THE HUSSONG MANUSCRIPTS
by
Edward Marston Hussong
Born 10 December 1863, Story County, Iowa on the home farm of his grandparents
John and Rosanna HUSSONG, near a branch of Squaw Creek, 2 1/2 miles from Ontario and about the same distance from Ames College
Farm.
Edward M. Hussong died April 21, 1949
After his death, Mary BREWER continued his work
by compiling the manuscripts into a 3-ring loose leaf binder and distributing copies to many of the descendants.
THE HUSSONG MANUSCRIPTS
"My studies of the History of the HUSSONG family was amateurish and
desultory at first. Quite possibly I inherited a flair for it from certain of my ancestors.
Fortunate circumstances favored me in this - My father had documents,
family Bibles, pictures and a wealth of oral knowledge of his ancestry from the first ancestor Rene Jacques HUSSON to
his own generation. Grandma HUSSONG had recorded data of her mother's family, [LUTTERLOH] from Revolutionary times,
though very meager scraps of her own family, the RULE's.
Mother's family, [BULLMAN] of English and Scotch ancestry had full information
of their lineage for many generations. Unfortunately, this was destroyed in 1867 when the library wing of the old homestead
at Wick Post Office, Tyler County, West Virginia, then held by grand uncle Jeremiah BULLMAN, was burned. However, the
principal facts had been copied by numerous relatives and from other sources, it could be mainly restored.
