Il est marié avec Annie Allen Bown.
Ils se sont mariés le 12 novembre 1877 à Livingston county,Ill, il avait 26 ans.
Enfant(s):
Immigrated to the US from England in 1872. Became a naturalized citizen in 1880.
Discrepancy over date of birth. Grave says 1852. Census records indicate 1851.
John Bush: Grandfather, lived in Bristol England. He had a family of five children. His wife died when the youngest was yet an infant. He was a trainer of hunting horses. Children - Oliver, Elizabeth, Annie (?), Sidney and William. I know little of those who remained in England but William and Sidney took a six week passage on a sailing ship to New York, Sidney being 19 years of age and his brother a little more than a year older. They had some knowledge of the Bown family who had recently emigrated from Evercreech, Somersetshire, England and located on some 600 acres of land near Streeter, Ill. So the two boys went directly there from New York. Will found employment in the Hennan Dept. Store and died a few years later of tuberculosis. Sidney found employment with Benjamin Bown and married his daughter Annie about 1877. They, Sidney and Annie, spent most of their lives on land in the neighborhood of Bown homes. After the family had matured they disposed of their land, around 200 acres, and went to Streater to live in retirement. Annie Bush died at Streater. Sidney Bush went to live then with his daughter, Ada Lillian and Gladys, and remained in Washington D. C. until his death.
John Bush paid a visit to his son Sidney and his family about 1882. It was a matter of amusement to the neighbors that John Bush, whose life occupation had been the training of horses to ride, was thrown from a docile mare on a ride into Streeter, fracturing his leg. I remember just one time. He was left in charge of Winifred, myself and baby Nellie. I have a mental picture of him scolding Winifred and myself. We had climbed into a low chicken coop.
Found in a letter from Gladys Bush West to her niece, Gladys Bush Aldridge:
Your grandfather, Sidney Bush, left Wells, England at age 19 to walk all the way to Liverpool to reach the ship that was taking his brother Will to America. Will, who was surprised at S. J.'s arrival, had money for passage but S. J. had to work his way over.
He had said nothing of his intentions nor did he leave a note to his father, probably thinking that he would be forbidden to leave. However, about 10 years later he demonstrated his love for his father by sending long-saved-up passage money for a visit to the U. S.
Another note from Gladys Bush West:
The Benjamin Crees Bown family had never met Sidney and Will Bush in England though they had not lived too far apart, 15-20 miles. However, the Bowns heard the Bushes had gone to America, and the Bowns looked the Bushes up when they got to America, and that's how Sidney Bush and Annie Allen Bown got acquainted.
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Sydney Bush, "United States Census, 1880"/ FamilySearch
Record for BENJAMIN CREES BUSH/ Ancestry.com
Sidney John Bush/ FamilySearch