Re: Algoria Buster & James C. Crosby
Click this link for her genealogy:
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Don't know much about here except she married twice; James C. Crosby and also Lewis Crump.Her grandparents are the intersting folks.
nformation from National Archives Military Records Co. G Crawford's Ark Calvary Appears on Company Muster Roll for Jan and Fed 1864 Enlisted: Dec 9, 1863 Where: Saline By Whom: Col Crawford Period: 12 months Age: 52 years. The family moved from Tennessee to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1854, and resided there until the beginning of the Civil War.John Henry Buster served two years in the rebel army, and died of food poisoning at some place unknown in the old Indian Territory.The army's report of his death was as follows:The rebel army was sorely pressed by the northern army near Little Rock, and to avoid capture, his regiment left Arkansas, and fled into the then uninhabited Indian Territory.Except for the wild game that was killed and eaten , they were without food for weeks.John Henry Buster and two comrades died from eating wild haws, a small cherry-sized fruit that grows near the small streams in eastern Oklahoma. Mary Ellen, his wife, three sons, Sam, Green and Joe Buster, and Prudence Buster moved to Bell County, in 1868, and settled at Reeds Lake, about ten miles south of Temple, Texas.
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Jack