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 > >