the bush family
John and Rebecca Bush brought their family to the Table Rock area in the 1800s. In an 1880 special of Civil War veterans, he is listed with the area veterans as being in Humboldt. The other veterans are the page are from Table Rock, leading one to one whether he may have been just across the county line.
the family of john & rebecca bush
. John & Rebecca Neptune Bush with their children. In back are Lottie Jane Horton, Ella Skillett, Mattie Martin, and in front is Laura Widdifield. Photo shared by descendant of their daughter Lottie, Susan Gavitt Horton
Photo 8019
Sisters Lottie Bush Horton and Laura Bush Widdifield, shared by Lottie's descendant, Susan Gavitt Horton.
Photo 8020
Lottie Bush Horton with Rebecca & John Bush, shared by Lottie's descendant Susan Gavitt Horton.
Photo 8021
Ella Bush Skillet with her husband Jasper -- looks like a birthday cake! Photo 2912, shared by Ella's great grandson Richard Binder; Ella was the grandma of Richard's mom Norma Wopata Binder.
john bush, 36th illinois infantry during the civil war
John Bush's pension index card. It shows that he applied for an "invalid" (disability) pension, which he was granted, and that Rebecca thereafter was granted a widows pension.
Page 3 of the 1880 special schedule of surviving soldiers & widows lists John Bush as then connected to Humboldt
John Bush appears in the records of Table Rock's G.A.R. Post as the President in June 1902 and as "S.M." in June 1905 and June 1906.
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December 15, 1931 socials in the Argus included the Bush family
in the table rock cemetery are John & rebecca, and their daughters lottie (with her husband sid horton) and ella (with her husband jasper skillet)
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the bush country school
Old country school District 40 was known as the Bush School. Usually a school was informally known by the name of a family who had many children in the school in its early days, sometimes by the name of the family who owned the land the school was on. We're not sure why District 40 was bush school. This is Photo 261, an undated photograph of the students at the school one year.
17 names are given, but there are 18 people in the picture! This is the best guess as to the correct identities: It leaves a girl in the front row as unknown. It is based on the order of names with gender (girl boy, etc).
Back row: ____ Metz, Eva Strater, Anna Deubelbeiss (teacher), George Swallam, Emile Pohlman, Mae Skillet, Marbaret Deubelbeiss, and Emma Skillet Wren.
Front row: Vera Buchales Metz, Elma Burow, Dennis Skillet, Hazel Skillet Huert, Carl Burow, John Deubelbeiss, _____ Metz, Ernest Gutzmer, and Louise Antholz
17 names are given, but there are 18 people in the picture! This is the best guess as to the correct identities: It leaves a girl in the front row as unknown. It is based on the order of names with gender (girl boy, etc).
Back row: ____ Metz, Eva Strater, Anna Deubelbeiss (teacher), George Swallam, Emile Pohlman, Mae Skillet, Marbaret Deubelbeiss, and Emma Skillet Wren.
Front row: Vera Buchales Metz, Elma Burow, Dennis Skillet, Hazel Skillet Huert, Carl Burow, John Deubelbeiss, _____ Metz, Ernest Gutzmer, and Louise Antholz
the bush school in 2017; after it was closed then sold, the new owner moved it to a different location, still in the northeast part of the county
Front of the school, entry on the left
Back of the school