The son of English-born John E. & Irish-born E. Ann Manas [?] Bush, in 1860 he was a nailor living in Allens Fresh District, Charles County, Maryland. He stood 5’ 7” tall and had dark hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Ellicott’s Mills, Howard County, Maryland, September 16, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 25 as a private with the Patapsco Guards Infantry. During November or December 1863, he went home on furlough, and the army charged him $1.56 for transportation costs. He re-enlisted and mustered at Harrisburg February 22, 1864, as a Veteran Volunteer and again charged $5.53 for transportation, and honorably discharged with the unit August 17, 1865.
He married Anna E. Fry and fathered William T. (b. 09/04/70), John T. (b. 10/??/72), Mary E. (b.08/07/73 - married Charles H. Smith), Albert (b. @1876), Charles (b. @1877), Edith G. (b. @1879), George F. (b. 04/??/81), Harry F. (b. 05/??/83), and Martha E. (b. 06/??/88). By 1880, he was living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and late in life moved in with his grandson Edward G. Smith in Inglenook, Dauphin County.
Bush’s body was found in on the burned out stairway at his grandson’s home, having been shot four times with a .38 caliber revolver, two through the heart. The perpetrator was Edward Smith who then set his own house on fire in what appears to have been a foolish attempt to hide evidence of his misdeed. Rumors were that Smith had then gone off to commit suicide until authorities arrested him in Pittsburgh on an unrelated concealed weapons charge. Smith had more than $2,800 in his possession that he variously claimed his grandfather had given him and that he had sold a house. In January 1915, a Dauphin County court ruled Smith guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized him in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum. His final outcome is unknown to this researcher.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Ellicott’s Mills, Howard County, Maryland, September 16, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 25 as a private with the Patapsco Guards Infantry. During November or December 1863, he went home on furlough, and the army charged him $1.56 for transportation costs. He re-enlisted and mustered at Harrisburg February 22, 1864, as a Veteran Volunteer and again charged $5.53 for transportation, and honorably discharged with the unit August 17, 1865.
He married Anna E. Fry and fathered William T. (b. 09/04/70), John T. (b. 10/??/72), Mary E. (b.08/07/73 - married Charles H. Smith), Albert (b. @1876), Charles (b. @1877), Edith G. (b. @1879), George F. (b. 04/??/81), Harry F. (b. 05/??/83), and Martha E. (b. 06/??/88). By 1880, he was living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and late in life moved in with his grandson Edward G. Smith in Inglenook, Dauphin County.
Bush’s body was found in on the burned out stairway at his grandson’s home, having been shot four times with a .38 caliber revolver, two through the heart. The perpetrator was Edward Smith who then set his own house on fire in what appears to have been a foolish attempt to hide evidence of his misdeed. Rumors were that Smith had then gone off to commit suicide until authorities arrested him in Pittsburgh on an unrelated concealed weapons charge. Smith had more than $2,800 in his possession that he variously claimed his grandfather had given him and that he had sold a house. In January 1915, a Dauphin County court ruled Smith guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized him in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum. His final outcome is unknown to this researcher.
The son of English-born John E. & Irish-born E. Ann Manas [?] Bush, in 1860 he was a nailor living in Allens Fresh District, Charles County, Maryland. He stood 5’ 7” tall and had dark hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Ellicott’s Mills, Howard County, Maryland, September 16, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 25 as a private with the Patapsco Guards Infantry. During November or December 1863, he went home on furlough, and the army charged him $1.56 for transportation costs. He re-enlisted and mustered at Harrisburg February 22, 1864, as a Veteran Volunteer and again charged $5.53 for transportation, and honorably discharged with the unit August 17, 1865.
He married Anna E. Fry and fathered William T. (b. 09/04/70), John T. (b. 10/??/72), Mary E. (b.08/07/73 - married Charles H. Smith), Albert (b. @1876), Charles (b. @1877), Edith G. (b. @1879), George F. (b. 04/??/81), Harry F. (b. 05/??/83), and Martha E. (b. 06/??/88). By 1880, he was living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and late in life moved in with his grandson Edward G. Smith in Inglenook, Dauphin County.
Bush’s body was found in on the burned out stairway at his grandson’s home, having been shot four times with a .38 caliber revolver, two through the heart. The perpetrator was Edward Smith who then set his own house on fire in what appears to have been a foolish attempt to hide evidence of his misdeed. Rumors were that Smith had then gone off to commit suicide until authorities arrested him in Pittsburgh on an unrelated concealed weapons charge. Smith had more than $2,800 in his possession that he variously claimed his grandfather had given him and that he had sold a house. In January 1915, a Dauphin County court ruled Smith guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized him in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum. His final outcome is unknown to this researcher.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Ellicott’s Mills, Howard County, Maryland, September 16, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 25 as a private with the Patapsco Guards Infantry. During November or December 1863, he went home on furlough, and the army charged him $1.56 for transportation costs. He re-enlisted and mustered at Harrisburg February 22, 1864, as a Veteran Volunteer and again charged $5.53 for transportation, and honorably discharged with the unit August 17, 1865.
He married Anna E. Fry and fathered William T. (b. 09/04/70), John T. (b. 10/??/72), Mary E. (b.08/07/73 - married Charles H. Smith), Albert (b. @1876), Charles (b. @1877), Edith G. (b. @1879), George F. (b. 04/??/81), Harry F. (b. 05/??/83), and Martha E. (b. 06/??/88). By 1880, he was living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and late in life moved in with his grandson Edward G. Smith in Inglenook, Dauphin County.
Bush’s body was found in on the burned out stairway at his grandson’s home, having been shot four times with a .38 caliber revolver, two through the heart. The perpetrator was Edward Smith who then set his own house on fire in what appears to have been a foolish attempt to hide evidence of his misdeed. Rumors were that Smith had then gone off to commit suicide until authorities arrested him in Pittsburgh on an unrelated concealed weapons charge. Smith had more than $2,800 in his possession that he variously claimed his grandfather had given him and that he had sold a house. In January 1915, a Dauphin County court ruled Smith guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized him in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum. His final outcome is unknown to this researcher.
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