Silas Eugene Bushong was born the son of Virginia adventurer, true cowboy, and early Texas settler Luther David Bushong and his wife Martha Jane CRAWFORD Bushong. He grew up with his siblings along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, TX.
Of age, Silas met and married Rose C. DAVIS Bushong in Kerr Co, TX in the year 1900. The young couple soon were blessed with two young daughters. The family migrated west to eventually settle in El Paso, TX just after 1910. After losing their 2nd daughter Dollie to a lifelong heart condition at the age of 13, the couple decided to have another child and so Ella Mae Bushong was born into this world the following year.
The El Paso Times
El Paso, Texas
Friday, 8 August 1941
Page 2
"BUSHONG RITES SET FOR TODAY
Funeral services for Silas E. Bushong, 61, Milner Hotel, will be held in the Martin Mortuary Chapel at 3 p. m. Friday with Rev. Martin L.. Sims officiating. He was a retired Southern Pacific Railroad Conductor. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Five Points Masonic Lodge No. 1137 officiating at the grave. Pallbearers, all members of the Order of Railway Conductors, of which Mr. Bushong was a member, will be Leon F. Abbott, A. C. Kinsey, R. E. Mounts, L. O. Fall, W. H. Prickett, and C. A. Lewis."
Of age, Silas met and married Rose C. DAVIS Bushong in Kerr Co, TX in the year 1900. The young couple soon were blessed with two young daughters. The family migrated west to eventually settle in El Paso, TX just after 1910. After losing their 2nd daughter Dollie to a lifelong heart condition at the age of 13, the couple decided to have another child and so Ella Mae Bushong was born into this world the following year.
The El Paso Times
El Paso, Texas
Friday, 8 August 1941
Page 2
"BUSHONG RITES SET FOR TODAY
Funeral services for Silas E. Bushong, 61, Milner Hotel, will be held in the Martin Mortuary Chapel at 3 p. m. Friday with Rev. Martin L.. Sims officiating. He was a retired Southern Pacific Railroad Conductor. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Five Points Masonic Lodge No. 1137 officiating at the grave. Pallbearers, all members of the Order of Railway Conductors, of which Mr. Bushong was a member, will be Leon F. Abbott, A. C. Kinsey, R. E. Mounts, L. O. Fall, W. H. Prickett, and C. A. Lewis."
Silas Eugene Bushong was born the son of Virginia adventurer, true cowboy, and early Texas settler Luther David Bushong and his wife Martha Jane CRAWFORD Bushong. He grew up with his siblings along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, TX.
Of age, Silas met and married Rose C. DAVIS Bushong in Kerr Co, TX in the year 1900. The young couple soon were blessed with two young daughters. The family migrated west to eventually settle in El Paso, TX just after 1910. After losing their 2nd daughter Dollie to a lifelong heart condition at the age of 13, the couple decided to have another child and so Ella Mae Bushong was born into this world the following year.
The El Paso Times
El Paso, Texas
Friday, 8 August 1941
Page 2
"BUSHONG RITES SET FOR TODAY
Funeral services for Silas E. Bushong, 61, Milner Hotel, will be held in the Martin Mortuary Chapel at 3 p. m. Friday with Rev. Martin L.. Sims officiating. He was a retired Southern Pacific Railroad Conductor. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Five Points Masonic Lodge No. 1137 officiating at the grave. Pallbearers, all members of the Order of Railway Conductors, of which Mr. Bushong was a member, will be Leon F. Abbott, A. C. Kinsey, R. E. Mounts, L. O. Fall, W. H. Prickett, and C. A. Lewis."
Of age, Silas met and married Rose C. DAVIS Bushong in Kerr Co, TX in the year 1900. The young couple soon were blessed with two young daughters. The family migrated west to eventually settle in El Paso, TX just after 1910. After losing their 2nd daughter Dollie to a lifelong heart condition at the age of 13, the couple decided to have another child and so Ella Mae Bushong was born into this world the following year.
The El Paso Times
El Paso, Texas
Friday, 8 August 1941
Page 2
"BUSHONG RITES SET FOR TODAY
Funeral services for Silas E. Bushong, 61, Milner Hotel, will be held in the Martin Mortuary Chapel at 3 p. m. Friday with Rev. Martin L.. Sims officiating. He was a retired Southern Pacific Railroad Conductor. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Five Points Masonic Lodge No. 1137 officiating at the grave. Pallbearers, all members of the Order of Railway Conductors, of which Mr. Bushong was a member, will be Leon F. Abbott, A. C. Kinsey, R. E. Mounts, L. O. Fall, W. H. Prickett, and C. A. Lewis."
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SILAS E.
1880-1941
ROSE C.
1880-1958
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