-----Original Message----- From: cj <earle@ncci.net> To: BUSBY-L@rootsweb.com <BUSBY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 7:39 AM Subject: Re: Busby/Buzby ? Are any of you Mississippi Busby's familiar with Carlee Alvin Busby or Lemuel Busby his father? Carlee was born in 1896. We think they lived near Oxford, Mississippi. I sure would appreciate some help beginning this line. Thanks. Kathy >Howard, > >As you probably already read, my grandfather was William Alvin Busby. He >was one of the 122 you mentioned. I lived in Louisville Mississippi from >1973 thru 1975. My mother would comb the white pages and remarked that >there were a lot of Busby's in the Yazoo area. The first thing she would do >when they checked in a hotel would be check out the phone book. She never >called any of them. Also, there is a fine men's clothing shop in Owensboro, >Kentucky which carries the Busby name. I have been told that the owner >lives in Florida. Merry Christmas to all our family, which grows larger >every day. >Carolyn. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <HBusby@aol.com> >To: <BUSBY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 9:42 PM >Subject: Re: Busby/Buzby ? > > >> In a message dated 12/19/99 8:18:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> jbusby@knology.net writes: >> >> << My grandfather was William Harvey Busby, Pike Co, MS; his grandfather >was >> William Ezekiel Busby, born in NC, where unknown. >> >> This is interesting, the many Busby men with the name William H. My >> grandfather and father were named William H. For the longest time I >thought >> the surname Busby was relatively unknown and its membership very small. I >was >> amazed at the number of people with that name cropping up on email daily. >> Just the other day, out of curiosity, I counted the number of William >Busbys >> on the Social Security death index and came across 122 William Busbys that >> had died between 1965 and 1995. >> While that may be small in comparison to the Smiths and Wongs of the >world, >> it is still a large number considering my previous assumptions. >> By the way, my grandfather and father were both from Mississippi as well. >> Howard >> >> >> ==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== >> Busby Family Homepage: >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/index.htm >> Listowner: Barbara Peddicord mailto:nashoba@cdsnet.net >> >> > > >==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb Resource Cluster >http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames >Listowner: Barbara Peddicord mailto:nashoba@cdsnet.net >