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Cemetery, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Web site,www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/memphis.asp (accessed 22 May 2010). 67 Whitley Co., Ky., Will Book 3:78-79. 68 1864 Whitley Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Book. 69 “Memphis National Cemetery,” Find A Grave Web site, www.findagrave.com (accessed 22 May 2010). 70 “Historical Information,” Camp Nelson National Cemetery, www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/campnelson. asp (accessed 23 May 2010). 71 “Historical Information,” Memphis National Cemetery Web site (accessed 22 May 2010). 72 Ibid. 73 “Unknown” Soldier search, Memphis National Cemetery, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Web site, http:// gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 (accessed 22 May 2010). 74 Ibid. 75 “Historical Information,” Memphis National Cemetery Web site (accessed 22 May 2010). 76 Roll of Honor, XX-XXI:118. 77 Andrew Jackson Baker, death certificate no. 063-31212 (1917), Kentucky Department of Vital Statistics, Frankfort. 78 Andrew J. Baker, CMSR-Kentucky, roll 209. 79 Ibid. 80 Ibid. 81 Ibid. 82 Ibid. 83 Annilizac Baker birth record, Laurel County, Kentucky Births, 1876. 84 Civil War pension file of Andrew Jackson Baker, Co. F, 7th . Regt. Ky., Inf., certificate no. 187409 (Washington: National Archives). 85 U.S. census schedules: 1870 Whitley Co., Ky., 355; 1880 Laurel Co., Ky., 293; 1900 Boyle Co., Ky., 78; 1910 Madison Co., Ky., 165. 86 1890 U.S. census, Special Schedule, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, Etc., Rockcastle Co., Ky., 2, lines 5. 87 U.S. census schedules: 1870 Whitley Co., Ky., 355; 1880 Laurel Co., Ky., 293; 1900 Boyle Co., Ky., 78; 1910 Madison Co., Ky., 165; 1920 Boyle Co., Ky., 195. 88 Andrew Jackson Baker, Kentucky State death certificate no. 063-31212; and Boyle County Genealogical Association, Boyle County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records, 1792-1992 (Danville, Ky., 2008), 139. 89 Civil War widow’s pension file of Easter Baker, 66 | Kentucky Ancestors certificate no. 850370, (Washington: National Archives); and Ester Baker, Kentucky State death certificate 053-26095 (1922).
The Bustard Family of Louisville, Kentucky, 1795-1871 by Charles E. Deusner A large impressive memorial dedicated to the memory of John Bustard sits atop a hill in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. The inscription on the memorial declares that John Bustard was a man whose “Moral Worth and Integrity were of importance in the early settlement of this City,” and that “He immigrated to this country in 1791” and “located in Louisville in 1795.” Behind the memorial are several family gravestones, including John Bustard’s who died 28 November 1842, leaving a sizeable estate to his extended family; yet no members of his family have resided in Louisville since 1871. 1 John Bustard, named for his father, was born at Belleville House in County Donegal, Ireland, on 19 November 1769. Belleville House was a large house built in the early 1700s near Killaghtee (now Bruckles) on the north side of Donegal Bay east of Rossan Point and west of the town of Dunkineely. Family tradition maintains that Bustards were given land in Ireland from Yorkshire in England in the 1640s. The earliest family name found was Osbert de Bustard, circa 1115, who lived in the hamlet of Bustardthorpe which was located south of the city of York in England. Later, in the thirteenth century, the Archbishop of York, Walter Gray, purchased land from Robert Bustard who lived in Bustardthorpe. 2 John Bustard was one of four children, including George, Catherine, and Margaret, born to John and Jane Bustard of Killaghbee. It is probable that since John was the youngest son and would not inherit his father’s land and since prospects in Northern Ireland were limited, he decided to emigrate to America at the age of twenty-two. His whereabouts in America in the five years prior to his arrival in Louisville in 1795 are unknown, but it is likely that he was in Philadelphia sometime during these years since he seems to have had business connections in that city. When John Bustard arrived in Louisville the threat of Indian attack had ended only two years earlier and the town had many of the characteristics of a frontier settlement. Some of the original settlers were still living in the area, including the famous Revolutionary War hero of the western frontier, George Rogers Clark. Most of the streets were nothing more than dirt roadways. The town was said to be unhealthy and the low lands close to the Ohio River needed to be drained. The first brick house in Louisville was built only four years before John Bustard’s arrival. A description accompanying an early map appearing in county court records, dated August 1798, mentions a store owned by John Bustard on Main Street which he probably opened soon after he settled in the town. By 1800, his store was one of only five retail stores in Louisville. 3 Louisville was an ideal location for a merchant in early nineteenth-century America. It was strategically located at the “falls of the Ohio River,” where traffic moving up or down the river had to stop at Louisville in order to navigate the falls. A storeowner like Bustard could become prosperous stocking textiles, ironware, hardware, tools, nails, tinware, china, spices, and various notions which were shipped down river from Pittsburgh or other business centers in the East. Businessmen in early America had to acquire Winter 2011 | 67
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