Boschong Subscribers, I have been told that I am incorrect in identifying Jacob Perry Bushong,, son of Jacob Bushong and Mary Parsons of the Bible record as the one serving in the 5th Regiment so I am putting this additional information on the List. -------------------- Sgt Jacob Bushong was the husband of Mary Headrick son of George Washington Bushong and Nancy Parker History of Kentucky, Volume 5 By William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter Jacob Bushong was born in the state of Mississippi, in 1838, but when a lad was taken by his father to Monroe County, where he received his education and was reared to manhood on his father's farm. In 1861, when the War between the States came on, he enlisted in the Fifth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, with which organization he served until the close of the struggle. He participated in numerous hard-fought engagements, including Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Stone River, and was promoted from private to sergeant, which rank he held during Sherman's March to the Sea. His military record was a splendid one and at the close of his service he returned to Monroe County and again engaged in farming, and also turned his attention to flour milling, in both of which vocations he achieved a success. His mill was located at the present site of Bushong, which community was named in his honor. He died there in 1905, respected and esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Bushong was a republican and a faithful member and active supporter of the Christian Church. He was married in Monroe County to Miss Mary Headrick, who was born in 1849 at Tompkinsville and still survives him as a resident of Monroe County. They became the parents of the following children: Ella, the wife of Jarrett Dickerson, a farmer of Plano, Texas; Dr. George W., of this record; W. D., who owns and operates the old farm and mill at Bushong, and who is a prominent republican of Monroe County; and Nancy, who died at Tompkinsville, in December, 1914, aged thirty-seven years, as the wife of Dr. J. F. Marrs, a physician and surgeon of Tompkinsville. fromhttp://books.google.com/books?id=Vi8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=kentucky+jacob+%22bushong%22+military&source=bl&ots=5nOztgxa8q&sig=9Engk57zn6GK6dPIy7v2w3z8Bgs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D_UKT_WJM-j10gHs8ICJAg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=kentucky%20jacob%20%22bushong%22%20military&f=false --------------------- Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong