Benjamin Harrison Bushong, 1888-1976 and Sarah Irene McAfee, 1888-1919
(first wife)

      

	•	Sarah Irene McAfee. Taken from a photo with her siblings.
	•	Sarah McAfee on the right, with Josie Bushong Janeway, on the left, and Abbie Janeway in back.

Ben with his mother, Annie and the motherless children, Clyde on the left, Helen on the right, in front, and Vernon on the right, behind Helen.




Benjamin H. Bushong and Clara M. Kellermeyer, 1889-1972
(second wife)
Ben and Clara on their wedding day.


Clara with her new husband and family. From left to right, Helen Lorain Bushong (Cremean), Benjamin Harrison Bushong, Clyde Joseph Bushong, Clara Kellermeyer Bushong, Vernon McAfee.

      
On the left, Ben on the right Clara with her son, Richard.

      
First Photograph, Ben as a boy, next, Clara, as a baby in Ohio in 1889.

      
First photograph, Ben, next, Clara, with her niece, Marie Thielk (Ramshaw).

      
Three Generations: Ben with his mother, Annie Beardsley Bushong and son, Richard. Clara with her mother, Sarah Lenhart Kellermeyer, and Richard.


Ben and Clara, during World War II.

      

	•	The Family during World War II. All their children served, two in the Army, one in the Navy, and one a Nurse. Not present Vernon. From Left to right, Irene Mullett Bushong, Joseph Clyde Bushong, holding Patricia Irene Bushong (Boom), Helen Bushong Cremean, Earl Cremean, (behind Helen), Benjamin H. Bushong, Clara Kellermeyer Bushong and Richard B. Bushong.
	•	Ben and Clara in the early 1960s.

A family gathering in Madera, California, in 1968.

	•	Front row, kneeling, Frederick Louis Boom, holding Matthew Allen Boom, Joseph Charles Bushong, Rebecca Clare Bushong (Key), Richard Benjamin Bushong (Jr.).
	•	Second row, seated Clara Kellermeyer Bushong, Benjamin Bushong, Clyde J. Bushong.
	•	Third row, standing, Patricia Irene Bushong Boom, Tina Mae Gilliland Bushong, Earl Cremean, Richard B. Bushong (in back), Helen Bushong Cremean, William Cremean, Irene Mullett Bushong.

Not present, Roger Clyde Bushong, Sarah Elizabeth Bushong (Keyser) and Vernon M. Bushong, who had died in 1966.



Ben driving his cousin, Dr. Charles E. Beardsley's 1905 Cadillac, a Model F touring car with the side-entrance tonneau. Probably near Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio. Notice Ben's "driving gloves".

Photos from the Rick Bushong collection.



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