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Below are some questions that we still don't have answer's for:
In the journey that the "Traveling Church" made from Orange Co., VA to Clark Co. KY (Ft. Boonesborough) they made a stop for three years "in the Holston" or "on the Holston" settlement. We know that this place is in present day Washington Co., VA and that it is either in Abingdon or in the town of Holston which is about 10 miles north of Abingdon, VA.
In all of the documentation they talk about "Wolf Hills" which is what Abingdon was called in the 1777 and they also mention the traveler's staying at "Blacks Fort". There is a historic marker for "Blacks Fort" in downtown Abingdon. In the church records it states "December 1780, moved to Holston". People in the town of Holston tell us that in the 1780's there was a settlement there.
FACT: Josiah Bush died there in 1781. The cemetery in Abingdon is very very old and has many headstones from that time but hardly any are readable.
?? Where is Josiah Bush buried
Valentine Bush had a son named George Bush. George was born in 1838 and in 1866 at the age of 28 he was shot and killed. The story is that he was sitting on his horse while it was drinking from Amos's branch (creek) right next to his father's grist mill when an "unknown assassin" shot and killed him and stole his horse. Valentine heard the shot and found his son lying dead in the water.
We have several theories:
?? The assassin was either a Union or Confederate soldier returning home on foot and wanted the horse.
?? George had an enemy for one reason or another
?? It was just a random act of violence
One other part of the story is that as soon as this happened, Valentine sent his son, Tivas Bush, on horseback, alone, to Carter Co., KY to an area in or near Willard, KY. At that time Tivas would have been 20 years old. Why would Valentine send him away, was Tivas involved?? Or had he possibly been threatened also or possibly he had been the intended victim?? Valentine ran three mills in Nicklesville and he had a total of 7 sons, after the death of George he had only 6. It is known that most if not all of them worked at the mills. Why would he send another son away when he probably needed all the help he could get at the mills??
?? Who shot George and why??
?? Why is George buried in the opposite direction in the Nicklesville Cemetery?? His headstone reads "Felled by the hand of an unknown assissin" Was he buried facing west because of the was he died??
?? Why did Valentine send Tivas away??
In a book titled "Adventures of Purse and Persons" there is a statement that reads:
"John Bush, having two howses paid for before the said Governor Yeardley came in was in like manner turned out and Capt. Nuce put in possession of the same by Sir George Yeardley, contrary to all right and equity whereby he lost all his goods and his wife in that extreamity, miscarried with child. The brother of the said John Bush, being then dead in the howse and his wife great with child was likewise turned out."
?? What was John Bush's brothers name?? His sister in law was "great with child", who is this child?? Did John adopt the child as his own since his wife miscarried?? Help!!!
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