Busick Research Summary

Submitted by: Ardath L. Buckaway

Ardath is working with Don Busick and N. Gary Lane on the Busick Family roots. Don Busick is the son of Roy Magil Busick and the grandson of Charles H. Busick, who owned the Newpaper in Orleans for many years. Don's father still lives in Orleans in a seniors lodge and is 91 years old. His memories are still very clear. N. Gary Lane is a professor in Bloomington. He goes back to Penelope Busick who was the wife of Phillip Shively, and is connected to the Cane Creek Church.

Gabriel Busick was the first Busick that we have found that left Orange Co. North Carolina to settle in Orange Co. Indiana. He is the only one listed on the 1820 census for Orange Co. IN. Gabriel Busick's father was William Busick who was born about 1855 and Gabriel's grandfather was also a William Busick who was born probably about 1835. Both are listed in 1790 census of Orange Co. North Carolina. At that time the senior William had a son and a daughter still at home. William Busick, Jr. had 3 sons and 2 daughters all under 10 years of age. One of those sons was Gabriel and I am of the opinion that the other 2 sons were John and William. Gabriel was born 1 October 1785 and married in March of 1806 to Catey (Catherine) Sauls. John was the bondsman, and I belive that he was older than Gabriel. I also believe that John also moved to Orange Co. Indiana, and that Kindred may have been his son. All are listed in the Orange Co. Census at one time or another. I think that Elizabeth Busick born in N.C. who married David Humphry on 1 Aug. 1808 in Orange Co. N.C. was likely to have been a sister to John, Gabriel and William. William Busick, probably her father was the bondsman. This leaves only one daughter unaccounted for from the first marriage of William Busick who was born about 1755. We do not know the name of the mother of these 5 children but it is certain that their father remarried. His second wife's name was Susannah but no marriage date has yet been found. She did accompany him when he also moved to Orange County, Indiana and it would seem that she was the mother of his second family. According to the census taken in Orange Co. in 1850, Susannah was 70 years old and was living with Elizabeth (Busick), born in 1805 N.C. and her husband,Reuben Chatham. Susannah would have been born in 1780 and considerably younger than William. A son Joseph was also reportly born about 1800 but at this time we do not know whether he was from the first or second families. According Gary Lane, Susannah and Kindred were the excutors for John Busick's will.

Gabriel and his wife Catherine had several children born in North Carolina before they moved to Indiana. Two of these children were Thomas Wesley, born 1813 and William born 1815. Both of these brothers married the Hackney sisters, Eliza A. and Sidney.

William Busick, born in 1815 married Sidney Hackney in Orleans Twp, IN on 26 March 1833. They had 13 children. Sidney also raised Charles H. Busick. He called her grandmother but we are unsure of his parents. The children of Sidney Hackney and William Busick are as follows:
Sarah C.- born 1834, married William Dupont.
Martha J. - born 11 May 1835, died 12 Sept. 1846 in Orleans, IN.
Elizabeth D. - born 21 Aug. 1836 married William Bobbitt (?) 24 Aug. 1854 - died 2 Mar. 1861 in Orleans Twp. IN.
Eliza A. - born 13 Dec. 1837, died 26 Feb. 1885 Orleans, IN.
Mary E. - born 1838 married William Carter 20 March 1860
Samuel T. - born 28 July 1840, died 16 June 1854
William "Henry" - born 1841
Margaret Ann - born 1844, married Jacob Leo Cook, 27 June 1874 in Orleans, IN.
Benjamin F. - born 25 Sept. 1845 in Orleans, died 16 Feb. 1869.

Clarica "Alice" - 22 Mar. 1850, Orleans, IN., married Jackson Monroe, 25 Dec. 1865 in Orleans, IN. (They had 11 children. My grandfather was William Morten born 1877 in Orangeville, IN. married in Derby, Lucas Co. Iowa, 4 Mar. 1904 to Florence Ida COLLINS. They had 3 children (my mother Nellie was the eldest) before they moved to farm in Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada). Will MONROE died in an industrial accident on 12 May 1937 in Moose Jaw, SK.)

There seems to be an error in the next two birth dates but I will include them as I have them at this point. This is confusing because it seems both Eliza and Sidney had daughters they named Florence and both seemed to have the initial A.

Ella M. - born 21 Aug. 1851 in Orleans, IN, died 12 Oct. 1881 Orleans, IN. Florence A. - born 28 Nov. 1851. (It is thought that she may be the mother of Charles H. Busick, 1864, however she would have only been about 12 or 13 years old when she gave birth.) She later married William Abel on 27 Nov. 1870.
Nettie - born 1856.

William Busick died 4 Feb. 1856. It is possible that he died before his last child was born.

Thomas Wesley, brother to William, was born in 1813 in Orange Co. N.C. Both of these boys came to Orange Co. IN. with their parents between 1815 and 1820 when Gabriel is listed on the Indiana Census. Thomas married Eliza A. Hackney, a sister to Sidney. She was born 6 Aug. 1835 in Woodford Co. KY. Sidney was also born in KY. on 13 Oct. 1813 to Sidney COLLINS and John D. HACKNEY.
Thomas and Eliza Ann HACKNEY on 6 Aug. 1835 in Orange Co. IN. They had 9 children as follows:

Martha Ann - born 1837 married William Munson
Sidney - born 20 Nov. 1838 died 25 Nov. 1848
James Henry - born 1839, married, wife's name was Maggie who died in 1876.
George T. - born 20 Sept. 1843 - died, 18 Sept 1848
John H. - born 29 Jan. 1847, - died, 29 Sept 1848
Lawrence - born 15 Aug. 1849 - died, 27 Aug. 1852 in Orange Co.
Charles Agustus - born 1856, married, wife's name was Lulu.
Edward - born 1859, married, wife's name was Mary, they had a daughter Lena
Florence A. - born 28 Nov. 1861, died, 16 Nov. 1876.

Thomas Wesley died 13 Oct. 1813. After the death of her son Henry's wife, Eliza went to live with her son and care for his children for 17 years until her death on 21 May 1893 in Mitchell, Lawrence Co. Indiana. She was buried in Orleans, IN.

Thomas and William Busick are the only children of Gabriel Busick for whom we feel certain the dates, marriages and children are reasonably correct. On the 1820 census Gabriel had 2 sons and 2 daughters under the age of 10 years and 1 son and 1 daughter over 10 years. Penelope Busick was born in 1809 and could have been the daughter over 10 years old. There is still much to piece together.