Tap will sound for the last time over a Defiance county Civil War veteran when the body of Joseph T. Bushong 97, is laid to rest in Forrest Home Cemetery at Hicksville , Ohio.
Mr Bushong died at 7:15 pm Thursday in Community Hospital, where he was brought Wednesday evening after suffering a fractured skull in a fall down a cellar way at the Knight Convalescent home in Edgerton, where he had lived two years.
Funeral will be Sunday at 2 pm, Perkins and Reeb funeral home, with Rev. Wallace E. Jones pastor of Church of Christ, officiating.
Mr. Bushong was born Aug. 27, 1847. In Logan county, and was less then a year old when his parents moved to Putnam county, near Columbus Grove. After his discharge from the Army he went back to Columbus Grove. There he married Jane Pepper. They moved to Carryall township southeast of Hicksville in 1872. They lived there until 1901,when they came to Hicksville. Mrs. Bushong died here Aug 3, 1903.
That fall Mr. Bushong went to Kansas, where he lived nine years.
Returning to Hicksville in 1912, Mr. Bushong married Harriett McElderry of Columbus Grove on Feb. 23, 1914. They lived in Columbus Grove until she died May 12, 1937. Then Mr. Bushong came back to Hicksville to make his home with his children.
He leave three daughters, Mrs. George S. Pool and Mrs. Cora Erter, Hicksville, and Mrs. Mettic Waltenberger, Milford township; five grandchildren, six great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Mr. Bushong was commander; of Hicksville G.A.R. post for many years, a member of the Masonic lodge and the Church of Christ.
The day before his 15th birthday, he enlisted in the Union Army in Lima and became a member of Co. G, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He served three years lacking 35 days: saw action in 13 battles and scores of skirmishes. Engagement included Town Creek Ala., Resecca, Lays Ferry, Rome Crossroads, Dallas, Nickojack, and Lovejoy Station, Ga. and Bentonville North Car. He was in the siege of Atlanta, the battle of Jonesboro and the heavy fighting at Kenesaw Mountain, and was in Sherman march to the sea.
He was mustered out at Louisville July 13, 1865, was a corporal and received his discharge at Camp Denison, July 21, 1865
He leave three daughters, Mrs. George S. Pool and Mrs. Cora Erter, Hicksville, and Mrs. Mettic Waltenberger, Milford township; five grandchildren, six great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Mr. Bushong was commander; of Hicksville G.A.R. post for many years, a member of the Masonic lodge and the Church of Christ.
The day before his 15th birthday, he enlisted in the Union Army in Lima and became a member of Co. G, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He served three years lacking 35 days: saw action in 13 battles and scores of skirmishes. Engagement included Town Creek Ala., Resecca, Lays Ferry, Rome Crossroads, Dallas, Nickojack, and Lovejoy Station, Ga. and Bentonville North Car. He was in the siege of Atlanta, the battle of Jonesboro and the heavy fighting at Kenesaw Mountain, and was in Sherman march to the sea.
He was mustered out at Louisville July 13, 1865, was a corporal and received his discharge at Camp Denison, July 21, 1865
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