GEORGE BUSHMAN
was born in Coleta, Whiteside county, Ill., February 1, 1877 and died at his home in Milledgeville, Ill.,
April 23, 1910, aged 33 years, 2 months and 24 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Peugh February 2, 1897.
One year later he united with the Christian church at Coleta and ever remained a faithful member. About six years ago he was compelled to give up farming because of poor health which was caused by tuberculosis and in the summer time he slept in a tent. Besides his wife, he leaves to mourn his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bushman, and six brothers, Herschel, of Sioux City, Iowa, Cyrus, Coleta; Aaron, Nelson, William and Lloyd, of this place. The funeral services were conducted by the Coleta pastor and interment made in the Brethren cemetery.
Contributed by Karen Fyock
The funeral services over the remains of George Bushman were held here this morning [04/26/1910] at
10 o’clock and the remains were interred in Bethel cemetery. Mr. Bushman was forty years of age and was born
and raised in this city. He is survived by his wife and several brothers and sisters.
Contributed by Larry Reynolds/Sterling Gazette 26 April 1910
HOMER G. BUSHMAN
86, 1210 14th Ave., Sterling, died Tuesday evening in Community General Hospital following a short illness. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Allen Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Chakour, pastor of the Fourth Street United Methodist Church, Sterling, officiating. Burial will be in the Bethel Cemetery, Milledgeville. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 until 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Bushman was born in Coleta on July 7, 1883, the son of Colonel and Ella Scovill Bushman. He was united in marriage to Margaret Boughman in 1912, who preceded him in death in 1939. He resided in Whiteside County all of his life, attending Brown's Business College and farming. He was in the construction business and had helped build Camp Grant. For the past 25 years he had been associated with his son, Lyle, in this same business. He was a member of the Fourth Street United Methodist church.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. G. E. (Gertrude) Kunz of Plainview, N.Y.; one son, Lyle H Bushman, with whom he made his home; five grandchildren; three sisters, Miss Bessie Bushman and Mrs. Beulah Deets, both of Sterling; and Mrs. Grace Jones of Rockford; several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Margaret; one sister, Tessie in infancy; and three brothers, Earl, Raymond and Charles.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois October 22, 1969 - Wednesday, pg 2
ISAAC BUSHMAN
- Isaac Bushman, Esq., a brother of David Bushman, of this town, died at his home at Wakeeney, Kansas, Oct. 29. Mr. Bushman is well known to all our older citizens.
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JOSEPH S. BUSHMAN
- was born Oct. 27th 1849, near Milledgeville, Carroll county, Ill., and died at Coleta, Friday afternoon at 12:15, Feb. 21, 1908, aged fifty-eight years, three months and twenty-four days. Mr. Bushman was a great sufferer all his life with ulcers of the stomach. At times during his life he enjoyed fairly good health, but it was only for very short periods of time that he was entirely free from pain. During the past winter he suffer especially from pain, but was seldom bedfast, and was able to attend to his duties as postmaster most of the time. Two weeks ago, while assisting in distributing the mail, he was taken suddenly very ill, and in a short time suffered tow hemorrhages of the stomach. These made him very weak and when again he was seized with two more hemmorrhages, it became apparent that he could not withstand the loss of so much blood. Everything possible was done for his relief, and the last two or three days, he said he was freer from pain than he had been in forty years. He was ready and anxious to depart, saying all was well with his soul and enjoining friends and relatives to stand firm in the faith of Jesus Christ and one day meet him in glory. Mr. Cushman was a man of exceptional qualities, ever patient, never complaining, always ready to assist others in any way he could, he endeared himself to all those with whom he came in contact. He was a good husband, a loving father, and a fender guardian of his little grandchildren of whom he thought so much. He was appointed postmaster in Coleta three years ago and has served the public in the best possible manner. He was married to Rebecca Jane Hurless May 19, 1875. To this union there were born one son and two daughters, Frank Bushman of Coleta, Mrs. Lovina Eastabrooks of East Dubuque, and Miss Rachel who resides at home. All these, with four grandchildren, Gerald LeRoy Eastabrooks, Harold Joseph Eastabrooks, Joseph Menton and Wilfred Elmo Bushman, survive. His mother died thirty-four years ago. One brother, Nelson, preceded him in
death twenty-one years ago. There are living three brothers Charles of Milledgeville, Colonel and Harlem of Coleta and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Nance. He is also survived by his step mother, Mrs. Rachel Bushman, and step sister, Mrs. Anna Kline. The funeral services were held Sunday morning in the Radical U. B. church, and the large concourse of sorrowing friends who attended showed the esteem which was held for the deceased in this community Rev. J. A. F. King, assisted by Rev. A. X. Harrison, conducted the services. The pall bearers, chosen by the deceased, before his death, were his brothers, Charles, Colonel and Harlem Bushman and brothers in law, Stanton Nance Benjamin Kline and David Proctor. There were many beautiful flowers given by friends. One piece given by the M. W. A. was a beautiful anchor of white and pink carnations. Interment was made in Bethel cemetery. We mourn for him, our heats are lonely, but our loss is his gain. If faithful we shall some day meet again.
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LYLE BUSHMAN
- 85, of Sterling, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, at CGH Medical Center. He was a self-employed contractor in the local area. Mr. Bushman was born July 20, 1922, in Coleta, the son of Homer G. and Minnie M. (Boughmon) Bushman. He married Bernice Honberger on Feb. 10, 1946, in Chadwick. He served in the Army Air Corps, as a C-47 pilot from 1942-1945 retiring, July 20, 1982, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Sterling. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Susan (Lynn) Hunt, of Todd, N.C., and Karen (Kerry) McMahon, of Springfield; a son, Brad Bushman, of Bloomington; a sister, Trudy Kunz of Gainesville, Fla.; five grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The funeral is at 10 a.m. Monday at Schilling Funeral Home, Sterling, with the Rev. Nancy Dvorachek, pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church, Sterling, officiating. Burial is at Fairhaven Township Cemetery, Chadwick. Visitation is from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established.
Contributed by Margaret Mangers Published on: Saturday, December 22, 2007 Sterling Gazette Lyle Bushman
NELSON BUSHMAN
- On Tuesday morning, July 27, 1886, the life work of Nelson Bushman was completed, and his spirit passed out into the unknown beyond. He was in the 26th year of his age. For several months previous to his death, his friends realized that he was in the grasp of that grim destroyer, consumption. Less than two months ago, his physician at Davis Junction advised him to return home to Coleta, and since that time all that loving friends could do to avert the approaching end was done, but the hand of death could not be stayed. He is cut down in the early prime of life, and a loving wife and little daughter are left uncomforted. Nelson Bushman was born and raised near Coleta. In 1882 he was married to Miss Carrie Hendricks, daughter of L. C. Hendrick's of this place. They had two children; one, the youngest and a little girl, died last winter. In 1884 he moved to Davis Junction, Ill., and went into business at which he was quite successful. He was a member of Milledgeville M. E. church and of a Masonic lodge at Leaf River. The funeral services were held at Coleta yesterday at 10 o'clock by Rev. Satterfield, and the remains interred at the Bethel Baptist cemetery. The afflicted wife and family have the sympathy and condolence of many friends in their sad affliction. To them in their hour of sorrow and tribulation is offered the consoling thought that Mr. Bushman lived the life of a christian and died firm in the faith of a blessed immortality.
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CLYDE V. BUTTERBAUGH
, 45, Carroll County farmer and deacon in the Christian church at Lanark, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at his home in Freedom township shortly after taking hay fever vaccine. Corner J. B. Schreiter, Savanna, who conducted an inquiry, reported that reaction to the vaccine caused the death of the farmer who had been taking the remedy in a series of treatments. Members of Butterbaugh's family expressed belief he accidentally took an overdose of the medicine. A lifelong resident of Freedom township, he was born Jan. 29, 1901, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Butterbaugh, on a farm near his late home. He attended rural school and was graduated from Lanark high in 1919. Active in farm affairs, he was a director of the Carroll County Farm bureau at the time of his death. Survivors are his widow, the former Elma Schelling of Leaf River, whom he married in June, 1930; two sons, Robert and James, and a daughter, Barbara, at home; two brothers, Homer of Kenosha, Wis., and Harold, stationed in England with the finance branch of the army; and one sister, Mrs. Lester Kruse, Lanark. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Christian church. Rev. Merle Hawbecker, pastor of the Cherry Grove Church of the Brethren, assisted by Rev. E. Y Knapp, will officiate and burial will be made in the Lanark cemetery.
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HARRY BUTTERBAUGH
, 93, area farmer, passed away at The Johnson Nursing Home, Shannon Sunday, Sept. 26. He was born Nov. 2, 1871 in Dallas Center, Iowa, the son of Martin and Barbara Wolf Butterbaugh. They moved to the Lanark area when he was a child. He married Emma Miller, Dec. 15, 1897. She passed away in October, 1963. He was a member of the Cherry Grove Church of the Brethren. He is survived by two sons, Homer, Kenosha, Wis. Harold, Council Bluffs, Iowa; one daughter, Mrs. Doris Kruse, Walworth Nursing Home; one sister, Mrs. Kirby Thomas, Lanark; nine grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren. Besides his wife he was preceded in death by two brothers and one son Clyde. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Frank Funeral Home, Lanark, with the Rev. Edwin Rodebaugh officiating. Burial will be in Lanark Cemetery.
Contributed by Larry Reynolds Sterling Daily Gazette, September 27, 1965, page 2, column 3.
HAROLD BUXTON
, 69, of Clinton, Iowa, formerly of Mount Carroll, died Saturday at Mercy Hospital in Clinton. (The Social Security Death Index gives the date as April 1982.) Born Aug. 13, 1912 in Rockford, he was the son of Roy and Anna (Flink) Buxton. He married Edna Rogers Feb. 27, 1936 in Mount Carroll. Surviving are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Ruby (Harlan) Hass of DeWitt, Iowa and Mrs. Julia (Neil) Honzenga of Clinton; and seven grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Service will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Frank Funeral Home in Mount Carroll with the Rev. David Hensely, pastor of Community Reformed Church in Clinton officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
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