Birth: 20 JAN 1844 Providence, Posen, East Prussia, Germany
Name Var: John
Note: Called “John” in his obituary. This is the only place I’ve seen him referred to by this name.
Birth of Daughter: 11 FEB 1863
Name: Hulda E. Bussler
Place: Germany
Birth of Son: 05 SEP 1870
Name: Albert E. Bussler
Place: Posen, Germany
Birth of Daughter: AUG 1871
Name: Emma D. Bussler
Birth of Daughter: 07 NOV 1875
Name: Bertha Olga Bussler
Lived in: 1881-1885
Place: Montague, Michigan
Birth of Daughter: 06 MAY 1882
Name: Minnie Emelia Bussler
Name Var: Mina E. Bussler
Note: Died from Typhoid Malaria when she was 13
Moved to: ABT 1886
Place: Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Worked for the Pere Marquette Lumber Company
Birth of Son: 31 MAR 1887
Name: John Ernest Bussler
Place: Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
City Directory: 1890
Place: 801 E. Foster, Ludington, Michigan
1900 Census: 07 JUN 1900
Place: Pere Marquette Twp, Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Amelia, and two children living in his household.
Occupation: Freight Handler. Worked for the Pere Marquette Lumber Co.
Date: 1900
Place: Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan, USA
City Directory: 1907
Place: 801 E. Foster, Ludington, Michigan
City Directory: 1910-1911
Place: Ludington
Note: Bussler, Steffon, trucker, P M R R, res 801 E. Foster.
1910 Census: 28 APR 1910
Place: Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Amelia, and one daughter living in his household.
City Directory: 1913
Place: 801 E. Foster, Ludington, Michigan
City Directory: 1915
Place: 801 E. Foster, Ludington, Michigan
Naturalization: 05 FEB 1918
Place: Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Had a fair complexion, 5′ 3″ tall, weighed 144 pounds, had gray hair and blue eyes, had stiff fingers on his left hand.
1920 Census: 02 JAN 1920
Place: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Note: Living with son, John, and his family.
Illness: 1921
Note: Stricken with paralysis. Though he recovered sufficiently to get about the house he was left lame and blind in one eye as a result of the stroke. This blindness was the cause of his falling about a week before his death when he attempted to go to the basement of his son’s house. In this fall he sustained severe injuries, said to have been the direct cause of his death.
1923 City Directory: Grand Rapids, Kent Co, Michigan
Death: 03 MAR 1924 Grand Rapids, Kent Co, Michigan
Note: Died of chronic interstitial nephritis with contributing factors of hypostatic pneumonia. Funeral was held at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church.
Obituary: 04 MAR 1924
Place: Ludington, Michigan
Burial: 05 MAR 1924 Lakeview Cemetery, Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
parents are unknown
Amelia Lange
Birth: 09 FEB 1842 Germany
Nickname: Molly
1st Marriage: Germany to Charles Beutling
Immigration: 15 APR 1881
Place: from Germany to the US
Religion: 1910
Place: St. Johns Evangelical German Lutheran Church, Mason Co, Michigan
Death: 15 JUL 1910 Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Died of Cancer of Stomach.
Obituary: AFT 15 JUL 1910
Burial: Lakeview Cemetery, Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan
Note: Plot Number 01-002-027-06-01. Epitaph reads:
(translation to English)
A precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home
which never can be filled
(Actual in German)
Schhumue sanfl indener grufft
Bisanden Jungsten, Tag.
Wo vereint not gottes thron
wir uns werden wider shen
parents are unknown
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