Gloria, thanks for all your hard work and good thinking. I hope you are feeling much better. Should you be under doctor's care? Is someone there to help you? Cheers to you, Beverley Bushong Getzen On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Evening Boschong Subscribers, I have been under the weather the past > two days and spent most of today in bed but am feeling better for the > moment. It seems to come and go in spells. While lying in bed, I got to > thinking > about the Bushong, Neidig and Stover connections and something suddenly > hit me like a ton of bricks. > > Looking at the facts about David Bosang of Augusta County, VA, (BOSCHONG > Archives January 2005) Jacob Bushong and Juliana Weigel of Augusta County, > VA, Jacob Bushong and Eve Bossert and John Bushong and Barbara Kreighbaum > of > Stark County, there are some very striking coincidences. Or are they just > coincidences? We think not. > > We think Strasburg, VA where Jacob Bushong and Eve Bossert were married is > the key to a very complex family puzzle involving the Bosangs/Bushongs and > the Stovers. That was the place where Peter Stover founded Stovertown. > Peter Stover was married to Frainey Funk which should be a familiar couple > to > this List since they are the couple who was involved with several Deeds > with David Bosang. When Peter Stover died in 1799 there were eight > children > named in his Will. We believe that there were at least nine children, > possibly more, and those not named in the Will were already dead. One of > his > children, we believe, was the father of Anna Stover, the wife of John > Bushong > and the reason he was not named in the Will of his father, is because he > was > dead before John Bushong married Anna Stover. If you remember correctly > Anna Stover had a guardian named Jacob Unger when she married. We believe > this > Jacob was probably married to one of the Stover girls who were sisters of > Anna's father which would make that Jacob Unger an Uncle to Anna Stover by > marriage. > > Some researchers have said that Anna Stover's parents were David Stover and > Elizabeth Strickler and we know that Stover and Strickler are very > prominent names in the Valley of Virginia. Check the BOSCHONG Archives for > July > 2009 for all of the Stover marriages. > > John Bushong to Anna Stover > Guardian Jacob Unger > 1 March 1805 > > Some of the group of Bushongs from Pennsylvania, passing through Virginia > to Ohio, settling in Stark and Carroll County, Ohio married into the > Stover > and Niedig families also from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio. Some were > immigrants. > > > Look at the names on the passenger list below which are very familiar to > this Bushong family. Check back on my posts of January 2005 about the > Bushong who became a Bosang. > > David Bosang Arrived in Port of Philadelphia aboard the ship "Two > Brothers" > from the Port of Rotterdam having stopped at Port of Portsmouth for > supplies. > Name shown on passenger list A, B, and C is shown as: > > Teobalt Bossong/Theobald (X) Bossong/Debalt(X)Bosseng > > He signed the Oath of Allegiance to the King of England with his mark (X). > The ship's captain was Thomas Arnot. > > (Our added research) Among the other passengers on the ship were: > > Mattheis Dischong {Bushong} > William Dischong {Bushong} > John Frederick Schuy {Later as Shue/Shoe} > Johann Peter Hahn {Also Haun} > Johannes Neydig {Neidig} > Johannes Schey {Shue/Shoe} > Jacob Haun > > David Bosang made his way from the Port of Philadelphia to the > York/Lancaster County PA area where he married Barbara Suess. He has a son > named John > who took out a license for an ordinary while in York County who later > shows > up in Staunton, again running an ordinary. He also has a daughter named > Margaret. They make their way down to Virginia with evidence of them in > the > Strasburg, Frederick County, Virginia area with several Deeds and then down > to Staunton, Augusta County area where David Bosang died leaving a Will > under the name of David Bosang. He married twice. Once in Europe (wife's > name > unknown)with how knows how many children and then second in Lancaster > County, PA when he married in Lancaster County, PA and states that he is a > widower. His wife was a widow when he married her. > > When the family is living in Frederick County, Virginia Peter and Frainy > STOVER execute a Deed to David Bosang for a lot in STRASBURG misspelling > the > name badly. But it is him. Since this is THE Strasburg, where Jacob > Bushong and Eve Bossert were married, don't you find this a little more > then a > coincidence???? > > 1762 JULY 26 > ------------ > Frederick County Virginia Deed Book 7, Page 281 > Deed from Peter and Frainey STOVER to Devault Busing {DAVID > BOSANG/BUSHONG} 1/2 of Lot #44 in town of STRASBURG. Recorded 4 August > 1762 > > 1763 JANUARY 10 > --------------- > Frederick County Virginia Deed Book 8, pages 208-211 > Deed from Peter STOVER and wife Frainey to Devault Businger,{David Bosang} > all of Frederick Co. 1/2 acre of Lot #25 in town of STRASBURG. Recorded 1 > March 1763 > --------------- > Just another little piece of the Bushong puzzle that will eventually all > come together one day. > ---------------- > Researched by Gloria Bushong > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Beverley Getzen Retired, US Army Corps of Engineers PO Box 202 Wadesboro, NC 28170-0202 704-694-7022 "There are times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time we fail to protest." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate.