lol...yeah, their name has been "Bushwhacked"!!! In a message dated 2/2/2011 7:48:11 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Good Morning Boschong Subscribers, The Bushong/Bosang family is one gigantic jigsaw puzzle. Some day we will see how all of the Bushong/Bosang families tie together as we find each puzzle piece and put them in their place. There will be at some point a big "ah ha" moment. Some time ago, we posted about Jacob Bushong, who married Catharine Cline of Augusta County, Virginia. Their daughter Mary Ann Bushong married William "David" Stover. Jacob Bushong was the son of Peter Bushong and Barbara Wenger. We posted Peter Bushong's Will to the List 3 March 2006. We came across this history of Grant County and thought it might be of interest since this is the same family and another piece of the big puzzle. Check the BOSCHONG Archives for posts May 2005, March 2006, April 2007, May 2007, March 2009, March 2010 and June 2010. NOTE: The Bushong name in this history was badly misspelled as Bushyoung but we are 100% sure that this was definitely Mary Ann Bushong, d/o Jacob Bushong and Catharine Cline and Granddaughter of Peter Bushong and Barbara Wenger. ---------------------- THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF GRANT COUNTY INDIANA 1812 - 1912, Volume 2 Rolland Lewis Whitson, John Putnam Campbell, Edgar Louis Goldthwait Lewis Publishing Company - 1914 Pages 945 - 946 WILLIAM PAUL STOVER On section twenty-five of Jefferson township is the Stover homestead, a farm under the management of that family for upwards of forty years, the present proprietor being William Paul Stover, a young and progressive agriculturist, who succeeded his father in the management of the estate, and has the reputation in the neighborhood of being a "live wire" and in every way a most progressive citizen. He has a beautiful home, farm buildings which above the average of even Grant county and has a large acreage of regular farm crops and raises a number of high grade cattle and hogs and other live stock. His grandfather, WILLIAM DAVID STOVER, was born in Virginia, and of Virginia parentage, though of German ancestry. He married a Miss Bushyoung {MARY ANN BUSHONG}, born in Virginia, and of the same lineage as her husband. Before they came west, all of their five children were born. They are as follows: John and Catharine, both of whom married and had children and both now are deceased, Mary, who died in the spring of 1912 and left children; Samuel G.; David the youngest of the family who is now a farmer in Blackford county and has a family of five daughters. Samuel G. Stover, father of W. P. Stover, was born in Roanoke county, Virginia on Christmas day 1843. When he was seventeen years old his parents came to Indiana, and in 1861 settled in Henry county. Both his parents died in Henry county, his father when past eighty years of age and his mother some twenty years before. They were substantial farming people, and devout members of the united Brethren church. Samuel G. Stover after he became of age took up his independent career in Delaware county, where he met and married Miss M. Emma Shirey, who was born in this state. After four or five yeas on a Delaware county farm, they came in 1876 to Grant county and bought one hundred and sixty acres in section twenty-five of Jefferson township. Later their enterprise and careful management enabled them to increase their acreage by the purchase of eighty acres more, and there Samuel Stover labored and lived out the useful years of his existence until his death on 1 March 1912. He had his farm well improved and in every direction on the old homestead can still be seen the evidence of his thrift and diligence. His wife died on the same farm. 28 July 1909. She was born in Virginia in 1845, and when twelve years of age accompanied her parents to Delaware county. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Stover were active in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was a Republican in politics. Their children were: CORA who died at the age of six months; one that died in infancy; MARION who also died in infancy; FLORENCE, wife of William J. Williams, a farmer in Blackford county and they had two children Samuel M. and Robert Paul; PEARL who died 3 February 1910 at the age of 24, was unmarried and was a graduate of the University of Indiana at Bloomington; WILLIAM PAUL STOVER, the youngest of the children was born on the home farm in Jefferson township, 9 February 1890. Though only a few yeas past his majority he has already made a record of accomplishment such as many older men would envy. With the class of 1908 he graduated from the Upland high school and has since been attending strictly to business as a farmer. since coming into possession of the estate he has erected one of the finest barns in Jefferson township, a large and commodious structure of modern style as to sanitation and convenience, and built on ground dimensions of seventy by thirty-feet, with a cow barn sixteen by fifty feet. A comfortable old farm residence was erected by his father twenty-seven years ago, and still affords the comforts of a good home. Mr. Stover was married in Grant county in 1912 to Miss Nettie Roberds, who was born in Blackford county 1 Mary 1886, and was educated in the public schools. Her parents were Joseph A. and Anna Eliza (Wilson) Roberds. Anna Eliza Wilson was a daughter of Moses Wilson. The Roberds family live on a farm in Licking township of Blackford county and are prosperous and well to do people. Mr. and Mrs. Stover have no children and are popular among the younger members of Jefferson township in social circles. They attend the Pleasant Grove Methodist church. ------------------------ Researched and Submitted 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