United States Census, 1910 for Marion A Bushong
Household Gender Age
Marion A Bushong M 38y
Spouse Nancy Bushong F 31y
Child Harold H Bushong M 11y
Child Harvel G Bushong M 9y
Child Hetty Bushong F 8y
Child Hattie Bushong F 6y
Child Hester Bushong F 2y. United States Census, 1920 for Harold Bushong
Name: Harold Bushong
Residence: , Cole, Missouri
Estimated Birth Year: 1899
Age: 21
Birthplace: Missouri
Relationship to Head of Household:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1820914
Digital Folder Number: 4312401
Image Number: 00131
Sheet Number: 12
some researchers have mistranscribed this record (below) but this is how it's indexed.
I believe this a newly adopted Bushong surname, from what other spelling, who knows. But there are virtually no Bushongs born in Maine through the 1940 census...
Harry Bushong, "United States Census, 1920"
Name: Harry Bushong
Event Type:
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: , Cole, Missouri
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Maine
Birth Year (Estimated): 1880
Relationship to Head of Household:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Household ID:
Sheet Number: 8
GS Film number: 1820914
Digital Folder Number: 4312401
Image Number: 00124. Stone photo present - double with Stella
Harold Bushong
...
Birth: 1898
Death: 1958
Husband of Stella
Family links:
Spouse:
Blanche M. Luna Bushong (1902 - 1932)*
*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Stubbs Cemetery
Texas County
Missouri, USA
Created by: bill
Record added: Mar 08, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 18299866. NOEL E. BUSHONG and brother CECIL L. BUSHONG are grandsons of HAROLD H. BUSHONG. HAROLD was married first to BLANCHE M.(LUNA)BUSHONG our Grandmother, she died in 1932. We knew very little of our grandfather as we lived in Oregon. DOYLE FRANKLIN BUSHONG his son our father.
- NOEL BUSHONG. United States Census, 1930 for Harold Bushing
Name: Harold Bushing
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: St Louis (Districts 251-500), St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: Ohio
Estimated Birth Year: 1900
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: West Virginia
Enumeration District Number: 0346
Family Number: 54
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Line Number: 31
NARA Publication: T626, roll 1231
Film Number: 2340966
Digital Folder Number: 4660823
Image Number: 00962
Household Gender Age
Harold Bushing M 30 Ohio/Germany/West Virginia
Spouse Blanch Bushing F 30 Missouri/Holland/Holland
Child Rudolph Bushing M 11 Missouri/Missouri/Missouri.
Child Dohma Bushing F 9 Missouri/Missouri/Missouri...
Child Doyle Bushing M 6 Polland /Ohio/Missouri
Roma String F 25 Missouri/Holland/Holland sister in law. "United States Census, 1940," Harold Bushong, Noble Township, Ozark, Ozark, Missouri, United States
Name: Harold Bushong
Titles & Terms:
Event: Census
Event Year: 1940
Event Place: Noble Township, Ozark, Ozark, Missouri, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Marital Status: Married
Race (Original): White
Race (Standardized): White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized): Head
Birthplace: Missouri
Estimated Birth Year: 1899
Residence in 1935: Rural, Ozark, Missouri
Enumeration District Number: 77-12
Family Number: 87
Sheet Number and Letter: 4B
Line Number: 53
NARA Publication Number: T627
NARA Roll Number: 2135
Digital Folder Number: 005460070
Image Number: 00559
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Harold Bushong M 41 Missouri
Wife Stella Bushong F 39 Missouri
Son Joe Andy Bushong M 4 Missouri
Son Ucle Bushong M 2 Missouri
Daughter Linda Lee Bushong F 0 Missouri. World War I Draft Registration
12 September 1918
HAROLD HAMILTON BUSHONG
Residence: Brixey, Ozark County, Missouri
Age 20, Farmer, White, Married, Native Born
Born: 2 May 1898
Nearest Relative: Blanch Irene Bushong, residence Brixey, Ozark County, Missouri
Medium Height
Slender Build
Blue Eyes
Black Hair
No physical disabilities. The Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri
Friday, 11 June 1937
Page 1, Column 5 and Page 9 Column 3
DECOMPOSED BODY OF WEALTHY OZARKS MAN FOUND IN UNDERBRUSH
TRIO HELD AT WEST PLAINS IN MURDER OF PALMER GILLILAND, 53
WEST PLAINS, Mo., 10 June--(AP)---Three men are held in jail here tonight,
charged with first degree murder in the death of Palmer Gilliland, 53 year
old well to do farmer and stockman of near Noble, in Ozark county, whose
badly decomposed body was found in underbrush in the wilds of his home county
this afternoon.
Charges, according to Ozark county Prosecuting Attorney D. W. Rogers,
are Ralph Taylor, 38, Buoy Taylor, 40, brothers, and Harold Bushong, 39, all
of near Noble. It was on Ralph Taylor's farm that the body of the 1500 acre
ranch owner was found, according to State Trooper Ted Taylor, who led the
quest.
Prosecuting Attorney Rogers said that the charges were filed before
Justice of the Peace E. W. Brice, Gainesville, Tuesday, soon after the three
men were arrested.
Three youths of Almartha, Missouri, near Noble, found the body. They
are Basil Souder, Ralph and Neal Crock. Coroner Charles Beach of Elijah, held
an inquest at the place the body was found. A verdict of murder was
returned.
A dog's body had been thrown on top the brush pile which concealed the
rancher's body. a crowbar, apparently the weapon with which Gilliland's
head was crushed, was found nearby.
It is believed that he was killed on 6 May, the day he was last seen.
Trooper Taylor said that, so far as the investigation has revealed, the last
persons to see Gilliland were Frank James, farmer, who lives near
Gilliland's place and Floyd Plaster, an employe of James. They said that early on
the morning of 6 May he and Buoy Taylor passed the James home.
The body was found six miles from Gilliland's home. Identification was
established through the dead man's teeth and shoes. Date of preliminary
hearing for the three has not been set.
Officers explained that the murder charges were filed against the three
prior to the finding of the body on the strength of "some evidence we
cannot reveal at this time." It was learned that on the night before his
disappearance Gilliland stayed at the home of Buoy Taylor.
Early on the morning of 6 May, he and Buoy went to the farm of Ralph
Taylor. Buoy , officers said,admitted that he accompanied Gilliland into a
field near the wooded area where the body was found. However, he has
maintained throughout three days of questioning that he can produce witnesses to
verify his story that Gilliland went back to Highway 5, four and a half miles
away, and was on his way to Almartha.
One officer, who has been in the investigation since it was begun last
Saturday, but who refused to be quoted, said "we arrested the Taylors
because Buoy was the last person seen with him. They went to Ralph's farm, and
according to our information, Gilliland never left that farm. Bushong had
been working for Gilliland since 1 April. A few days after Gilliland's
disappearance he (Bushong) moved into Gilliland's house. He admits that he sold
hogs off Gilliland's place in his own name, indicating that he knew Gilliland
would not return.
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The Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri
Saturday, 12 June 1937
Page 1, Column 6
SLAIN RANCHER'S EMPLOYE FREED
MURDER CLHARGE AGAINST ONE OF TRIO HELD AT GAINESVILLE WITHDRAWN
Gainesville, Mo., 11 June --(AP)---The rural calm of his town of the hills
had returned tonight. Only evidence of a week's excitement of the murder of
one of Ozark county's most respected citizens were the few stragglers on
the streets.
They talked of the crime, each person with his or her own theory, and each
person anxious to talk to General W. Rogers, the small, intense and
entirely frank prosecuting attorney who filed first-degree murder charges against
three men Tuesday, only to withdraw the charge against Harold Bushong, 39
year old employe of the slain rancher, Palmer Gilliland.
VICTIM A FRIEND OF THE PROSECUTOR.
Rogers was awakened early this morning after retiring late. When he got to
his office there was a group of men waiting to see him. After ordering
Sheriff Lyman Stevens to release the black-haired, deep-eyed hillsman,
Prosecutor Rogers went down from his office, with its rough hewn board walls, to
the street. Natives wanted to talk, but Rogers didn't.
He was tired of discussing the case which had consumed all the wakeful
hours of all officers in this section since the well-to-do rancher's
disappearance was reported a week ago. Gilliland was a friend of General (that's his
given name) Rogers, who described him as one of the "best business
men-farmers in this county."
Rogers spent most of last night at West Plains, questioning the two
brothers who are still held under murder charges. One of them is pleasant,
although not loquacious. The other is surly, sullen and prone to snap at his
accusers instead of answering their questions.
Buoy Taylor, 39, is in the bull pen of the new Howell county jail. He
slept "tolerably well" this morning. Ralph Taylor , his younger and less
pleasant tempered brother, wouldn't even say how he slept.
---------------
The Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri
Thursday, 11 November 1937
Page 1, Column 6 and Page 2 Column 6
BROTHERS ON TRIAL AT GAINESVILLE FOR SLAYING OF RANCHER
FLOYD, RALPH TAYLOR ACCUSED OF MURDERING PALMER GILLILAND
GAINESVILLE, Mo., 10 November --(AP)-- The state, opening its case against
Floyd and Ralph Taylor, charged with murdering Palmer Gilliland, well to do
Ozarks county rancher, marched a parade of witnesses to the stand in a
storeroom court here today.
Heading the parade was Harold Bushong, 39 year old hills farmer and
self-styled jack-of-all-trades, who was held in jail for three days, charged
with the Taylors in the murder. Bushong's testimony, told to a packed
courtroom, was undramatic.
He told of receiving a letter, which he thought was written by
Gilliland, a few days after the rancher disappear. The letter directed Bushong, who
worked on the Gilliland ranch, to deliver certain stock to the Taylor
brothers, Bushong testified. He said he destroyed the letter, in accordance with
instructions it contained.
For the most part the state's witnesses testified concerning the
rancher's movements and his disappearance.
Claude Garrett, Howell county sheriff, in whose custody the Taylors
were placed immediately after their arrest last 8 June, testified that they
made conflicting statements regarding their movements on the day Gilliland
disappeared.
The state is expected to close its case tomorrow morning. The defense
will, according to Attorney Tom Moore, file a demurrer. If the motion is
overruled, the Taylors will be called to the witness stand, Moore said.
The courtroom was so crowded that Judge Robert L. Gideon ordered the
doors closed and demanded that persons inside not move around. The courthouse
in Ozark county was destroyed by fire about two years ago. 1925 Kansas State Census
Douglas County
Harold Bushong Head/24/Male/White/Married/Laborer/MO
Blanche Irene Bushong Wife/Female/White/23/MO
Rudolph Bushong Son/Male/White/6/MO
Doulia Bushong 4/Female/White/MO. About the other Harry Bushong of the 1920 census...
June 12, 2013
MKS
Dear Mr. Bushong,
We found one entry for someone named BUSHONG in the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1920. Harry BUSHONG, #21510, pled guilty to grand larceny in Marion County and was sentenced to 2 years. He entered the penitentiary on 3-4-1919 and was released under commutation 8-6-1920. His age is different than the man listed in the census, 40 years old as opposed to 21. No wife or other family members are listed.
To order a copy of his penitentiary record please send a check or money order (no cash) to the Missouri State Archives at the address below. Please also include a self-addressed, stamped envelope as well as a copy of this email for our reference.
Harry BUSHONG #21510
Vol. HH, pg. 134, S233
2 pages = $1.00
Sincerely,
Research Staff
Missouri State Archives
600 W. Main St.
P.O. Box 1747
Jefferson City, MO 65102
[email protected](573) 751-3280.