I have no specific BUSHONG information, but I'm still astounded by some of the back & forth traveling between Shenandoah, VA, and Greene Co, OH. Considering the journey, I had assumed when a family 'went west' they 'stayed west'. One John Blessing (b. 25 Dec 1793) went west from Shenandoah to check out his uncle John Blessing's (Clarissa Skeen) Gladey Run, Greene Co, OH, farm about 1810. Returned to Shenandoah with a favorable report. (Served in the War of 1812 out of VA.) Then returned to OH in 1816 with cash to buy 600 acres by Trebien, Greene Co, along the Little Miami River, for his dad, Lewis Blessing (Elizabeth Barthsherrer). Returned to VA to report on same. Returned to OH with his brother Jacob( both were bachelors) b. 17 Jul 1792 to get the land cleared and the barn and brick house underway. By 1824 the family was ready to (finally) remove from VA to OH. Some of this came to naught, both Jacob and Lewis died a month apart in 1824 in Greene Co of what the chroniclers of 1900 would call 'immigrant fever' in their bio's. However Lewis' widow and the 2 daughters (Mary and Elizabeth) carried on the farm with the surviving son John. Even in a car, on modern highways, I consider that a lot of trucking- about. Sue On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Good afternoon Vashenan Subscribers, > > It is a balmy sunny 72 degrees in Lakeland, Florida today. A > beautiful day > to be outside but I am at my computer trying to figure out a > puzzle. Possibly > someone from this List can help. In the 1850 census for Champaign > County, > Ohio there is a Jesse Bushong age 25 living in the household of > Abram and Sarah > Hess. They were all born in the Valley of Virginia. Does anyone > have any > information on this Hess family? What was Sarah's maiden name? Was > it Bushong or > something else. Is this Jesse Bushong the son of Peter Bushong? > Did these > people leave Virginia, go to Ohio and then come back to Virginia > because they > didn't like it? > > Many questions and no answers at this point. Help!

I also at first thought when a family went "west" they were gone for good, and perhaps that is true later when moving from midwest to west coast.....but our good ole early VA ancestors seem to have moved back and forth from their old homes to their new. For example: The Turney family by 1749 Peter Turney Sr was near Edinburg VA.....1774 four of the children had moved to the VA/TN border of today, 1787 the rest of the VA family sells their land and by 1789 are in KY. I am sure they moved to KY via going thru the Shenandoah Valley down into TN, then by Bean's Station and Cumberland Gap and into KY. This means the 1787 migration, they probably stopped in SW VA and eastern TN to visit the first to have moved out of VA. Peter Turney Jr. was one fo the first surveyors of what today is TN, he got there by early 1774 along with brother Henry Turney, and sisters Mary Beeler (wife of John Valentine Beeler) and Eva Teeter (wife of JOhn Teeter). All 4 of these show up ca 1769 on Stony Creek near Edinburg, 1774 on Beaver Creek in VA/TN. land records will blow your mind.... TENNESSEE COUSINS by Worth S. Ray p. 657 First Land Warrants issued in Davidson County.... WILLIAM CATHEY, 640 acres on Richland Creek, who obtained the right thereto from Peter Turney, who had it by assignment from Michael Lanick, Dec. 27, 1784. SHENANDOAH COUNTY VA DEED BOOKS Book F, p 345 23 Oct 1786 I WILL CATHEY of Shenandoah County appoint Michael Turney my true and lawful attorney for me to transfer or make a convenance to Peter Turney for a certain tract of land in Davidson County and State of North Carlina on a branch of Cumberland River known by name of Richland Creek it being land I purchased of said Peter Turney...640 a.. Witness: Richard Branham, William Cathey, John Skeen this is the same piece of land - it was near Nashville, TN (then North Carlina). 1784 it is registered in Davidson Co NC (TN), and in 1786 it is registered in Shenandoah Co VA Cathey is using MIchael Turney (brother of Peter Jr) to pay Peter Turney for the TN land. As I said, 1787 Michael Turney (and his brother and father Peter Jr) sell their VA land and travel thru TN to Kentucky. So I suppose this Will Cathey is sending money to Peter Turney Jr in TN by Michael Turney. Did Will Cathey ever move to TN? The Skeen name (wittness in 1786 VA) - I have seen Skeen name on some of the land records for Peter Turney SR and his son DAniel Turney - their land was near the Bird / Hawkins group a bit south of Edinburg. Also - Eve Turney Teeter and husband JOhn Teeter bought 450 acres in 1769 on Stony Creek in Frederick Co VA (later Dunmore and then Shenandoah). Brother Henry Turney also 1769 on Stoney creek as is Mary Beeler their sister. They had all by early 1774 moved to Beaver Creek of Holston River - Teeters were in VA, Henry and Peter Turney were nearby in TN (NC).....Land records there show that John and Eve Turney Teeter were of Fincastle Co VA when they sold their 450 acres on Stony Creek Shenandoah Co vA to an Adam Petre. This is interesting......since Adam Petre was the father? of two of the women who married sons of Mary Turney Beeler down in TN a bit later. But he did not move as early as the Turneys....an Adam Petre does show up on Beaver Creek of Holston River in TN as a neighbor (once again) of the Beelers and Teeters and Turneys. I don't know if it is the same Adam Petre but could be. The Daniel Nuland on 1749 land record of Peter Turney jr and Ulrich Peters ......Daniel Newland Jr appears in 1770s near the Turneys, Beelers, etc. in TN. So it would seem you have a few moving "west" but some of the family stays at the old home. They move with some of their neighbors.....each year a few more of the family and neighbors move "west". I would imagine a young man might have gone back to the old home place not just to inform the family of the new area, but perhaps also to marry an old girlfriend and take her back to his new home. I have been told one of the NIcely/Kniselys of Shenandoah Co VA moved to SW VA/eastern TN following his girlfriend who he married - she was a daughter of John and Eve Turney Teeter. I also know that the Turneys began about 1820 looking at NW Arkansas - they were living near Liberty TN. One or two of them had settled in AR before 1829, but mine did not move till late 1834, with more moving every year till 1840. There was still back and forth - some of the ones in Arkansas in late 1850s sent their youngest sons back to TN to live with relatives and go to school. Of course, this is much later, but the amount of moving around these guys did is amazing. I don't mean they always took the wife and kids, but it seems they were always ready to grab a friend and go hunting and looking at a new place. I imagine when they were home, they sat around the fire and talked about the different places they had seen, best routes, etc. And a lot of them ended up as land speculators in TN and KY area. Mary > I have no specific BUSHONG information, but I'm still astounded by > some of the back & forth traveling between Shenandoah, VA, and Greene > Co, OH. Considering the journey, I had assumed when a family 'went > west' they 'stayed west'.