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Jacob Bushong
Birth: Jun. 25, 1813
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: May 28, 1880
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Jacob Bushong, husband to Margaret Hobson, son of Henry Bushong and Sarah Gilbert.
Prior to the Civil War, Jacob Bushong was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and an abolitionist who helped in the Bushong family's active participation in the Underground Railroad. Along with his father, and his half brother, Gilbert and his uncle Jacob Bushong, he helped to keep the Underground Railroad running, by assisting runaway slaves on their journey to freedom.
Family links:
Parents:
Henry Bushong (1783 - 1870)
Sarah Gilbert Bushong (1787 - 1831)
Spouse:
Margaret Hobson Bushong (1818 - 1902)
Burial
Bart Friends Meeting
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Maintained by: Rick Bushong
Originally Created by: Eliz Davis Hanebury
Record added: May 25, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37497723. ?? is this a typo? date conflicts with children's birth...
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE MARRIAGES 1645-1899
Jacob Bushong
Margaret Hobson
1 Jan 1854
http://genealogytrails.com/del/newcastle/newcastlemarriages-B.html. U. S. MORTALITY SCHEDULE - 1850 - 1880
Persons Who Died during the Year ending May 31, 1880
Eden Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Jacob Bushong
66/Male/White/Married/Farmer/MonthPersonDiedMay/Paralysis/HowManyYearsResidentOf This County50 years/PA/PA/PA/AttendingPhysicianJohnMartin. Jacob Bachong
United States Census, 1850
Name: Jacob Bachong
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Bart, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1813
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
House Number: 116
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Jacob Bachong 37/Male/White/Farmer/$6000/PA
Margaret Bushong 31/Female/White/PA
Henry Bushong 6/Male/White/AttendedSchool/PA
Edwin Bushong 2/Male/White/PA
John Hunter 14/Male/White/AttendedSchool/PA
Jacob Brown 21/Male/Black/Laborer/Laborer/CannotReadOrWrite/Maryland. Jacob Bushong
United States Census, 1860
Name: Jacob Bushong
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Eden Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Race: White
Race (Original): [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1814
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Page: 4
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Jacob Bushong 46/Male/Farmer/$11,750/PA
Margaret Bushong 41/Female/Housewife/PA
Henry Bushong 16/Male/Farmer/AttendedSchool/PA
Edwin Bushong 12/Male/Farmer/Attendedschool/PA
Francis Hobson 50/Male/Gentleman/P. Jacob Bushong
United States Census, 1870
Name: Jacob Bushong
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1870
Event Place: Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1813-1814
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Page Number: 2
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Jacob Bushong 56/Male/White/Farmer/$18,000-$3000/PA
Margaret Bushong 57/Female/White/KeepingHouse/PA
Edwin Bushong 22/Male/White/Farmer/PA
Phebe Hobson 29/Female/White/SchoolTeacher/PA
Stanton Hopkins 15/Male/Mulatto/AttendedSchool/PA
Elmira James 12/Female/Mulatto/AttendedSchool/PA
Henry James 9/Male/Mulatto/PA
Francis Harvey 25/Male/Black/BrickMaker/PA
Catharine Henry 17/Female/Black/PA. Robert Clemen Smedley’s “History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania” records the following incidents:
Jacob Bushong, of Bart, Lancaster County, a quiet but devoted laborer in the cause of freedom, relates the case of one Hamilton Moore who settled in his neighborhood. He was peaceable and respected, and to all appearances a white man. Not a tinge of African blood was discernible in his complexion, nor had any one the least suspicion that there was any. He married a white woman and became the father of three children. After the lapse of several years a number of men came to his dwelling and claimed him as a runaway slave; the leader of this gang being Hamilton Moore’s father.
Although that was a pro-slavery community, the man’s purely Anglo-Saxon appearance and good character had so won the esteem of his neighbors that they would not submit to what they termed an outrage upon him, but arose en masse and rescued him from his captors. He was then taken to the house of Henry Bushong, Jacob’s father, in Adams County, who assisted him to a place of greater security.
About the year 1831, a person calling himself William Wallace, but whose slave name was “Snow,” came to Wm. Kirk’s in West Lampeter township, Lancaster county. Here he worked for some time, then went to Joshua Gilbert’s in Bart township, and afterwards was employed by Henry Bushong, who had now removed to Bart township, and whose place became one of the Underground Railroad stations. After remaining there two years, his wife and child were brought to him from one of the Carolinas …
In the summer of 1835 while he and Jacob Bushong were at work in the barn, they observed four men in a two-horse wagon drive into the lane, accompanied by two men on horseback. Jacob thought them a “suspicious looking crowd,” and told Wallace to keep out of sight while he went out to meet them. They inquired if Mr. Wallace lived there. Jacob replied in the negative, satisfying his conscience by means of the fact that William lived at a tenement house, but worked for him. Pointing towards Wallace’s house they asked if his family lived there; to which he made no reply. Leaving their horses in charge of two of the men, they went to the house, tied his wife, brought her and the oldest child to the wagon, loaded them in, took them to the Lancaster county jail, and lodged them there. The youngest child being born on free soil was left with a colored woman who happened to be in the house at the time. From there they went to John Urick’s, a colored man, whose wife had escaped from slavery with Wallace’s wife. They bound her, took her to jail also, and had the two women placed in the same cell while they started out on another hunt.
The startling news soon spread throughout the country, and was immediately carried to that foremost friend of the slave, Daniel Gibbons. Very early next morning the two women came to his house. The family would not have been more surprised had an apparition come suddenly into their midst. When asked how they came, one of them said, “I broke jail.”
“How did you do it?”
“I found a case-knife, and got up from one room to another until I got next the roof, when I cut the lath and shingles and broke through; got out and down to the roof of an adjoining house, and thence from one house to another until I came to one that was low enough, and then I jumped from it to the ground.”
They were taken to the wheat field and provided with blankets and food, and next night were taken by Dr. Joseph Gibbons, Daniel’s son, and Thomas Peart, several miles to the house of Jesse Webster. From there they were taken to Thomas Bonsall’s, thence to John Vicker’s, and thus on to other stations.
The account given by the women seemed so strange and incredible that Dr. Gibbons interviewed that eccentric character “Devil-Dave” Miller, who was then sheriff, and lived in the jail. When asked how it happened that he allowed two negro women to slip through his fingers, he winked and laughed. It was afterwards discovered that he opened the jail door and let them walk out. This was the only black woman known to Daniel and his son who persisted in keeping her own secret.
In 1832, a colored (sic) woman and her daughter came to Henry Bushong’s. The back of this poor woman was a most revolting spectacle for Christian eyes to behold. It had been cut into gashes with the master’s whip until it was a mass of lacerated flesh and running sores. Her owner was exasperated to this deed of cruelty on account of one of her children having successfully escaped, and she, knowing its whereabouts, refused to tell. To compel her to reveal this secret, they bound her down in a bent position, and five hundred lashes with a cat-o-nine-tails were inflicted upon her naked back. Yet with the faithfulness and devotion of a mother’s love she endured it all. Seeing that no amount of whipping could induce her to betray her child and thus return it from freedom to slavery, and fearing her own life might be lost by further infliction, they ceased plying the lash upon that quivering back, which was now a mass of mangled flesh and jellied blood. As soon as she had sufficiently recovered, she determined to risk her life in an attempt to free herself from the cruelty and tortures of a slavery like this. After being kindly and tenderly cared for in the home of Henry Bushong, she was taken to a station further east.
Part 2 of the story of the Bushong family will appear next week on WND. Read the full account of “A House Divided” on the Leben website.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/christian-family-thrust-into-throes-of-civil-war/#2cqEYlae5qoWjvjj.99. Jacob Bushong had person sources.
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