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My ancester, Johann Henrich Busch, born 1815 in Herford, Westfalen, Prussia emigrated with his wife and 3 children in 1854. They sailed from Bremen on the ship Ernst Moritz Arndt arriving at New Orleans October 1854. They travelled up the Mississippi to Burlington, Iowa and ultimately settled across the river in Oquawka, Illinois. He died in 1882.
Family tradition always held that there was a link with the famous Busch family. Our Busch family was even said to have stock in the company!!! But none of that was ever proved to be true. "John Henry" Bush worked as a wagonmaker, carpenter, & joiner. He owned several properties in Illinois and Iowa. They attended a German Lutheran Church in Burlington and later Oquawka.
His wife, Elizabeth Henrietta, was born in Prussia in 1813.
She died in Oquawka in 1895.
The children who emigrated with them are as follows:
Charles "Carl" born abt 1843, died before 1882(he may have lived in St Louis as an adult) & was survived by his children: Henry Busch (of St Louis), Phoebe Kilshaw of Grafton, Illinois, and Maude Whack of Lincoln, Illinois.
Frederick "Theodore": 1846-1928. Was a Civil War vet. Was briefly married & divorced. No children, resided in Oquawka, Illinois. Raised his orphaned neice (see below).
Sophia "Henrietta": 1852-1892. Married Wilhelm Kloene in Burlington, Iowa. She owned property there and later in Oquawka, Illinois. Louisa Henrietta Sophia "Lizzie" Kloene was her only child born in 1883.
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