Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-11-09

Three of the five returned and are still
living, Lorenzo, Manscl and George.
The date of l.. W. Bush's enlistment
was Aug. 81, 1864, and he served UNI
til the close of the war. He was in
the battles Of Chaplin s Farm, Fort Gil
more and Fair Oaks (second.) He was
slightly wounded in the left leg at
Chaplin s Farm. On June ,, 1868, he
sustained a severe sunstroke and was
left on the field for dead, in the shade
of a tree, but that night he crawled
on his hands and knees two and a half
miles to camp. For a year after he
came home he was unable to do manual
labor, and he never has fully recovered
from the sunstroke.
At the evacuation of the city of
! Richmond the picket line of the 9th
/ Vermont were the first Union troops
into the city and Mr.. Bush was one
of the first four to step over into the
city limits. The rcgimental flag of the
9th Vermont was the first flag to be
raised at the General Lee mansion.
In lS6S69 Mr.. Bush built a saw and
grist mill in Brooklinc, on Grassy
brook. Frcshets washed away the dam
and tlumc six times, and in 1883 the
mill was carried off by the high water.
Since then Mr.. Bush has been engaged
in agricultural pursuits.
He has held nearly all the town offices
and for about 30 years he has been
a justice Of the peace, holding the
Office at the present time. He has been
clerk of the Baptist church the past
20 years. He has held all the Offices
in Birchard post, No. 65, G. A. r., of
Newfane, and for years he has been
secretary of Company X. For one term
he served as junior vice commander
of the department, of Vermont,
G. A. r., and he is now serving his
second term as department chaplain.
He represented Brookline in the lesis-
lature of 1900.
Mr.. Bush has four brothers living,
Mansel II. Bush of Dorchester, Mass,
George Bush of Somerville, Mass,
Frank +. Bush of Denver, Col, and
John A. Bush of Bellows Falls.
Mrs. Bush S maiden name was Anna
S. Crane. She was born in South New
fame Nov. %, lS4S, and was one of
three children of Hosea Ballou and
Mary l.. (BarretD Crane. She was
six months old when the family moved
TO Townshend, where her mother died.
Then, when she was Is years old, the
family moved to Brooklinc. She at
tended the district schools and Leland
4 Gray seminary. Townshcnd. Her
brother, Thomas Crane, died in Town.
shend about 10 years ago and her sis.
ter, Mrs. Mary +. Rogers, widow of
Frank Rogers, lives in Springfield.
Mass.
Mrs. Bush is treasurer of the Bap-
fist church and president of the La,
dies society of the church. She has
been Il member of the w. r. c. L. n
/ Newfane several years and is now sd
, pcrintendent of the soldiers and sail.
! ors department of the state organIza.
ton She is president of Bircha II
Woman's Relief Corps of Newfane, is
Ia member of the executive board on
the Vermont department and has nccn
chaplain of the Vermont department.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Bush were mait,al
in Brooklinc Nov. 6, 1867, by Rev.
! Charles Fanar, then pastor of the
Brookline Baptist church. They have
three sons, Herbert A. Bush, chief en-.
gineer in the United States Envelope
Co. $ factory in Springfield, Mass, Ed
ward l.. Bush, farmer who lives near
his parents in Broohline, and Gcorga
b. Bush of Newfane, mail carrier ON
r. +. D. route No. |. There are three
grandchildren, Grace, wife of Delard
Perry of Springfield (VtJ, daughter
of Edward l.. Bush, Henry +. Bush.
son Of Edward L., who lives at home,
and G. Barrett Bush of Nowfauc, son
of George b. Bush. There are also
two grandchildren, Anna Clara
and Nola Marion, daughters of Mrs.
Perry.