A History of Masonry in Madison County, Kentucky 1812-1913, compiled 
and written by Robert R. Burnam, 1914, p.  65.

JOHN FLEMING BUSBY, the next Master of No. 25, was born November 11, 1804,
in Fayette County, Kentucky. His parents were natives of Virginia, 
Kentucky being their adopted State.  The subject of this sketch was reared 
and educated in Fayette County, removing to Richmond in 1832, when he 
married Sophia Crews.  She was the daughter of David Crews, a 
distinguished Revolutionary patriot and pioneer of Kentucky.  Two children
were born of this union, Virginia, who became the wife of John W. Crooke, 
for years a leading merchant of Richmond, and Lucy, who married Dr. R. J. 
Poore.  Annie, born of a later marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Hale, became the
wife of John E. Greenleaf. Mr. Busby was associated with Mr. Joseph 
Chenault in the mercantile business until his death.  He was elected to 
the Kentucky Legislature from Madison as a Whig in 1836-37.  His 
constituents bore witness to his popularity and expressed their enthusiasm 
in this victory by bearing him to his home on their shoulders.  "Flem 
Busby," as he was familiarly called, was a man of beautiful physique, 
engaging personality, unquestioned courage and brilliant native 
endowments.  Always the center of an admiring and delighted circle, who 
loved him for his warmth of heart, his genial nature, his keen but kindly 
wit, he numbered his friends only by the limit of his acquaintance, not 
even having political enemies.  He was a humane man, kind, tender, 
merciful, caring for others at his own risk and cost, as was evidenced in 
the cholera epidemic of 1849 when he nursed the sick and buried the dead, 
even assisting in making many coffins, until himself falling a victim to 
the scourge, he died on the twenty-second day of August, 1849, a sacrifice
to his own heroism and humanity.
     "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends."
     In faith he was a Methodist, dying in the communion of that Church.
He was buried beside his first wife Sophia Crews, in the family burial 
ground on the David Irvine farm, then the property of the Crews family.  
His remains were afterward removed to the Richmond Cemetery of which he 
was one of the original incorporators.  Mr. Busby was made a Mason in 
1840 during the resuscitation of the Lodge by William Jones and became 
the Master the following year.  He was elected a Royal Arch in 1842.  
Until his death he was most active in all that appertained to the welfare
of the Order.  His daughter, Mrs. Crooke, is still living in our city 
(1914).

Busby Crews Crooke Poore Hale Greenleaf Chenault Irvine Jones
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Fayette-KY VA

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