At 08:26 AM 1/31/00 -0600, you wrote: >Hopefully I can clarify some information about William Busby. It appears >that there was two William Busby's in Mobile at the same time. One was the >William that married Nancy Cooper. He was from Georgia. The other was He was the SC one. He was in Bay Minette earlier,Dale Co , Crawford Co. Ga.in 1830/40. HIs children as listed in 1860 are the same children listed in earlier census. I have a family bible which claims him as the father of my greatgrandfather. >William Busby that married (1) Lou Etta Ennis and (2) Phoebe Grimes. The >one that married Lou Ennis was my GGgrandfather. He had several daughters >and one son by his first marriage and four children by his second marriage. >His daughter, Serena, married Elijah C. Ward in Mobile in 1860. I got >Serena's mothers name, Lou Ennis from Serena's death certificate. My William also had a son named William H. and there was a differenmtWilliam H. in Muscogee Co. Ga in 1860? >What we are faced with is one William from SC and one William from Georgia >in Mobile at the same time. This causes confusion because both sides think >that the William H. Busby who died in 1870 is their ancestor. It is not >clear to me which one died in 1870. I thought it was mine since he is >shown as being from SC. Others think he is theirs because his wife, Nancy, >died in Mobile later as I have been told. Mine was from SC and his wife was Nancy Cooper. >Many people think that the SC William is related to the Wayne County, MS >Busbys. I think that also but I don't think the relationship is >Father/Son. Circa 1810 that was a William Busby in Washington Parish, LA. >He died before the 1820 census and a widow Busby and a William Busby is in >the 1820 Washington Parish, LA census. William is also there in 1830. He >then shows up during the early 1830s in Clarke County, MS, which, of >course, is next to Wayne County, MS where many Busbys are located. > > >Most of Williams children by his first marriage married in Mobile and >several of them are buried in Indian Springs cemetery. I don't know is >William is buried there or not. His two oldest married sisters in Dale Co. AL. > Some people say he is but there is, to my >knowledge, no proof of that. On a trip to Mobile I talked to one of the >people that was responsible for the cemetery and they told me no records >exist on who is buried there other than the ones with headstones. > >I would certainly like to know whether or not William was indeed in LA as a >young man and also if he is the William H. Busby who died in 1870. BTW, I >found the obit for the one who died in 1870 in a Mobile Newspaper and he >died of anemia. True, that is what the 1870 MortalityCensus says. I would like a copy of the obit. >Bob Doherty > > > >==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb Resource Cluster >http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames >Listowner: Barbara Peddicord mailto:nashoba@cdsnet.net