Where in Mississippi? I will be offline for a month or so. Will check with you when get back on. ---------- >From: HBusby@aol.com >To: BUSBY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Busby/Buzby ? >Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999, 9:42 PM > > 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 > >