Fred Loren Buster first married Nancy Beatrice Wesley (Buster) Wooldridge in the spring of 1923. A front page article in the May 29 edition of the Adair County (Ky.) News stated that
"Last Thursday morning [May 24] Mr. Fred Buster, a young man well-known about Columbia, and Miss Beatrice Wesley, of Glenville, eloped to Birdstown (sic), Tenn., where they were married. They reached on their return late Thursday afternoon, and on Friday they came to Columbia and are now at the home of the groom's mother. Many good wishes have been expressed for the young couple."
Nancy Beatrice was born May 13, 1905 near Glensfork, Adair County, Ky. and died in Indianapolis, Ind., at 2 p.m., Saturday, October 29, 1949. She was the daughter of Joshua Wesley & Fannie Wilkinson Wesley . In 1910, she, her sister Nina, and her brother Virgil lived with their grandmother, Samantha Wesley. In 1920, she lived with her mother.
Fred & Beatrice's only child, daughter Kathleen Neva Buster (Charlton) appeared in the 1940 census as Kathleen Wooldridge along with her mother, step-father Tim Wooldridge, and her younger half-brothers, Bradley & Harold Wooldridge. Tim's previous marriage had ended in divorce in 1928.
After Beatrice's death, Tim married Ruby ------- .
Kathleen Buster married first Pierce Burton (born June 8, 1924, Monticello, Wayne Co., Ky - died __ March 1983, Marion Co., Ind.; no findagrave entry located), son of Ransom K. Burton (43227566) and Linnie E. McClain (43227528) on November 22, 1944, in Henry Co., Indiana. Kathleen later married Wilbur Charlton (findagrave entry not located).
Kathleen was born in 1924, the same year in which Fred and Beatrice divorced, according to information Fred gave for his second marriage.
Beatrice remarried in 1938 to Timothy B. Wooldridge . She stated she and Fred had divorced in 1926, but the 1924 date given above is more likely correct, as Fred married on December 18, 1925 in Clark County, Ind., this time to Elsie Chapman , born Adair County, Ky., a daughter of Nathan Buchannan "Buck" Chapman and Mary Moore Chapman . In addition to Bradley & Harold, named above, Beatrice and Tim also had a daughter, Patricia Wooldridge (Tedrick), who was born a few months after the 1940 census was taken. Bradley is still living, a resident of Simi Valley, Calif.
In April 1930, Fred & Elsie lived with his mother, one of his brothers and a sister, and a sister-in-law in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. In mid-April 1940, Fred, then divorced, still lived in Ann Arbor with his mother along with two sisters, a brother, a niece, and a nephew. By that time, Elsie had married Gerrit Kienstra and lived in Holland, Ottawa County, Mich.
(research done by Jim Garner)
"Last Thursday morning [May 24] Mr. Fred Buster, a young man well-known about Columbia, and Miss Beatrice Wesley, of Glenville, eloped to Birdstown (sic), Tenn., where they were married. They reached on their return late Thursday afternoon, and on Friday they came to Columbia and are now at the home of the groom's mother. Many good wishes have been expressed for the young couple."
Nancy Beatrice was born May 13, 1905 near Glensfork, Adair County, Ky. and died in Indianapolis, Ind., at 2 p.m., Saturday, October 29, 1949. She was the daughter of Joshua Wesley & Fannie Wilkinson Wesley . In 1910, she, her sister Nina, and her brother Virgil lived with their grandmother, Samantha Wesley. In 1920, she lived with her mother.
Fred & Beatrice's only child, daughter Kathleen Neva Buster (Charlton) appeared in the 1940 census as Kathleen Wooldridge along with her mother, step-father Tim Wooldridge, and her younger half-brothers, Bradley & Harold Wooldridge. Tim's previous marriage had ended in divorce in 1928.
After Beatrice's death, Tim married Ruby ------- .
Kathleen Buster married first Pierce Burton (born June 8, 1924, Monticello, Wayne Co., Ky - died __ March 1983, Marion Co., Ind.; no findagrave entry located), son of Ransom K. Burton (43227566) and Linnie E. McClain (43227528) on November 22, 1944, in Henry Co., Indiana. Kathleen later married Wilbur Charlton (findagrave entry not located).
Kathleen was born in 1924, the same year in which Fred and Beatrice divorced, according to information Fred gave for his second marriage.
Beatrice remarried in 1938 to Timothy B. Wooldridge . She stated she and Fred had divorced in 1926, but the 1924 date given above is more likely correct, as Fred married on December 18, 1925 in Clark County, Ind., this time to Elsie Chapman , born Adair County, Ky., a daughter of Nathan Buchannan "Buck" Chapman and Mary Moore Chapman . In addition to Bradley & Harold, named above, Beatrice and Tim also had a daughter, Patricia Wooldridge (Tedrick), who was born a few months after the 1940 census was taken. Bradley is still living, a resident of Simi Valley, Calif.
In April 1930, Fred & Elsie lived with his mother, one of his brothers and a sister, and a sister-in-law in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. In mid-April 1940, Fred, then divorced, still lived in Ann Arbor with his mother along with two sisters, a brother, a niece, and a nephew. By that time, Elsie had married Gerrit Kienstra and lived in Holland, Ottawa County, Mich.
(research done by Jim Garner)
Fred Loren Buster first married Nancy Beatrice Wesley (Buster) Wooldridge in the spring of 1923. A front page article in the May 29 edition of the Adair County (Ky.) News stated that
"Last Thursday morning [May 24] Mr. Fred Buster, a young man well-known about Columbia, and Miss Beatrice Wesley, of Glenville, eloped to Birdstown (sic), Tenn., where they were married. They reached on their return late Thursday afternoon, and on Friday they came to Columbia and are now at the home of the groom's mother. Many good wishes have been expressed for the young couple."
Nancy Beatrice was born May 13, 1905 near Glensfork, Adair County, Ky. and died in Indianapolis, Ind., at 2 p.m., Saturday, October 29, 1949. She was the daughter of Joshua Wesley & Fannie Wilkinson Wesley . In 1910, she, her sister Nina, and her brother Virgil lived with their grandmother, Samantha Wesley. In 1920, she lived with her mother.
Fred & Beatrice's only child, daughter Kathleen Neva Buster (Charlton) appeared in the 1940 census as Kathleen Wooldridge along with her mother, step-father Tim Wooldridge, and her younger half-brothers, Bradley & Harold Wooldridge. Tim's previous marriage had ended in divorce in 1928.
After Beatrice's death, Tim married Ruby ------- .
Kathleen Buster married first Pierce Burton (born June 8, 1924, Monticello, Wayne Co., Ky - died __ March 1983, Marion Co., Ind.; no findagrave entry located), son of Ransom K. Burton (43227566) and Linnie E. McClain (43227528) on November 22, 1944, in Henry Co., Indiana. Kathleen later married Wilbur Charlton (findagrave entry not located).
Kathleen was born in 1924, the same year in which Fred and Beatrice divorced, according to information Fred gave for his second marriage.
Beatrice remarried in 1938 to Timothy B. Wooldridge . She stated she and Fred had divorced in 1926, but the 1924 date given above is more likely correct, as Fred married on December 18, 1925 in Clark County, Ind., this time to Elsie Chapman , born Adair County, Ky., a daughter of Nathan Buchannan "Buck" Chapman and Mary Moore Chapman . In addition to Bradley & Harold, named above, Beatrice and Tim also had a daughter, Patricia Wooldridge (Tedrick), who was born a few months after the 1940 census was taken. Bradley is still living, a resident of Simi Valley, Calif.
In April 1930, Fred & Elsie lived with his mother, one of his brothers and a sister, and a sister-in-law in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. In mid-April 1940, Fred, then divorced, still lived in Ann Arbor with his mother along with two sisters, a brother, a niece, and a nephew. By that time, Elsie had married Gerrit Kienstra and lived in Holland, Ottawa County, Mich.
(research done by Jim Garner)
"Last Thursday morning [May 24] Mr. Fred Buster, a young man well-known about Columbia, and Miss Beatrice Wesley, of Glenville, eloped to Birdstown (sic), Tenn., where they were married. They reached on their return late Thursday afternoon, and on Friday they came to Columbia and are now at the home of the groom's mother. Many good wishes have been expressed for the young couple."
Nancy Beatrice was born May 13, 1905 near Glensfork, Adair County, Ky. and died in Indianapolis, Ind., at 2 p.m., Saturday, October 29, 1949. She was the daughter of Joshua Wesley & Fannie Wilkinson Wesley . In 1910, she, her sister Nina, and her brother Virgil lived with their grandmother, Samantha Wesley. In 1920, she lived with her mother.
Fred & Beatrice's only child, daughter Kathleen Neva Buster (Charlton) appeared in the 1940 census as Kathleen Wooldridge along with her mother, step-father Tim Wooldridge, and her younger half-brothers, Bradley & Harold Wooldridge. Tim's previous marriage had ended in divorce in 1928.
After Beatrice's death, Tim married Ruby ------- .
Kathleen Buster married first Pierce Burton (born June 8, 1924, Monticello, Wayne Co., Ky - died __ March 1983, Marion Co., Ind.; no findagrave entry located), son of Ransom K. Burton (43227566) and Linnie E. McClain (43227528) on November 22, 1944, in Henry Co., Indiana. Kathleen later married Wilbur Charlton (findagrave entry not located).
Kathleen was born in 1924, the same year in which Fred and Beatrice divorced, according to information Fred gave for his second marriage.
Beatrice remarried in 1938 to Timothy B. Wooldridge . She stated she and Fred had divorced in 1926, but the 1924 date given above is more likely correct, as Fred married on December 18, 1925 in Clark County, Ind., this time to Elsie Chapman , born Adair County, Ky., a daughter of Nathan Buchannan "Buck" Chapman and Mary Moore Chapman . In addition to Bradley & Harold, named above, Beatrice and Tim also had a daughter, Patricia Wooldridge (Tedrick), who was born a few months after the 1940 census was taken. Bradley is still living, a resident of Simi Valley, Calif.
In April 1930, Fred & Elsie lived with his mother, one of his brothers and a sister, and a sister-in-law in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. In mid-April 1940, Fred, then divorced, still lived in Ann Arbor with his mother along with two sisters, a brother, a niece, and a nephew. By that time, Elsie had married Gerrit Kienstra and lived in Holland, Ottawa County, Mich.
(research done by Jim Garner)
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