Brief Life History of Oscar Lee
When Oscar Lee Bush Sr. was born in 1928, in Noxubee, Mississippi, United States, his father, Henry Buckhalter, was 15 and his mother, Callie Hooper (Bush), was 13. He had at least 1 daughter with Armazer Easterling. He lived in Beat 1, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died in 2019, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91.
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- Oscar Lee Buckhalter, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1939 · First Oil Well in Mississippi Located in Yazoo County
Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.
1953
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law recognizing that Ohio was admitted into the Union, since it had previously slipped through the cracks. The official date of admittance was agreed upon as March 1, 1803, ratified as of May 19, 1953.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch .
Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš, Búš (see Bus ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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