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Submitted: 4/16/22 • Approved: 4/19/22 • Last Updated: 4/22/22 • R1428618-G0-S3
Company C Col Chares A Carroll's Regiment
Civil War Confederate
August 24, 1832 - January 2, 1908
John F. Bushmiaer, was born in Prussia (Germany) in 1832 to Henry and Margaret Schnuky Bushmiaer, also natives of Prussia.
He departed this life, January 2, 1908.
John came with his family to America in October 1847 and in the spring of 1848 he landed in Van Buren, Arkansas and soon settled in Alma. Johns father, Henry served in the Prussia army and was present at the battle of Waterloo and capture of Paris.
John was the third of a famly of five children, and while in Prussia, attended a common and graded school between the ages of seven and fourteen.
At the start of the Civil War he joined Company C of Col. Charles A. Carroll's regiment of cavalry and operated throughout the entire war in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indian Territory and Texas, being in nearly all the engagements and was never captured or wounded. The company was disbanded on Trinity River, in Texas.
In 1868 he married Mrs. Caroline Winckly Smith, a widow who was a native of Virigina; she died and left three children. In 1883 he again married to Mrs. Catherine Ramsdan,a widow and the sister of his first wife.
Since 1849 he lived on the farm his father cleared and had 340 acres. He was an industrious farme and stock raiser.
He was a charter member of the Alma Masonic Lodge and a member of the Lutheran Church.
Photo courtesy of Francis Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 4/16/22 by Billsully060
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