Claude Elijah DeBusk
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Claude Elijah DeBusk
Claude Elijah DeBusk, son of Elijah DeBusk and Sarah Catherine Ball, was born 28 May 1888 in Brown County, Texas and died 18 Jul 1977 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. He is buried in Cross Cut Cemetery, Brown County, Texas. He moved to El Paso wher he lived with a Mexican woman and her children. He seem to have unofficially adopted one of her son, Tony. Claude ran a wagon yard and a saloon named White Horse Tavern. Nothing is know about Tony except that he worked on the border with the government.
This picture was donated by Lois DeBusk Garrett in Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas. Lois is the daughter of Samuel "Sam" Dickson DeBusk and Frances Virginia Broocke