Sarah E. (Wisman) Bushong & William L. Bushong
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Dublin Core
Title
Sarah E. (Wisman) Bushong & William L. Bushong
Subject
Bushong, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sarah (Wisman) (1889-1972)
Bushong, William Lee (1914-1992)
Description
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sarah (Wisman) Bushong holding her first-born son, William Lee Bushong.
Lizzie was the daughter of William Luther (1859-1908) and Sarah A. (Doll) (1857-1930) Wisman. She was the third of four children born to the couple. In the 1900 census for the Stonewall District of Shenandoah County, her father’s occupation was listed as “Comm. Of Revenue”. Ten years later, Lizzie lived with her widowed mother and two siblings.
She married Emery Franklin Bushong in 1911. Over their years together, they had four sons: William Lee, Gilbert F., Forest B. and Garland W. In the 1930 census, the farming family lived on Boyer Road, still in the Stonewall District.
After her husband died, she remained in the area and the 1950 census found her with two lodgers, a married couple from South Dakota, who probably helped her with the farm work. In her later years, she also worked as a nurse in a hospital.
William Lee Bushong, known as “Lee”, was the son of Emery Franklin (1889-1949) and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sarah (Wisman) (1889-1972) Bushong. He grew up with three brothers on a farm in the Stonewall District of the county.
In 1921, 6-year old Lee and his younger brother, Gilbert, survived a harrowing 250-foot fall over a precipice across the river from the Triplett power plant. It occurred when the horse his father was using to pull a wagon up a mountain broke away and ran over the cliff with the wagon and boys attached. The two boys were found badly bruised but alive at the foot of the cliff near the river. They had to be rescued by boat. The newspaper article described the event as “one of the most remarkable escapes in the history of the mountains”.
He married Ruth Elizabeth (Clem) (born in Pennsylvania) in July 1935, in Cumberland, Maryland.
In the 1940 census, they both lived on State Road 604 (Fairview Road) near Woodstock with Lee’s parents. Lee worked as a stock dealer. Ruth worked as a bookkeeper at a private school. Their marriage did not last and they divorced in 1941.
For a time, Lee and two brothers, Gilbert and Forest "Peanut" Bushong, had a ranch in the Snowy Ridge area of Wyoming. Lee was a hunting guide there.
He married for the second time in 1942, in Boonesboro, Kentucky. His wife, Bera Maxine (Brosious) (1917-2010) was born in Kane, Wyoming, the daughter of Joseph J. and Mary (Herren) Brosnious.
Lee worked with horses much of his life. He and his wife were known for being avid race horse owners in the Front Royal area. Lee was also a well-known stock man and cattle dealer. His wife bred Limousin Cattle and worked as a teacher and administrator in the Warren County Public School system for 32 years. They did not have children.
Lizzie was the daughter of William Luther (1859-1908) and Sarah A. (Doll) (1857-1930) Wisman. She was the third of four children born to the couple. In the 1900 census for the Stonewall District of Shenandoah County, her father’s occupation was listed as “Comm. Of Revenue”. Ten years later, Lizzie lived with her widowed mother and two siblings.
She married Emery Franklin Bushong in 1911. Over their years together, they had four sons: William Lee, Gilbert F., Forest B. and Garland W. In the 1930 census, the farming family lived on Boyer Road, still in the Stonewall District.
After her husband died, she remained in the area and the 1950 census found her with two lodgers, a married couple from South Dakota, who probably helped her with the farm work. In her later years, she also worked as a nurse in a hospital.
William Lee Bushong, known as “Lee”, was the son of Emery Franklin (1889-1949) and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sarah (Wisman) (1889-1972) Bushong. He grew up with three brothers on a farm in the Stonewall District of the county.
In 1921, 6-year old Lee and his younger brother, Gilbert, survived a harrowing 250-foot fall over a precipice across the river from the Triplett power plant. It occurred when the horse his father was using to pull a wagon up a mountain broke away and ran over the cliff with the wagon and boys attached. The two boys were found badly bruised but alive at the foot of the cliff near the river. They had to be rescued by boat. The newspaper article described the event as “one of the most remarkable escapes in the history of the mountains”.
He married Ruth Elizabeth (Clem) (born in Pennsylvania) in July 1935, in Cumberland, Maryland.
In the 1940 census, they both lived on State Road 604 (Fairview Road) near Woodstock with Lee’s parents. Lee worked as a stock dealer. Ruth worked as a bookkeeper at a private school. Their marriage did not last and they divorced in 1941.
For a time, Lee and two brothers, Gilbert and Forest "Peanut" Bushong, had a ranch in the Snowy Ridge area of Wyoming. Lee was a hunting guide there.
He married for the second time in 1942, in Boonesboro, Kentucky. His wife, Bera Maxine (Brosious) (1917-2010) was born in Kane, Wyoming, the daughter of Joseph J. and Mary (Herren) Brosnious.
Lee worked with horses much of his life. He and his wife were known for being avid race horse owners in the Front Royal area. Lee was also a well-known stock man and cattle dealer. His wife bred Limousin Cattle and worked as a teacher and administrator in the Warren County Public School system for 32 years. They did not have children.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Labelled "April 1915" on box of plates.
Contributor
Identified by Betsy (Hoffman) Bushong, whose husband was Sarah's grandson and William's nephew. Relatives have this photograph and she had seen it before.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Information about the Bushong accident was originally published on 1 September 1921 in the Shenandoah Herald newspaper and was also reprinted in the Past Events Section of the Free Press, Shenandoah County, Virginia, on March 11, 2011. We have extracted information from the reprinted article.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
William Lee Bushong appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001984, 003931, 008905, 009635, 014138, 016520, 016521, and 016522.
Sarah E. (Wisman) Bushong appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 005903 and 009635.
Identifier
009635
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Sarah E. (Wisman) Bushong & William L. Bushong,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/32886.
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