See Boschong Archives for February 2012, May 2012 and many more for information on this family lineage. Several family members have attended past Bushong Reunions. --------------- The Washington Post Washington DC Friday, 12 October 2012 MILDRED BUSHONG ESTES Mildred Bushong Estes was born in Washington, D. C. on 2 December 1927, and died 9 October 2012. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Thomas R. Estes. They moved to South Venice in 1983. She was preceded in death by her mother, Edna Jenkins Bushong; father, William A. Bushong and sister, Helen Bushong Brooks. She is also survived by her son Thomas R. Estes, Jr., his wife Ingrid McLain Estes of McLean, Virginia, her grandson Alexander McLain Estes of Arlington, Virginia and granddaughter, Katharine Jane Estes of New York City, her sister Lois Bushong Brashear of Atlanta, Georgia, her brother John Albert Bushong of Arlington, Virginia and many nieces and nephews. She taught in public schools in Arlington and Fairfax Counties for 30 years before retiring in 1980. She will be remembered by her numerous former students as a teacher who passed along her own love of learning in ways that made school fun. She will be interred privately at a later date in Union Cemetery in Leesburg, Virginia. --------------- LINEAGE: John Bushong and Elizabeth Sprinckle John Bushong and Elizabeth Windle John Bushong and Magdalena Bauserman William Bushong and Rachel Clem Abraham Bushong and Adelaide Taylor John Albert Bushong and Pearl Rake William A. Bushong and Edna Jenkins Mildred E. Bushong and Thomas R. Estes -------------- 1870 Federal Census: Virginia Johnston District, Shenandoah County Enumerated 23 August 1870 Page 689B Lines 1 - 7, HH 121/103 William Bushong 66/Male/White/Farmer/$1100-$400/VA Rachel Bushong 57/Female/White/KeepsHouse/VA Abraham Bushong 35/Male/White/DoesFarmWork/VA Adalaide Bushong 33/Female/White/DoesHouseWork/VA Minnie B. Bushong 4/Female/White/VA Charles E. Bushong 3/Male/White/VA JOHN A. BUSHONG 1/Male/White/VA --------------- 1880 Federal Census: Virginia South River District, Warren County Enumerated 4 June 1880 Page 372A Lines 29-35, HH 53/53 Abraham Bushong Head/45/Male/Farmer/Married/VA/VA/VA Adalade Bushong Wife/43/Female/White/HouseKeeper/VA/VA/VA Minnie B. Bushong Dau/14/Female/White/AtSchool/VA/VA/VA Charles E. Bushong Son/12/Male/White/AtSchool/VA/VA/VA JOHN A. BUSHONG Son/Male/White/11/AtHome/VA/VA/VA William M. Bushong Son/Male/White/3/AtHome/VA/VA/VA {aka Virgil Silman Bushong} Rachel Bushong Mother/67/Female/White/Widowed/AtHome/VA/VA/VA --------------- 1900 Federal Census; Virginia South Ricer Magisterial District, ED 87, Warren County Enumerated 29 June 1900 Page 94B, Sheet 20 Lines 59-64, HH 360/360 Abraham Bushong Head/65/Male/White/March1836/Married36years/Farmer/VA/VA/VA Ada V. Bushong Wife/62/Female/White/June1837/5children4living/VA/VA/VA Minnie Bushong Dau/34/Female/White/Sept1865/Single/SchoolTeacher/VA/VA/VA Charles E. Bushong Son/32/Male/White/Aug1867/Single/SchoolTeacher/VA/VA/VA JOHN A. BUSHONG Son/31/Male/White/Oct1868/Single/FarmLaborer/VA/VA/VA Virgil S. Bushong Son/23/Male/White/Feb1877/Single/FarmLaborer/VA/VA/VA --------------------- Richmond Virginia Births William A. Bushong 30 September 1907 --------------------- 1910 Federal Census: Virginia Clay Ward, Independent City of Richmond John A. Bushong Head/Male/White/38/Married/VA/VA/VA Pearl Bushong Wife/Female/White/33/KY/KY/KY William A. Bushong Son/Male/White/3/VA -------------------- 1920 Federal Census: District of Columbia John A. Bushong Head/Male/White/50/VA Pearl Bushong Wife/Female/White/42/KY William Bushong Son/Male/White/12/DC Virgil Bushong Son/Male/White/9/DC --------------------- 1930 Federal Census: District of Columbia John A. Bushong Head/Male/White/61/VA/VA/VA Pearl J. Bushong Wife/Female/White/52/KY/KY/KY Virgil T. Bushong Son/Male/White/19/VA/VA/KY COULD NOT FIND THEIR SON WILLIAM A. BUSHONG IN THIS CENSUS. ---------------------- 1940 Federal Census: Virginia Arlington, ED 7-29, Arlington County Enumerated 10 April 1940 Page 566B, Sheet 4 Lines 52-57, HH 729 South Barton Street William A. Bushong Head/M/W/32/Married/HS1yr/SteamFitterPlumbing/BornVirginia Edna J. Bushong Wife/F/W/31/HSGrad/BornDC Mildred E. Bushong Dau/Female/White/12/BornDC Helen E. Bushong Dau/Female/White/10/BornDC Lois E. Bushong Dau/Female/White/6/BornDC John A. Bushong Son/Male/White/2/BornDC ------------------------ UNION CEMETERY Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia Doublestone JOHN A. BUSHONG 1868 - 1942 PEARL R. BUSHONG 1877 - 1955 ----------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong