Good Morning Boschong Subscribers, In our last posts we said that we had no idea when Joseph Sylvester Bushong died as the last census we could find on him was the 1880 census when he was living in Wirt County, West Virginia. We found this very interesting newspaper article in the Shenandoah Herald for 1908, that may or may not be this Joseph. To put this in perspective, there was no Joseph Bushong that lived in New Market or the surrounding area who had grown daughters during this era that we are aware of. If this is Joseph Sylvester Bushong, when this 1908 article was written, he must have lived there a short time. He would have been about 68 years old so this is not out of the realm of possibility. I looked back in Mattie's diaries to see if she made mention of this incident happening since she lived in New Market, knew her Bushong relatives that had lived there a long time and usually made mention of any exciting incidents. There was no mention. Here were her entries for that Saturday and a couple of days after. --------------------------- DIARIES OF MATTIE BUSHONG GOOD (Daughter of Anderson Bushong and Delilah Bowen) Saturday, September 12 (1908) - Clear and real warm. Uncle and I went to Harrisonburg this morning. Mama and Evla taken us to the depo and Mr. Rupps came to meet us. I ate dinner at Mrs. Eliza Goods. Sunday, September 13 - Clear. Nice day getting real dusty. We all drove out to the new school building to preaching this afternoon. Monday, September 14 - Some cloudy and real smokey all day. They are having a moon light picnic down at brother Jakes tonight. ------------------------------ The Shenandoah Herald Woodstock, Virginia Friday 18 September 1908 Page 3, Column 3 RUNAWAY AT NEW MARKET Saturday night an exciting runaway occurred in New Market, when a double team belonging to Mr. Joseph Bushong became frightened and ran off. In the carriage at the time were two of Mr. Bushong's daughters and a lady friend of the Misses Bushong. The terrified animals had not run far until the vehicle collided with a telephone pole, the carriage was upset, and the ladies thrown into the street. Friends quickly ran to their rescue and found that while all three bad been badly bruised, none had sustained any serious injury. The vehicle was badly damaged, but the horses were stopped after a short run and neither was hurt. -------------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Bushong