Died age 98y 1m 23d
1870 census gives her name as Susanna
Free Press-Gazette Friday Dec. 1, 1893
At the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. J. N. Skinner, in Greenwood township, Nov. 26, 1893, Grandma Busby, as she was familiarly known, age 98 years, 1 month, 23 days.
The deceased was born in Nichols county, Kentucky, in 1795, and was married to Mathew Busby in 1815, moving to Indiana in 1828. After the demise of her husband in 1847, she made her home with her children in Indiana and Illinois. She was the mother of nine children, three of whom precceded her in death, and could point with pride on the fifth generation, being at the time a great-great-grandmother. She professed religion in her youth and was always a faithful and conscientious worker in the cause she believed to be right, having worked with Rev. Linley and Mrs. Rood in the first revival ever held in Nokomis, and was instrumental in organizing Center Grove church. At the time of her death she was a pensioner of the war of 1812.
1870 census gives her name as Susanna
Free Press-Gazette Friday Dec. 1, 1893
At the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. J. N. Skinner, in Greenwood township, Nov. 26, 1893, Grandma Busby, as she was familiarly known, age 98 years, 1 month, 23 days.
The deceased was born in Nichols county, Kentucky, in 1795, and was married to Mathew Busby in 1815, moving to Indiana in 1828. After the demise of her husband in 1847, she made her home with her children in Indiana and Illinois. She was the mother of nine children, three of whom precceded her in death, and could point with pride on the fifth generation, being at the time a great-great-grandmother. She professed religion in her youth and was always a faithful and conscientious worker in the cause she believed to be right, having worked with Rev. Linley and Mrs. Rood in the first revival ever held in Nokomis, and was instrumental in organizing Center Grove church. At the time of her death she was a pensioner of the war of 1812.
Died age 98y 1m 23d
1870 census gives her name as Susanna
Free Press-Gazette Friday Dec. 1, 1893
At the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. J. N. Skinner, in Greenwood township, Nov. 26, 1893, Grandma Busby, as she was familiarly known, age 98 years, 1 month, 23 days.
The deceased was born in Nichols county, Kentucky, in 1795, and was married to Mathew Busby in 1815, moving to Indiana in 1828. After the demise of her husband in 1847, she made her home with her children in Indiana and Illinois. She was the mother of nine children, three of whom precceded her in death, and could point with pride on the fifth generation, being at the time a great-great-grandmother. She professed religion in her youth and was always a faithful and conscientious worker in the cause she believed to be right, having worked with Rev. Linley and Mrs. Rood in the first revival ever held in Nokomis, and was instrumental in organizing Center Grove church. At the time of her death she was a pensioner of the war of 1812.
1870 census gives her name as Susanna
Free Press-Gazette Friday Dec. 1, 1893
At the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. J. N. Skinner, in Greenwood township, Nov. 26, 1893, Grandma Busby, as she was familiarly known, age 98 years, 1 month, 23 days.
The deceased was born in Nichols county, Kentucky, in 1795, and was married to Mathew Busby in 1815, moving to Indiana in 1828. After the demise of her husband in 1847, she made her home with her children in Indiana and Illinois. She was the mother of nine children, three of whom precceded her in death, and could point with pride on the fifth generation, being at the time a great-great-grandmother. She professed religion in her youth and was always a faithful and conscientious worker in the cause she believed to be right, having worked with Rev. Linley and Mrs. Rood in the first revival ever held in Nokomis, and was instrumental in organizing Center Grove church. At the time of her death she was a pensioner of the war of 1812.
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