Hi all you Busby kin, I have been reading all the info on the board for a long time, but only lurked behind the scene because my Busbys do not seem to be connected with yours. Gotta be somewhere though. The Busbys were on my mother's side and she did not know much info about them, but I can remember visiting a few Busby kin when I was young. My mother studied music at Washington University in St. Louis and taught piano lessons and music theory for many years. She also played a huge pipe organ at church for a long time. I remember when I really was young going with her to practice the organ on Saturdays and sitting close under the bench so I could watch her feet on the pedals. My son also plays in a band in Memphis, Tn., but all by ear. He plays mostly guitars, but is learning different instruments as he can. He did not do anything with his music talent until he graduated high school in 1990. I am so proud he is now even though it is not my kind of music----some kind of rock. My mother's mother was Frances Josephine Buckelew. She was the daughter of Margaret C. Busby and Abner J. Buckelew. This Margaret is my brick wall. In 1860 she is listed in the household of a Jacob Busby and Sarah Green Busby, a couple too young to be her parents. There are several other teenaged siblings also and then 2 small children of Jacob and Sarah. Margaret marries in 1870 and moves to the Birmingham area in Alabama from Pike Co near Montgomery. Her sister, Melissa Elizabeth, marries a Morgan and goes to Oklahoma. Two brothers, Harvey and William H., go to the civil war. In 1850 we have an M.C. and M. E. and other different names(from 1860) in the home of Richard A. Busby in Madison County, near Huntsville. Richard A. and Elizabeth McKay Busby marry in 1836. No more mention of either after 1850. Now this Jacob of the 1860 census I thought might be an older brother at first, but he was born in 1828 quite a few years before Richard and Elizabeth married. The end of the story!!!!!! Now if you are as confused as I am I like you. I have the war records of Harvey that say he was killed in the war, but heard through the internet that he lived with Wm. H. and his wife for awhile. Jacob died in Kentucky during the war. By the way, I did find a few other descendents of the Busby-Buckelew marriage several years ago and have lost contact. None of them had any info. One of the men, Gerald Godfrey, was an organist and choir director in Birmingham. If anyone has any info on these Busbys, I think you can tell I would love to get my hands on it. More later, Meredith