. 1 M age 16 Black, 1 F age 3 Black   Sulllivan Col TN, Div. 1   George Bushong, 1 M age 45, Black, 1 M age 33 Black   District 58 Shenandoah Co., Va   Jacob Bushong, 1 F age 74 Black, 1 F age 14, Mulatto   Dist. 2, Shenandoah Co. Va   Isaac A. Bushong - 1 M 40 Black   1860 Slave Schedule   Monroe Co. KY   Geoge Bushong in Trust for Minor Heirs, 3 M, ages 48, 54, 50 Black   District 4, Sullivan Co. TN   Mary E. Bushong, 3 F, 28, 16, 10; 6 Males   Mt Jackson Shenandoah Co. va   Jacob Bushong - M age 27, F age 24, Mulatto, M age 3, Mulatto   Roanoake VA   Jane Bushong - F, age 22, M age 3   Judy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

  Gloria I have enjoy what is being taught to us newbies please keep it up.  Its like being reborn again with new ways to research, an I think this is a better method than I suggested.    I just don't know when I will fine time to try these ideas because of all of the Postings.  I'm glad I live on the West Coast it gives me time too catch up, with spring fever an all.      Noel Eugene (Boschung) Bushong ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:13 PM Subject: [BOSCHONG] A glimspe of life in early Virginia and the way the Courts worked Boschong Subscribers, I highly recommend for you newbies and anyone else that is not aware of this that there are two website where you will get an excellent look at the detailed court system that was in place in Virginia very early on. If you are interested in a particular surname, both sites are indexed and searchable. Virginians were a very litigious group and the court system was very strict and rigid in certain areas. Some of the chancery suits are fascinating. On the site with Chalkley's abstracts there are no Bushongs listed except the mysterious Elizabeth Bushon of 1760 who we posted about long ago. There is a lot on the Bosangs however. Lynn Chalkley extracted these early records from 1745 - 1800. However, there are some records that were missed and these are available at the Rockingham County Public Library. Chalkley did the highlights. As you read them, you will see how many times, when the wife married during the Probate of her deceased husband, if she remarried, it was referred to with her new name in some way. You'll see when you read some of them. The other site is the State Archives at Richmond, Virginia. The Chancery Record for the entire state are being scanned and many of them are already available on-line, particularly those counties where Bushongs lived and there are bunches of them. That is where I got a lot of the Chancery that I put on the List already. I sat and hand wrote out every page posted because printing them at that time was not perfected. I think they do have some of the bugs out of the system now. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res AND http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/ Have fun and learn! Gloria Neiger Bushong ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wonder whose family tree we can hang this branch on? Possibly Charles and Margaret Bushon's as they did have a son named Andrew born about 1850. ------------------------- The Indiana Weekly Messenger Indiana, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 14 November 1906 Page 1, Column 5 THIRD CHARGE OF EXTORTION Constable D. J. Grubb, of New Florence, has had a third charge of extortion entered against him. When Andy Bushon was taken to Greensburg to answer the charge of illegal liquor selling he made information alleging that at various times he had given Grubbs $22 for official protection. -------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong

Boschong Subscribers, Here is another old letter sent to Benjamin Franklin "Frank" John Bushong, s/o Jacob Bushong and Sarah Strickler from R. S. Cooley. At this point in time, Frank was in Belle Prairie, Fillmore County, Nebraska and R. S. Cooley was in Stoughton, Nebraska and no longer exists. ------------------- See BOSCHONG Post for 17 January 2005. ----------------------- From: Stoughton, Nebraska 15 January 1881 Dear Frank I received your letter a day or two ago. Was very glad to hear from you. I got a letter from Frank Hoffart {Hoffard} at the same time I got yours. He is back in Arcadia {Iowa} now. he was out here awhile he staid at our house a week and then went back. I guess he expected to see his cousin but I told him I thought she was down with you {In Belle Prairie, Fillmore Co. Nebraska} so he did not go down there. I hope to see you out here in the spring. The weather is pretty cold here this winter but not near as much snow as I hear you have down in Fillmore. We have had several rains this winter which was never seen before the ground is all covered over with ice now and has been for 2 or 3 weeks. Write soon and I will answer any questions you may ask and will be glad to do it. I am Yours truly R. S. Cooley --------------------------- Transcribed and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong

Boschong Subscribers, I have been so blessed to have a collection of old letters and other memorabilia from the Battlefield family that was stored in the attic of the Bushong home. Here is another one of the old family letters. See posts for January 2005 and February 2010 for some further information on Sarah Caroline "Carrie" Bushong who married Lewis Franklin Hupp. She is the daughter of Anderson Bushong and wife Elizabeth Swartz and granddaughter of Jacob Bushong and Sarah Strickler (Grandmother in this letter) -------------------- To Unkle Frank - (Benjamin Franklin John Bushong in Nebraska) From: New Market, Va. 13 January 1888 Dear Unkle, Grandmother has requested me to answer your kind and most interesting letter which she received not long since. She would be able to write to you herself if it wasn't for nervousness. She certainly is exceeding spritely for one of her age. Can step about as brisk as any of us. Very seldom hear her complain. She seemed so glad to receive a letter from you and I know it would do her so much good to meet with you once more. We would all enjoy seeing you so much and I think you right to pay us a visit, on Your Mothers account. If no one else, as she is now in her 91st year and her hands are very seldom idle. She does a great deal of knitting now for several weeks, she has been cutting and { ------. ---- One page is missing} so to father some time ago. Perhaps you have by this time. Well I haven't told you any thing about our Winter. So far we have had a right mild one. With the exception of a few cold naps, only lasting two and three days at a time. The coldest one was between Christmas and New Year. Filled our Icehouse last day of the year. Have had several light snows, had a light one last night and has mostly disappeared again. Grain fields are looking more prosperous than they did last year this time. The last crop was hardly a half a one in most places. Do you raise fowls. Our chickens are paying us real well this Winter on Eggs, 20 cents per dozen. I shall now draw my scribbling to a close for this time by saying this leaves us all well. Hoping when these few lines come to hand they may find you enjoying the same great blessing. Let us hear from you again soon. Please excuse all imperfections. The family write with me in sending love and best wishes to you. >From your Niece Carrie S. Bushong To Unkle Frank. ------------------- Transcribed from original letter by Gloria Neiger Bushong

The Germans, Swiss and others who traveled to America would never have been able to afford the fare of the ships travel from Germany to American if it wasn't for being indentured. The person who "purchased" their labor paid the ships Captain for their passage, it was the only way they could come and they knew this before they ever left Germany. When they had served their time, they received a suit of new clothes and some money. A good 3/4th of the German immigrants to American were indentured. Some of their employers were kind, others not so much. Their collateral was themselves. My Loch family was indentured, one working for 14 years to pay his parents fare as they were too old to do so. Many families were separated at this time, but managed to reunite at a later date. They did not all remain in the Philadelphia area, some were sent to NY, NJ, VA, MD, where ever the person who purchased their labor and paid their fare was from. While it wasn't slavery, it at least had an ending date and once they served their time, they were free to move about the country. Judy On 03/19/13, Russell Bushong<chochoruss@aol.com> wrote: Of course, I never meant for any of this to be a personal disagreement with Gloria at all. I am not interested in that, only history and genealogy. You are so right, we need to keep the personal out of the discussion. I am delighted that you have enjoyed the week and so perhaps it is time to be onto an other discussion. As mentioned, I descend from Andreas and then George, his son, so am not really up on other lines of this family, especially the Lancaster group. I am very familiar as to where they lived, however, as well as some of those in other states. The U. of PA I believe is responsible for this publication and I know that you will all enjoy it because your ancestors experience the same traveling conditions, plus it describes the portion of the journey before they get to the Ocean. Those references to sales of passengers, were those who paid the ships fare's for various passengers who were then "sold" and became Indentured Servants, as so many of our ancester's were.. [1]http://archive.org/details/gottlichmittelbe01mitt Gottlich Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754, containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country (1898) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Judy. Interesting read. Guess nothing really has changed from 1750 to present day. We still have white slavery, people living in sin, children being born out of wedlock, and immigrants being taken advantage of by those who would profit be it monetary or politically. I have an account of one of my Neiger relations that kept a journal of his travels from Switzerland to America, who immigrated here in 1860 and the ship conditions were no better then 110 years before in 1750. Imagine that. Gloria ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://archive.org/details/gottlichmittelbe01mitt 2. mailto:BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com

Boschong Subscribers, Long ago at one of the Bushong Reunions, Richard Bushong gave me a bunch of material on his family. The Dress family is related to Richard and attended some of our first Bushong Reunions also. I am a great admirer of Former President Dwight David Eisenhower and, of course, his Former Vice President was Richard Milhous Nixon who went on to be President. President Nixon was my fourth cousin through my Wadsworth lineage. --------------------- MISS DRESS GUEST AT DINNER PARTY GIVEN BY LT. COL. MRS. EISENHOWER Miss Mary Alice Dress, a Sophomore at Gettysburg College, and the granddaughter of Mrs. Frank L. Bushong, South Mildred Street had the novel experience of being a guest at a dinner party given by Lt. Col. and Mrs. John Eisenhower at the Eisenhower farm near Gettysburg last Saturday evening. Miss Dress's mother, the former Sarah Bushong, and Mrs. Barbara Eisenhower were both members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The occasion was a buffet dinner and dance and the guests were shown a number of paintings done by the President, as well as other interesting things during the course of the evening. The Dresses now reside in suburban Baltimore. --------------------- Furnished by Richard Bushong and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong Copyrighted 9 March 2013

Of course, I never meant for any of this to be a personal disagreement with Gloria at all. I am not interested in that, only history and genealogy. You are so right, we need to keep the personal out of the discussion. I am delighted that you have enjoyed the week and so perhaps it is time to be onto an other discussion. As mentioned, I descend from Andreas and then George, his son, so am not really up on other lines of this family, especially the Lancaster group. I am very familiar as to where they lived, however, as well as some of those in other states. The U. of PA I believe is responsible for this publication and I know that you will all enjoy it because your ancestors experience the same traveling conditions, plus it describes the portion of the journey before they get to the Ocean. Those references to sales of passengers, were those who paid the ships fare's for various passengers who were then "sold" and became Indentured Servants, as so many of our ancester's were.. http://archive.org/details/gottlichmittelbe01mitt Gottlich Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754, containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country (1898) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Judy. Interesting read. Guess nothing really has changed from 1750 to present day. We still have white slavery, people living in sin, children being born out of wedlock, and immigrants being taken advantage of by those who would profit be it monetary or politically. I have an account of one of my Neiger relations that kept a journal of his travels from Switzerland to America, who immigrated here in 1860 and the ship conditions were no better then 110 years before in 1750. Imagine that. Gloria

Judy, I am glad that you are willing to stay on the List. I believe we both may learn something from each other and the List may learn new stuff too. No matter how much we know, there is always something new to be learned. That's why I go to seminars -- to be refreshed and learn new stuff. Google Earth research is really something. Ahh Yes, that was a long time ago. Something bad happened to me, but something good came out of it when I was able to create this List and share the documents for everyone to see. I could not believe how many had never seen any of the original documents or even a transcription of them. I know there are still documents out there that I have missed. I don't like abstracts. I like the entire document as you miss so much by abstracts. Abstracts are a good starting point and that is all. In the last years of Carol's life, we actually corresponded back and forth and she realized that she might have made a few mistakes with the early Bushongs in Pennsylvania. However she did not want to spoil her image since she had certified it all, so she would never come out publicly. I kept all of her e-mails and letters and have put a few excepts on the List. I was very close to another good researcher, Johnita Malone and really miss her. She would have had some great input to this List. I'm sure she is smiling. Upward and Onward with researching! Gloria Neiger Bushong ---------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: jacassidy22 <jacassidy22@verizon.net> To: boschong <boschong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 3:19 pm Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Sharing differing opinions on research, Fabrication, DNA test & Vigo Co. Probate I was good friends with Carol Wilsey Bell for many years Gloria and am aware of the situation which was a long time ago. I am delighted that you feel the information which I have been providing is useful and I will continue to do so. thanks Judy

Of course, I never meant for any of this to be a personal disagreement with Gloria at all. I am not interested in that, only history and genealogy. You are so right, we need to keep the personal out of the discussion. I am delighted that you have enjoyed the week and so perhaps it is time to be onto an other discussion. As mentioned, I descend from Andreas and then George, his son, so am not really up on other lines of this family, especially the Lancaster group. I am very familiar as to where they lived, however, as well as some of those in other states. The U. of PA I believe is responsible for this publication and I know that you will all enjoy it because your ancestors experience the same traveling conditions, plus it describes the portion of the journey before they get to the Ocean. Those references to sales of passengers, were those who paid the ships fare's for various passengers who were then "sold" and became Indentured Servants, as so many of our ancester's were.. http://archive.org/details/gottlichmittelbe01mitt Gottlich Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754, containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country (1898) On 03/19/13, [1]nwbushong@frontiernet.net<[2]nwbushong@frontiernet.net> wrote: This is for Gloria and Judy-- Please, Please this has been an excellent debate and I'm sure when words are printed it can be taken in the wrong way OR understand why it was printed that way. Both of you have meant well in your researches, but please don't ruin a good relationship and we people that are new at this are enjoying whats going on. This has been one of the best weeks I think this List has had in a long, long time. Both of you are comparing notes and as Judy would say "Thinking Out Of The Box" gives inspiration. Take a break and walk-a-way from this for awhile. Go on to something else, you never know a person out their may have a answer. PLEASE!!! NOEL EUGENE(BOSCHUNG)BUSHONG ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [3]BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:nwbushong@frontiernet.net 2. mailto:nwbushong@frontiernet.net 3. mailto:BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com