GEORGE E. BUSHON Born: June 1851, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, Parentage Unknown Married:About 1876 Divorced: Between 1894 and 1900 Died: Unknown in Indiana? SARAH HUFFMAN Born: June 1858, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio Died: Unknown 8 CHILDREN: Alpha A. Bushon, Born about 1877 Daisy M. Bushon, Born about 1879 Sarah Louise Luevena Bushon, Born May 1884, married William E. S. Hill Fred Strickland Bushon, Born 5 November 1886 Wayman H. Bushon, Born April 1889 Catherine A. Bushon, Born April 1892 George F. Bushon, Born 23 September 1894 Unknown Bushon ------------------------ 1870 Federal Census: Could not find ------------------------- 1880 Federal Census: Ohio Liberty Township, ED 59, Clinton County Enumerated 14 June 1880 Page 102A Lines 20-23, HH 194/204 George Bushon Mulatto/Male/31/Married/Farmer/TN/TN/TN Sarah Bushon Mulatto/Female/22/Wife/KeepingHouse/OH/KY/KY Alpha A. Bushon Mulatto/Male/2/Son/OH/TN/OH Daisy M. Bushon Mulatto/Female/1/Dau/Scalded/OH/TN/OH {Scaled means she was burned by hot water} ------------------------- George Bushon and wife Sarah divorce between the time their last child was born in 1894 and the 1900 census. Sarah is found still living in Clinton County, Ohio but George Bushon has made his way to Indiana and is found working in a Hotel in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana. {See post for 28 March 2011 titled MORE ON THE AFRICIAN AMERICAN BUSHON'S IN OHIO} ------------------------------ 1900 Federal Census: Ohio Wilmington, Union Township, ED 71, Clinton County Enumerated 12 June 1900 Page 176B, Sheet 10 Lines 56-61, HH 236/255 College Street This is family of Sarah (Huffman) Bushon and George E. Bushon Sarah A. Bushon Head/Mulatto/F//June1858/41/Divorced/8children8living/OwnsMtgHm/OH/KY/KY Louise Bushon Dau/Black/Female/May1884/16/Servant/OH/TN/OH {Sarah Louise Lavena Bushon} Fred S. Bushon Son/Black/Male/Nov1886/13/AttendedSchool/OH/TN/OH Wayman H. Bushon Son/Black/Male/April1889/11/AttendedSchool/OH/TN/OH Catherine A. Bushon Dau/Black/Female/April1892/8/AttendedSchool/OH/TN/OH GEORGE F. BUSHON Son/Black/Male/Sept1894/5/OH/TN/OH ---------- GEORGE F. BUSHONG Born: 23 September 1894, Clinton County, Ohio {Death record states 1892 which is an error} Marital Status: Single Died: 4 August 1942, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio Burial: Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio ---------- 1910 Federal Census: Illinois Paris Township, Ward 1, ED 48, Edgar County Enumerated 23 April 1910 Page 153A, Sheet 8 Lines 18-20, HH 424/211/179 Harry West Head/Male/Black/49/Md10yrs/RentsHm/BarberBarberShop/KY/KY/KY Lettie West Wife/Female/Black/44/1children0children/OH/VA/KY GEORGE BUSHON Nephew/Male/Black/15/StudentAttendedSchool/OH/KY/OH ---------- 1920 Federal Census: Ohio Union Township, ED 128, Clinton County Enumerated 3 January 1920 Page 178A, Sheet 3 Lines 13-16, HH 112/50/56 South Mulberry Minnie Goode Head/OwnsHmFree/Female/Black/44/Single/KeepsBoarder/OH/US/US William J. Thompson Uncle/Male/Black/84/Widowed/US/US/US GEORGE BUSHON Boarder/Male/Black/24/Single/PorterBarberShop/OH/US/US Fred Bushon Boarder/Male/Black/34/Single/PorterBarberShop/OH/US/US -------- 1930 Federal Census: Ohio Probably living in Columbus, Ohio since this is where he died in 1942. The 1930 census has not been indexed. ------- Ohio Death Records County: Franklin County, Ohio City: Columbus Name: George Bushong Male, African American, Single Died: 4 August 1942 Born: 23 September 1892 Father: George E. Bushong, Born Tennessee Mother: Sarah Huffman, Born Ohio NOTE: His obituary appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on the 4th August 1942 on Page 2A and again on the 7th August 1942 on Page 6A. ----------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Bushong