BETHANY ECHO DEC 6/1918
SAMUEL S. BUSHERT WAS BORN IN LANCASTER, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO, AUG. 26, 1827 AND DIED IN BETHANY, NOV. 29, 1918. HE WAS MARRIED TO NANCY RARRICK IN OHIO ON NOV. 13, 1850 BY REV. SPANGLER. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN 13 CHILDREN, MARY M. WHO DIED IN INFANCY, GEORGE A. OF CALIFORNIA, SARAH E. SCOTT OF LAKE CITY, DELILAH A. DOWERS OF BETHANY, CORA B. DOWERS OF SULLIVAN, PERRY J OF BETHANY, WILLIAM, WHO DIED AT AGE 11, OLIVER G. OF CHAMPAIGN, LAURA BOLICK OF HIGHT, ERNEST W. AND JONATHAN. R BOTH DIED WHEN QUITE YOUNG, EDWARD A. WHO DIED ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO AND NANNIE M. CULLEN OF CHAMPAIGN. HIS WIFE DIED OCT. 6, 1914.
MR. BUSHERT ALSO LEAVES 48 GRANDCHILDREN, 43 GREAT GRANCHILDREN, 1 GREATGREAT GRANDCHILD, 2 SISTERS, MRS. ELIZABETH THARP OF LIMA, OHIO AND MRS. ELIZA GOETZ OF BETHANY.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD IN THE METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 OCLOCK AND REV. E. J. WILLIAMS DELIVERED THE SERMON. THE MUSIC WAS FURNISHED BY MR. AND MRS. T. W. ABRAMS, MRS. C. O. TOHILL AND A. A. LIVESEY. THE PALLBEARERS WERE EARL BUSHERT, HAROLDAND LESTER BUSHERT, ALBERT AND ARTHUR DOWERS AND Z. A. BOLICK.
Family Members
Parents
Jacob Bushart
1795–1886
Mary Magdalena Crumrine Bushart
1795–1879
Spouse
Nancy Rarick Bushert
1831–1914
Siblings
John Bushart
1822–1903
William Henry Bushart
1824–1863
Elizabeth Eleanor Bushart Tharp
1829–1922
Sarah Ann Bushart Smutz
1831–1910
Pvt Jacob Bushert
1834–1862
Eliza Reed Bushart Goetz
1839–1929
Children
Nancy Mae Bushert Cullen
1878–1958
Jonathan R. Bushart
unknown–1872
