Found in Virtual Flower:
Obituaries and Death Notices
The Mountain Parker, Mountain Park, Kiowa Co., OK
Extracted by Linda Norman Garrison,
The Tree Tracers, Volume XX, Number 1, Sept-Nov 1995
Nov. 11, 1937
John Henry Busby was born in the home of J.C. and Pollyanna Busby at Meridian, Mississippi on June 15, 1855, and died in the home of his son Riley Busby, in Mountain Park, November 5, 1937. He was married to Miss Martha L. Reed at Denton, Tex, 1891. To this union four sons were born.
They moved to Greer County, Okla., where he homesteaded. They sold out and purchased a farm near Mountain Park in which community they have lived since, except for three years when they lived in Okemah, Okla. At about 47 years of age he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church.
His wife died March 6, 1919 and he leaves behind his four sons, John of Hobart, Riley of Mountain Park, Lee of Lake Arthur, New Mexico and Earl of Hobbs, New Mexico, his older brother, William of Reed, Okla., and nine grandchildren.
There is an interesting story connected with his life. He and his older brother, William, at the age of five and eight respectively, were kidnapped by Doctor Chadwick, who took them from their home in Meridian, Mississippi, to east Texas, where they were compelled to do farm work without pay and for a bare living. When John was eight years old, they ran off with only a shot gun. They earned their livelihood by working on farms and ranches until they grew to manhood. They were treated very roughly by many. At one time William hired out to a farmer and was to receive a horse in payment, but when the time for settlement came, he refused to let him have the horse. He told the neighbors and they made the farmer let him have the horse. They searched for their mother, who had also started to search for them. Their trails crossed many times but they never met each other for fifty-eight years. William, who has become a Baptist minister, related the story of their kidnapping and search for their mother to his son, Grover, who also became a Baptist minister, and took up the search. He found his grandmother in 1923 on one of his pastoral journeys and brought the union of the two sons and their mother. The mother lived three years, dying in 1926 at the age of 100 years."
Obituaries and Death Notices
The Mountain Parker, Mountain Park, Kiowa Co., OK
Extracted by Linda Norman Garrison,
The Tree Tracers, Volume XX, Number 1, Sept-Nov 1995
Nov. 11, 1937
John Henry Busby was born in the home of J.C. and Pollyanna Busby at Meridian, Mississippi on June 15, 1855, and died in the home of his son Riley Busby, in Mountain Park, November 5, 1937. He was married to Miss Martha L. Reed at Denton, Tex, 1891. To this union four sons were born.
They moved to Greer County, Okla., where he homesteaded. They sold out and purchased a farm near Mountain Park in which community they have lived since, except for three years when they lived in Okemah, Okla. At about 47 years of age he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church.
His wife died March 6, 1919 and he leaves behind his four sons, John of Hobart, Riley of Mountain Park, Lee of Lake Arthur, New Mexico and Earl of Hobbs, New Mexico, his older brother, William of Reed, Okla., and nine grandchildren.
There is an interesting story connected with his life. He and his older brother, William, at the age of five and eight respectively, were kidnapped by Doctor Chadwick, who took them from their home in Meridian, Mississippi, to east Texas, where they were compelled to do farm work without pay and for a bare living. When John was eight years old, they ran off with only a shot gun. They earned their livelihood by working on farms and ranches until they grew to manhood. They were treated very roughly by many. At one time William hired out to a farmer and was to receive a horse in payment, but when the time for settlement came, he refused to let him have the horse. He told the neighbors and they made the farmer let him have the horse. They searched for their mother, who had also started to search for them. Their trails crossed many times but they never met each other for fifty-eight years. William, who has become a Baptist minister, related the story of their kidnapping and search for their mother to his son, Grover, who also became a Baptist minister, and took up the search. He found his grandmother in 1923 on one of his pastoral journeys and brought the union of the two sons and their mother. The mother lived three years, dying in 1926 at the age of 100 years."
Found in Virtual Flower:
Obituaries and Death Notices
The Mountain Parker, Mountain Park, Kiowa Co., OK
Extracted by Linda Norman Garrison,
The Tree Tracers, Volume XX, Number 1, Sept-Nov 1995
Nov. 11, 1937
John Henry Busby was born in the home of J.C. and Pollyanna Busby at Meridian, Mississippi on June 15, 1855, and died in the home of his son Riley Busby, in Mountain Park, November 5, 1937. He was married to Miss Martha L. Reed at Denton, Tex, 1891. To this union four sons were born.
They moved to Greer County, Okla., where he homesteaded. They sold out and purchased a farm near Mountain Park in which community they have lived since, except for three years when they lived in Okemah, Okla. At about 47 years of age he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church.
His wife died March 6, 1919 and he leaves behind his four sons, John of Hobart, Riley of Mountain Park, Lee of Lake Arthur, New Mexico and Earl of Hobbs, New Mexico, his older brother, William of Reed, Okla., and nine grandchildren.
There is an interesting story connected with his life. He and his older brother, William, at the age of five and eight respectively, were kidnapped by Doctor Chadwick, who took them from their home in Meridian, Mississippi, to east Texas, where they were compelled to do farm work without pay and for a bare living. When John was eight years old, they ran off with only a shot gun. They earned their livelihood by working on farms and ranches until they grew to manhood. They were treated very roughly by many. At one time William hired out to a farmer and was to receive a horse in payment, but when the time for settlement came, he refused to let him have the horse. He told the neighbors and they made the farmer let him have the horse. They searched for their mother, who had also started to search for them. Their trails crossed many times but they never met each other for fifty-eight years. William, who has become a Baptist minister, related the story of their kidnapping and search for their mother to his son, Grover, who also became a Baptist minister, and took up the search. He found his grandmother in 1923 on one of his pastoral journeys and brought the union of the two sons and their mother. The mother lived three years, dying in 1926 at the age of 100 years."
Obituaries and Death Notices
The Mountain Parker, Mountain Park, Kiowa Co., OK
Extracted by Linda Norman Garrison,
The Tree Tracers, Volume XX, Number 1, Sept-Nov 1995
Nov. 11, 1937
John Henry Busby was born in the home of J.C. and Pollyanna Busby at Meridian, Mississippi on June 15, 1855, and died in the home of his son Riley Busby, in Mountain Park, November 5, 1937. He was married to Miss Martha L. Reed at Denton, Tex, 1891. To this union four sons were born.
They moved to Greer County, Okla., where he homesteaded. They sold out and purchased a farm near Mountain Park in which community they have lived since, except for three years when they lived in Okemah, Okla. At about 47 years of age he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church.
His wife died March 6, 1919 and he leaves behind his four sons, John of Hobart, Riley of Mountain Park, Lee of Lake Arthur, New Mexico and Earl of Hobbs, New Mexico, his older brother, William of Reed, Okla., and nine grandchildren.
There is an interesting story connected with his life. He and his older brother, William, at the age of five and eight respectively, were kidnapped by Doctor Chadwick, who took them from their home in Meridian, Mississippi, to east Texas, where they were compelled to do farm work without pay and for a bare living. When John was eight years old, they ran off with only a shot gun. They earned their livelihood by working on farms and ranches until they grew to manhood. They were treated very roughly by many. At one time William hired out to a farmer and was to receive a horse in payment, but when the time for settlement came, he refused to let him have the horse. He told the neighbors and they made the farmer let him have the horse. They searched for their mother, who had also started to search for them. Their trails crossed many times but they never met each other for fifty-eight years. William, who has become a Baptist minister, related the story of their kidnapping and search for their mother to his son, Grover, who also became a Baptist minister, and took up the search. He found his grandmother in 1923 on one of his pastoral journeys and brought the union of the two sons and their mother. The mother lived three years, dying in 1926 at the age of 100 years."
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