In a message dated 5/15/2011 5:39:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: 1930 Federal Census: Indiana Fort Wayne, Wayne Township, Ward 11, ED 2-49, Allen County Enumerated 2 April 1930 Page 70B, Sheet 1 Lines 62-64, HH 4017/17/17 James T. Bushong Head/RentsHm/M/W/52/MdAge28/ClerkRailroadOfc/ServedSpanishWar/OH/OH/OH Neva A. Bushong Wife/Female/White/48/MdAge24/OH/PA/OH W. Blair Bushong Son/Male/White/22/Single/DraftsmanElectricFactory/OH/OH/OH ------------------------------ James T. Bushong, as you can see from the above census served in the War With Spain called the Spanish- American War. The war was fought over Cuba, our neighbor 90 miles to the south of Key West, Florida. James T. Bushong served in Company H, 2nd OVI and in Company G, 6th Infantry, Bloomdale, Wood County, Ohio and was a Private. Serving in his unit also was Abram Cline from the 1900 census. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY Spain considered Cuba a province of Spain rather then a colony and there were many cruel atrocities on Cuban citizens reported to President William McKinley who was President. He tried diplomatically to resolve the problem between the citizens of Cuba and Spain to no avail.They wanted Spain out of their lives and there were many conflicts. Cuba was supposed to have independence from Spain on 1 January 1898 but 11 days after that date, riots broke out between soldiers from Spain and Cuban citizens. McKinley sent the MAINE in to look after American interests and citizens. On 15th of February there was an explosion that sank the MAINE. After an investigation with both sides declaring the other to blame, Spain declared war on the United States. It was short lived and the United States won. That is why for years we were friends with Cuba until Castro, a communist, came to power. I was born and raised in Miami, and I am still mad at John F. Kennedy for not helping the Cubans trying to free Cuba in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which by the way, was planned for months in the home of a Cuban doctor who lived behind my parents. The great island of Cuba of the past is certainly nothing like the slum of today with no free enterprise but Miami has benefited greatly from the refugees who fled. ------------------------------ Researched and Submitted by Gloria Bushong