Thomas Levi Busby

Brief Life History of Thomas Levi

When Thomas Levi Busby was born on 10 July 1868, in Jasper, Missouri, United States, his father, William Flowers Busby, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Lucinda Crow, was 22. He married Dora Etta Estey on 5 February 1896, in Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sheridan Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. He died on 1 December 1944, in Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Jasper, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Levi Busby
1868–1944
Dora Etta Estey
1875–1958
Marriage: 5 February 1896
William Estey Busby
1896–1983
Hazel Pearl Busby
1900–1978
Ralph C Busby
1902–1905
Jewel F. Busby
1905–1989
Lucille May Busby
1910–1997
Merle M Busby
1911–
Dorothy Allene Busby
1916–2008

Sources (14)

  • Thomas L Busby in household of William F Busby, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Levi Busby - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Thomas Levi Busby (Twin)
  • T L Busby, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Busby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush, shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + ‘homestead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Bushby in Leicestershire.

Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Busby in Carmunnock (Renfrewshire).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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