This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Busby, Busbey, Bodkin, Lewis Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SEH.2ACIB/1145.1.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Paula, Edwina, I'm too confused to try to sort this out further, but might be some clues below. I hope they haven't already been followed to no avail. I quote the bio of Thomas Busbey below? Is the Matthew Busbey here the Matthew Busbey who is the son of John Busby and Margaret Patterson? Could be if they left Antrim, IR after Matthew's birth. It looks to me like there was Hamilton Busbey, son of John Busby and Hamilton Busbey, grandson of John Busby and son of Matthew Busbey. OR, the author below wrote "Matthew Busby" mistakenly and should have written "John Busby." & (judging from the link you referred to) Samuel Busby who m. Esther Shinn and had a son Hamilton Busby cannot be the same Samuel Busby who is named in the will of John Busby because one died in Kentucky and one died in Virginia. (The quote below from Clark Co., OH shows how the author/horseracer Hamilton Busby of NYC is related.) from http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Clark/ClarkHarmonybio.htm transcription of The History of Clark County Ohio: "THOMAS C. BUSBEY, retired teacher; P. O. Vienna Cross Roads. Matthew Busbey, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland. He came to America about the year 1771. He settled on the south bank of the Potomac, in Hampshire Co.. Va. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary army. At the time of his death he left a widow, five sons and one daughter. Hamilton Busbey, the father of the subject of this sketch, being the youngest. Hamilton Busbey was born in Hampshire Co., Va., on the old homestead, July 5, 1792. He was married to Miss Sophia Lewis, of Winchester, Va., in the year 1813. This union was blessed by the birth of seven sons and five daughters, ten of whom are now living, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. Hamilton Busbey and family came to Ohio in October, 1815, and settled in what is now Harmony Township, near the town of Lisbon. Hamilton was a man of considerable influence. He took an active part in the organization of! Clark County and Harmony Township. He did much in the organization of the schools of Harmony Township. Hamilton Busbey, in 1815, was looking about for a suitable place to locate in the county. At this time he was offered the lot upon which Jones & Miller's dry goods store is now situated in Springfield for a very small sum of money, but in his judgment at that time Lisbon was the most promising place of the two, where he purchased a corner lot. What a change since then! Hamilton Busbey was a Quartermaster in the war of 1812. Mr. Busbey was for some years the owner of a farm near where the town of Plattsburg now is. He and his family (excepting the subject of this sketch) moved to Illinois in 1839, and settled in Coles Co., where he died Dec. 16, 1847. His wife, Sophia, died at the same place April 2, 1855. The subject of this sketch, Thomas C. Busbey, was born in the town of Romney, in Hampshire Co., Va., March 13, 1815. He came to Harmony Township with his parents in 1815,! where he has continued to reside since. He commenced teaching school at the age of 19 years, and continued to teach for thirty-five years in Clark Co. Mr. Busbey was united in marriage, May 24, 1838, to Miss Anna Bodkin, a daughter of Richard Bodkin, who was a pioneer of Ohio. He was born in Harrison Co.. Va., in 1787. He settled in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in 1803, and moved to Clark Co. in 1808. Richard Bodkin's wife, Elizabeth Bodkin (nee) Hester, was born July 28, 1782; she lived where Cincinnati, Ohio, now is, when there were but three houses in that neighborhood. As a result of the marriage of Thomas C. and Anna Busbey, there has been born to them ten children, nine of whom are now living-William (the political editor of the Inter-Ocean, of Chicago, Ill.), Hamilton (a contributing editor, and one of the proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm, of New York City) . . ."