Welcome to the List Glenn. It's always nice to have the pot stirred once in a while. LOL I have no argument with you about Jacob Bushong serving in the Revolutionary War as a private. There certainly is plenty of paperwork on that. But please don't slight the man Samuel Bushong who did exist even if there is no paperwork that you can find as that means nothing. --------------------- I just got off of the telephone with a professional genealogist named Alvie Davidson a few minutes ago who is well known in his field nationally and an expert in Revolutionary War Records. He is or was the SAR genealogist for the State of Florida and is on the National SAR Board and many other national genealogical boards . I asked his opinion on this controversy. His answers were rather interesting. He said: You have to remember that Washington was burned to the ground during the Revolution and not all of the records survived. That and the fact that the Archives had a fire many years later and there was a lot of water damage in the basement with the old records. He said: As far as Samuel Bushong not showing up in the Revolutionary War Pensions there were many who served in the war that never asked for a pension. Mainly because they had money and didn't need it. I say: Very few of the Bushongs who served asked for a pension. Jacob evidently was without income at the time he applied for a pension and needed the money so please don't use that fact of pension application or receiving a pension as a criteria for determining that a Samuel Bushong did not serve. He said: Tombstones back in those days were chisled out right in front of the relatives while they watched and then erected. If the name had been incorrect, a family member would have spoken up with the first incorrect S instead of J and had it corrected right then. I say: His tombstone was erected at the time of his death when he was buried in 1829. Since Jacob Bushong didn't die until 1830, don't you think that with the large family that Jacob had, that if the tombstone did indeed belong to your Jacob and was incorrect as to the name, that someone would have had it corrected or taken down? And why would they make two mistakes on a tombstone, the name and the date.....really. It was re-done by a relative in 1930 when it was beginning to wear down but as the newspaper article stated, it was still readable. I say: Samuel Bushong was on the DAR Ohio Roster until Carol W. Bell had it removed!!!!! Samuel Bushong also is noted in some very old newspapers articles which named him as Samuel Bushong. If it had been incorrect at that time of printing, they would have had a corrected printed in the next edition. That's what they did back then.......... I say: There were too many Bushongs named Samuel in the early ancestors for there not to be a Samuel Bushong before Jacob and if you would just think about it, didn't Jacob Bushong name a son Samuel? Where did that name come from if not from an older relative named Samuel. Don't let the lack of paperwork blind you to the simple facts. Gloria Bushong List Administrator

I guess you misunderstood me...Washington City burned during the War of 1812 when the British and French were in a big argument with each other and the US government got into it. The British torched Washington City and the capitol buildings. Alvie L. Davidson Lakeland, FL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BOSCHONG] Revolutionary War soldiers Welcome to the List Glenn. It's always nice to have the pot stirred once in a while. LOL I have no argument with you about Jacob Bushong serving in the Revolutionary War as a private. There certainly is plenty of paperwork on that. But please don't slight the man Samuel Bushong who did exist even if there is no paperwork that you can find as that means nothing. --------------------- I just got off of the telephone with a professional genealogist named Alvie Davidson a few minutes ago who is well known in his field nationally and an expert in Revolutionary War Records. He is or was the SAR genealogist for the State of Florida and is on the National SAR Board and many other national genealogical boards . I asked his opinion on this controversy. His answers were rather interesting. He said: You have to remember that Washington was burned to the ground during the Revolution and not all of the records survived. That and the fact that the Archives had a fire many years later and there was a lot of water damage in the basement with the old records. He said: As far as Samuel Bushong not showing up in the Revolutionary War Pensions there were many who served in the war that never asked for a pension. Mainly because they had money and didn't need it. I say: Very few of the Bushongs who served asked for a pension. Jacob evidently was without income at the time he applied for a pension and needed the money so please don't use that fact of pension application or receiving a pension as a criteria for determining that a Samuel Bushong did not serve. He said: Tombstones back in those days were chisled out right in front of the relatives while they watched and then erected. If the name had been incorrect, a family member would have spoken up with the first incorrect S instead of J and had it corrected right then. I say: His tombstone was erected at the time of his death when he was buried in 1829. Since Jacob Bushong didn't die until 1830, don't you think that with the large family that Jacob had, that if the tombstone did indeed belong to your Jacob and was incorrect as to the name, that someone would have had it corrected or taken down? And why would they make two mistakes on a tombstone, the name and the date.....really. It was re-done by a relative in 1930 when it was beginning to wear down but as the newspaper article stated, it was still readable. I say: Samuel Bushong was on the DAR Ohio Roster until Carol W. Bell had it removed!!!!! Samuel Bushong also is noted in some very old newspapers articles which named him as Samuel Bushong. If it had been incorrect at that time of printing, they would have had a corrected printed in the next edition. That's what they did back then.......... I say: There were too many Bushongs named Samuel in the early ancestors for there not to be a Samuel Bushong before Jacob and if you would just think about it, didn't Jacob Bushong name a son Samuel? Where did that name come from if not from an older relative named Samuel. Don't let the lack of paperwork blind you to the simple facts. Gloria Bushong List Administrator ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message