This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Busby, Shirley, Miles Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SEH.2ACIB/757.758.801.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If you're the only person who knew of John Hamilton Busbee (however you spell that), then I probably got his name from something you posted. I saw a Hamilton Busbee, but he lived in Ohio, I think. David Shirley and Drusilla Busby had something like 7 children when they lived in Wayne Co., MS and one of the sons was Hamilton Shirley and another was Zachariah Shirley. I'm seeing now that there's an unaccounted for daughter in the Jeremiah Busby and Phoebe (Miles) Busby household. This Jeremiah is a son of Zachariah Busby who came from SC to Wayne Co., MS. I forget the particulars of people who are not the people I'm searching for, but I did notice that there was a Busby fellow who was a merchant in New Orleans and had a son who was born in Florida. You might have posted that too! I don't live in Louisiana anymore (sigh of relief), so I can't remember where St. Tammany or Caddo Parishes are, but the Shirley family ended up founding a town called DeRidder.