Elias DeBusk the son of Palser DeBusk and
Mary Sarah "Sally" Surber was born
05 Jul 1824 and Martha Edmondson daughter
of Andrew "River Andy" Edmondson and
Susan DeBusk was born 16 Mar 1824. They were first cousins.
They had three children Elijah, Andrew
and
Susan.
Elias DeBusk joined Company H, 27th
Battalion
of Virginia Mounted Rifles, 25th Virginia
Cavalry on 3 October 1862 at Whitesholes,
Lee County, Virginia. He was definitely
with
the 25th just before it was decimated
in
the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The
25th
was part of General Jubal Early's Army.
In
all probability Elias was present at
Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania where General Early took
revenge
on the north for actions of the Union
General
David "Black Dave" Hunter
in Virginia.
On 20 December 1864 he was listed as
absent
without leave. This was very common
as the
25th. Virginia Cavalry was no longer
a viable
unit. Many of the men were sent home
to get
replacement horses, but were only given
30
days to go from Oak Hill, Virginia
to Abingdon,
Virginia by train. They then had to
walk
to their homes in Lee County, about
75-80
miles. He was paroled on 27 April 1865
at
Cumberland Gap, Kentucky by Colonel
William
Y. Dillard of the 34th Kentucky Infantry
Volunteers of the Union Army after
swearing
allegiance to the United States of
America.
A party of 10 people, which includes
Elias,
Martha, and their 3 children and their
family
and a brother Christopher DeBusk, left
Lee
County, Virginia in 1868 in a covered
wason
for Texas. They came through the Cumberland
Gap and down the Boone Trail to the
ferry
at Boonsboro. The trip to Texas took
them
9 weeks. They originally settled in
Collins
County, Texas. This is only one year
after
Colonel Randall Slidel McKenzie defeted
the
Comanche and Kiowa Indian in Palo Duro
Canyon
which effectively eliminated the indian
from
Texas. In 1875 they moved to Brown
County,
Texas, where they remained until their
death
Elias and his three children all became
ranchers
in the northwest corner of Brown County,
Texas very near Cross Plains, Texas.
Some
of his descendants still live in this
area.
Their children were
.
1 - Susan DeBusk born 29 Mar 1845 married James Patton Helms
2 - Elijah DeBusk born 25 Jan 1847 married Sarah Catherine
Ball
3 - William Andrew DeBusk born 18 Aug 1850 married Martha Ann McAbee
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