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| The genealogy presented here is my Bussey direct line from
my gg grandmother (Harriet Anne Bussey) back to the ca 1635 arrival
in America of George Bussey. While the siblings of the family
members that compose my direct line are presented, their wives
and descendants are not. For the decendants of Elijah Cabaniss
and Harriet Anne Bussey, open the Cabaniss
family history file. This genealogy repeatedly calls on Lynn Bussey Guittard's 1979 work, The Bussey Family Genealogy. I have done very little original work and hope that others seeing this will notify me of errors and omissions. I began looking at the Bussey line whenever I hit a snag in my work on the Cabaniss line. I knew that my gg grandfather married a Bussey and that the Bussey and Cabaniss families had been close for many years, but I had never taken the time to learn much of anything about the line. I've always been impressed that my Cabaniss line went back to the colonial days (1700), and now I find that my Bussey line goes back even further (ca 1635). After his service in the War of 1812, my gg grandfather, Elijah Cabaniss, and his thought-to-be comrade in arms, Hezekiah Bussey, left Georgia for Clarke County, AL. Hezekiah was Elijah's senior by fourteen years and, by then, married (to Rebecca Shaw) with about six or seven children, the youngest being Harriet Anne Bussey (b. 1822, SC). Knowing that Elijah's War of 1812 service ended in May 1815, Elijah's arrival in Clarke County is thought to have been been after that date and before April 1819. Page 106 of Old St. Stephen's Land Office Records & American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. I, 1768-1888, reports an 27 April 1819 land transaction in Clarke County, AL, involving Elijah. If family legend holds, Hezekiah Bussey arrived in Clarke County in the same time frame. (A cautionary aside, however, needs to be highlighted; while I've found Elijah on Clarke County's 1830 census, I've yet to find Hezekiah Bussey on any 1830 census. Also, Hezekiah's daughter, Harriet Anne Bussey, was born in SC in 1822, which is about the time when Hezekiah and his family should have been in Clarke County, AL. Also, the Clarke County, AL, land records that place Elijah Cabaniss in Clarke County by 27 April 1819 have yet to yield a Hezekiah Bussey land transaction before 1840, but I'm not through looking.) Family legend has it that sometime in late 1839 or early 1840, Hezekiah Bussey and family, together with Hezekiah's daughter Rhoda C. Bussey and her husband, and Elijah and his wife began their journey to Union County, AR. Family legend is supported by the 1840 census of Caldwell Parish, LA, which lists these three families. By 1845 Elijah's wife had died. Elijah's second marriage was to one of Hezekiah Bussey's daughters, Harriet Anne Bussey. Thus the Cabaniss' tie to the Busseys. Arriving in America about 1635 was immigrant George Bussey. It is thought that his wife Ann accompanied George. George and Ann ended up settling in Maryland, starting this most interesting line; a line packed with early patriots and loaded with Baptist ministers. While I haven't traced each of them to families, the DAR lists eleven Busseys in their index of patriots. The given names of these Busseys look to be the very common Bussey given names of the era. One of them, Hezekiah Bussey, is my gggg grandfather (Harriet Anne Bussey's grandfather). The early Busseys were deeply involved with the rapidly expanding Baptist Church as it spread through South Carolina and Georgia, with many of the Busseys becoming Baptist ministers. This is my Bussey line as I understand it. If you can add to it, please let me know. In particular I'm interested in the family members of Hezekiah Bussey, Elijah's traveling companion. A gedcom file for Macintosh (created using Gedcom 5.5) of the genealogy presented is available for downloading here. A gedcom for Windows (created using Gedcom 5.5) is here. |
| B | BUSSEY |
| C | CABANISS, COLYER OR COLTIER |
| H | HARRY, HAYS OR HAYES |
| K | KEENE |
| S | SHAW |
| W | WILLIAMS |
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