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1870 Grant Dist, Jackson, WV # 298
Adolphus 36 NY
Catherine E 22
Alice 3
Emma 1
1880 Ravenswood, Jackson, WV # 4
DeBussey, A 47 NY Eng Eng
Cathorin 35 VA N Va
Alice 13 da WV
Emma 11 da WV
Clara 9 da WV
Virginia 7 da WV
Sarah 5 da WV
Annie 3 da WV
Ella 8/12 Sept da WV
1900 Ravenswood Dist, Jackson county WV
Adolphus Debussey 3/1834 m 35y NY ENG ENG
Katherine 7/1845 11-7 VA VA VA
Clara 12/1870
Annie 8/1877
Ella 9/1879
W R son 2/1882
Florence 4/1884
Mary 7/1886
1910 Jackson Co Ravenswodd Dist
Adolphus 76 m 45y
Catherine E 65, 11-7 WV NH WV
Anna 32
Florence 26
Maude 23
Staats, Isaac C 62 m 20y laborer
1920 Jackson co WV Ravenswood Town
DeBussey, Robert A 85 NY
Kathryn 74
Anna 42
DeBussey Cemetery, Sherman
Robert, Catherine, Sarah, Emma, Clarence, Henrietta
Hardesty's History of Jackson County
Ravenswood District
Robert A. DeBUSSEY- was born March 14, 1834, in New York City, but he grew to manhood among the people of Virginia, his parents, Thomas and Sarah (Evans) DeBussey settling with him in Jackson county when he was four years old. In this county he enlisted in 1861, in Company F, 4th Virginia Infantry, serving eighteen months as a private, and the remainder of his three years as a member of the regimental band. In Jackson county, January 26, 1865, he was joined in wedlock with Catherine E. Palmer, who was born in this county, July 24, 1845. Their living children, all residing at home are seven: Alice, born February 27, 1867; Clarica, December 10, 1870; Henrietta V., February 17, 1873; Sarah, May 16, 1875; Annie, August 6, 1877; Ella, September 16, 1879; Herbert R., February 23, 1882; They have lost one son and one daughter: Clarence, born in Illinois, November 13, 1865, and Emma, born March 18, 1869; Clarence died in Jackson county, April 21,1866, and Emma on the 2nd of October, 1881, in this county. Mr. DeBussey's wife is a daughter Herbert R. and Susannah (Neselroad) Palmer. Mr. DeBussey lived for a time in Illinois, leaving here October 16, 1865, and returning April 9, 1866. He is now a prosperous farmer of Grant district, receiving his mail at Ravenswood, Jackson county, West Virginia.
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