When Retha May Bushong was born on 7 December 1914, in Barren Fork Township, Ozark, Missouri, United States, her father, Greenville Warner Bushong, was 32 and her mother, Cora Alice Barker, was 34. She lived in Stone, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Reeds Spring, Stone, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 25 November 2007, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 92.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Americanized form of German Boschung, a surname which is very rare in Germany and only slightly more frequent in France, from where it came to the US; it may be a Germanized form of French Bouchon .
Americanized form of German Buschong, a variant of Buschang, which is of Slavic origin (see Bushek ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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