Buschjost
Bushjost
Buschjoest
Buschgort
H.C. Buschjost and Mary Jane Lawing married October 23, 1893 in Pottersville, Howell County, Missouri. H.C. was 27 years old and Mary was 16 years old, which required her father's consent to the marriage. Interestingly, this was not Mary Jane's first marriage. Her first marriage was to Emmett J. Wells in 1891 when she was 14. My research has found Emmett married with a family in later years, so I believe they divorced; however, I have not found any records of that so far.
Together H.C. and Mary had seven children:
Clara Buschjost Adair 1895 - 1918 (Lester's mom)
Ceclie Buschjost 1897 - 1990
Nadine Vena Buschjost Gardner 1898-1956
Harry Jackson Buschjost 1900-1966
Charles F. Buschjoest 1904-1974
Hazel E. Buschjost Long 1909 - 1975
Hattie G. Buschjost (DiCarlo or Allen) 1911-2003
The 1900 Federal Census record shows the family living in Benton, Arkansas in a town called Hico which is now Siloam Springs. Notice H.C. is listed as Charles H. Buschjost born April of 1851 in Germany. Interestingly if he were born in 1851 he would have been 42 at the time of their marriage, yet the marriage certificate indicates he was 27 making him born about 1866 (which other records match). This could be an error on the census takers part, or did Charles misspeak? Did an accent make him harder to understand? Clara (our great grandmother) was born in Missouri and so was Cecil. Cecil was listed as a son, but I know she is a daughter. It can be challenging weeding out the incorrect information from what is accurate.
In the 1910 Federal Census record taken in April of 1910 the Buschjost family is living in Nash Township in Muskogee County Oklahoma, or Indian Territory at the time. The area was opened to non-indian settlement during the Cherokee Outlet Opening in September of 1893.
Again, the names and information can be confusing. H.C. Buschjost is listed as 46 years old making him born in 1864. Cecil(e) is listed as a daughter and there are 3 more kids. If you notice Mary J.'s listed as wife, female, white, 33 years of age, married for 16 years, the 7 & 6 column is the number of births to that woman - 7, the next number is the number of living children - 6. This means they lost a child. I have not been able to located any records yet as to when this might have been. Oklahoma did not legally require birth or death certificate filings until 1917, with the earliest birth records they have being from 1908.
1920 Federal Census, we find the family in Hulbert, Oklahoma. This is about 15 miles north east of Nash Township (basically Fort Gibson, OK)
H.C. is not listed, with Mary J. being listed as the "head of household" and a new daughter Hattie G. was 8 years old. Clara is not listed, and neither is Nadine.
Since the 1910 census, Clara had married James Harrison "Jim" Adair in 1912 and had her little family daughter Lois in 1915, son Earl in 1916, Lester in 1917, and Maxine in 1918, passing away three weeks later. I did obtain a copy of her death certificate which was completed by her mother (previous news articles indicated her husband, Jim was very ill with pneumonia when Clara passed). Her mother lists Clara's father as Charley Buschjost born in Germany. The "C" in HC is Charles . . . . Clara's cause of death says: influenza, pneumonia, with the secondary cause: child birth.
Nadine married Robert C. Gardner in 1917 but had not had any children that I know of yet.
This got me digging, where did H.C. go? Looking through old Fort Gibson newspapers, I found this notice - March 23, 1916
This little notice tells me so much - they had lived in the Muskogee area for the past 15 years. He died of pneumonia (probably the beginning of that horrible pandemic that took his daughter's life), he left five daughters: Cecil (who had been listed as a son and daughter on different census records), Nadine, Mrs. James Adair, and the two younger girls, who are Hazel and Hattie. Two sons Harry and Charley. This again, verifies the information I had tracked down, hoping it was our Clara's family.
From here I have not been able to find anything specific on Mary J. Harry, Charley, and Cecil all lived together until 1933 when Cecil is committed to a hospital for the insane. The Eastern Oklahoma State Hospital at Vinita. She was diagnosed as having delusional persecution disorder, where the person believes they are being slandered, mistreated, drugged, spied on etc. In those papers it indicates her father died at age 56 of pneumonia (would have made him born in 1860) and her mother died at "47 cardiac." I've basically given up on H.C.'s age - he's worse than a woman ;-) But I am going to continue looking into Mary passing at age 47 to see if there is anything to verify this. Cecile was released and living on her own again by 1940 in Tulsa and working as a "presser" in a local laundry business.
1. Cecile Buschjost (in Zola's handwriting on back of photo). Ideas on how to pronounce her name? Suh-seal? It looks like the male spelling of See-Sul?
2. Harry married Enid Kincaid in 1933. World War II registration records give the following info on Harry, Height: 5'8" Weight: 170 Hair: Black/Brown Eyes: Grey Build: Tall/Slender Complexion: Dark
3. Marvin Lawing and Charley Buschjost
An interesting note on this picture is for years I had no idea who Marvin Lawing was. When I found the name of Clara's mother as Mary Jane Lawing with a brother Marvin it clicked. Marvin would be the Clara's uncle or Lester's great uncle. One more piece to help confirm we had the right information. Charley's World War II enlistment records when he was 38 years old indicate he was 5'7" and 160 pounds.
4. Hattie Buschjost Stock (L) and Hazel Buschjost Long (R)
Love you fam.
No comments:
Post a Comment