Sue- I have to agree. That is a lot of back and forth on, most likely, horseback. Good grief! That would be a lot even in a car today! Sharon ----- Original Message ---- From: Susan McConnell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 10:44:01 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Then back to VA? 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! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ