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    1. BUSBY FAMILY OF KENTUCKY & TEXAS, IN THE 1800'S
    2. Tom Dunklin
    3. Good Morning Busby list members. Even though I have posted my Busby family on this list several times in the past, I have had no luck in finding the information I need. Below is the information I posted on the Falls County, Texas Query Board. I would like to also post it here on the list in hopes that even more Busby researchers will see it. Hopefully someone will recognize this family and contact me. Surname: BUSBY, TINSLEY, SWEENY, SPOTWOOD, PRICE, LONG, ALLEN, GRAY, SEELEY Still seeking information about the ancestors and family of David BUSBY who came to TX in the fall of 1850 and settled in Falls Co., TX. Two very nice people have already sent me the Busby information available in the book, "FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY", but I am still unable to find out much about David's parents, Matthew and Saluda Tinsley BUSBY. I have the names of David's four siblings but I have reason to believe that there was another one, a sister by the name of Matilda; Rebecca is possibly her first or middle name. She was my GG grandmother. Matilda was born c. 1815-1820 in or near Adair County, KY and on her 1841 Adair County marriage license application, she named Matthew Busby as her father. Matilda married Martin W. Banks in 1841 and by 1850, with Martin Banks apparently dead or gone, she and her 8 yr old daughter, Mary Margaret, are shown on the Mercer Co, Ky census living in the home of Milton Busby and his brother, Edward. She and Mary Margaret came to Tx in 1850 with Milton and his family and settled in Freestone County in the Cotton Gin Community where in 1853, Matilda married her second husband, William W. GROOVER. I can find nothing that documents Matthew as being Matilda's father but there are just too many coincidences to believe otherwise. I believe Matilda named Mary Margaret for her own grandmother, Margaret, w/o John Busby. Mary Margaret, who married Reuben MANNING in 1855 in Freestone Co, TX, in turn named one of her daughters, Saluda A., born in 1860 in Freestone Co. There must surely be someone in either the BUSBY family or associated families who can help me find the proof I need to prove Matilda was Matthew and Saluda's daughter. I have also never been able to learn the name of Milton's wife who died about 1860. Milton was living in Freestone County at the time, so I'm assuming that both she and Milton died there. Does anyone know where they are buried? Any additional information (and any documentation that will prove Matilda's kinship to Matthew) on this family would be greatly appreciated, especially information about their lives in Kentucky before they moved to Texas.

    12/01/1999 06:11:58