Howard Brockbank Bushnell

1865 - 1947  (82 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 36 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Howard Brockbank Bushnell
  Birth	12 Jan 1865	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Initiatory (LDS)	26 Jan 1887	LOGAN
  Census	1900	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation Gender Race BirthDate Age Status Years Married Children Born/Living BirthPlace BirthPlace of Father BirthPlace of Mother Immigration Year Occupation 10 1667 Howard B Bushnell Head Male White Jan 35 Married 0 Utah England England 11 1667 Mary E Bushnell Wife Female White Jan 32 Married 0 Utah England England 12 1667 Lula J Bushnell Daughter Female White Jan 11 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 13 1667 George L Bushnell Son Male White Jun 7 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 14 1667 Mabel Bushnell Daughter Female White May 0 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah  ED:  0107  Sheet:  12B    Microfilm:  1241683   Transcript ID is  dbid=7602&iid=004115258_00743
  Census	1920	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation Gender Race BirthDate Age Status BirthPlace BirthPlace of Father BirthPlace of Mother Immigration Year Occupation Veteran Street 44 58 Howard Bushnell Head Male White abt 1866 54 Married Utah England England 45 58 Mary Elizabeth Bushnell Wife Female White abt 1868 52 Married Utah England England 46 58 Mabel A Bushnell Daughter Female White abt 1901 19 Single Utah Utah Utah 47 58 George Bushnell Son Male White abt 1893 27 Married Utah Utah Utah 48 58 Ira Bushnell Daughter-in-law Female White abt 1895 25 Married Utah England Utah 49 58 Mildred Bushnell Granddaughter Female White abt 1917 3 Single Utah Utah Utah 50 58 Howard E Bushnell Son Male White abt 1919 1 Single Utah Utah Utah  Roll:  T625_186   Transcript ID is  dbid=6061&iid=4391982_00634
  FamilySearch ID	KWNJ-1C6
  Death	28 Nov 1947	Delta, Millard, Utah, United States
  Burial	30 Nov 1947	Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I4728	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John H Bushnell,   b. 19 Apr 1823, Headington, Oxfordshire, England d. 29 Jul 1882, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Brockbank,   b. 8 Nov 1838, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 16 Sep 1926, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	15 Aug 1854	Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F3239	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Elizabeth Labrum,   b. 3 Jan 1868, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 3 Feb 1947, Delta, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	26 Jan 1887	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Adrian Howard Bushnell,   b. 13 Nov 1887, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 19 Nov 1887, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 0 years) + 2. Lula Jane Bushnell,   b. 21 Jan 1889, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 23 Jan 1971, Delta, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 82 years)   3. Orin Labrum Bushnell,   b. 25 Nov 1890, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 29 Nov 1890, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 0 years) + 4. George Labrum Bushnell,   b. 12 Jun 1892, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 29 Dec 1962, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 70 years)   5. Mabel Alice Bushnell,   b. 15 May 1900, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 2 Jun 1924, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 24 years)
  Family ID	F3118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 12 Jan 1865 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 26 Jan 1887 - LOGAN Marriage - 26 Jan 1887 - Logan, Cache, Utah, United States Census - 1900 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Census - 1920 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Death - 28 Nov 1947 - Delta, Millard, Utah, United States Burial - 30 Nov 1947 - Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Bushnell, Howard B b1865 - Labrum, Mary E b1868

  
  

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  HOWARD BROCKBANK BUSHNELL 1865-1947 By Howard Elmo Bushnell (grandson) He was born January 12, 1865 in Meadow, Millard Co., Utah. A son of Jo h n and Elizabeth Brockbank Bushnell. He married Mary E. Labrum January 2 6 , 1888 in the Logan Temple. He attended Brigham Young University in 18 8 4 and was active in the Mutual Improvement Association in Meadow. He se rv ed a mission for the LDS church in California for two years and was su per intendent of Meadow ward Sunday School for 14 years. He was also in t he w ard bishopric for 20 years. My first recollection of Grandpa was when I was four. He showed so mu c h love to me. I spent a lot of time riding a good horse. I remember wh e n I was very small two of his favorite horses, a saddle horse named Fri t z which was a bay horse, and Old Brownie a top cow horse, brown in colo r. Grandpa was in the sawmill business with Jack McBride. The sawmill wa s u p Walker’s Canyon. He had a big gray team, Bud and Ben, weighing 180 0 pou nds each. I’ve heard him say they would hook on to the log, hang th e line s on the hames and would turn up the hill pulling the logs loose a nd the n go again. When they unhooked the logs they would start them up t he trai l and they would go back on their own. When the mill was moved u p above F illmore he sold his interest to Jack McBride He was a farmer in the summer and in the fall he would freight into Nev a da. He hauled apples, and produce. Grandma said he would be gone all wi nt er and very little cash did he bring home. She would milk the cows an d fe ed he pigs. He took the first load of sheep on the Fish Lake Forest. It was a co- o p herd. He said some only had 5 head. The grass was so high you couldn ’ t see your sheep, so he would have his dogs chase them to bring them ba c k to the tent. He was the first one of the Bushnell brothers to go ou t o f the sheep business into the cattle business. Jacobs Well and Squee Dike (meaning stinky water) were watering place s d eveloped by the Bushnell brothers as as the five were known. When I got a little older I would ride from Meadow to Jacob’s Well an d m eet my Grandpa and we would ride for cattle together. He was living o n th e Messigain Seed Farm, then they moved to the South Track south of D elta , it was known as the Van Winkle farm. They moved to the Cropper Lan e whe re I attended school in Hinckley. I lived with my grandparents ever y summ er until I started high school then I lived with them all year. Grandpa loved the wild horses that roamed the desert. He said, “I don ’ t mind people catching them, but I don’t agree to them killing them . I ho pe I never see it done.” When Grandpa and Grandma moved to Delta I remember he took the black pa c er mare of my fathers, and I remember how I had to trot all the way t o ke ep up with him. I loved to be with my grandfather. I also remember during the depression of the 30’s when the banks were c l osed and Grandpa and Dad lost all their cattle. Glen Kenney and Bill Ma nh art counted them on Mud Lake south of Delta. My heart just ached as th e t ears ran down the cheeks of my Grandfather. I also remember the Meadow Hotel just south of the store that Grandpa a n d Grandma owned. There was a sign about 10 feet long and 12 inches wid e a nd printed on it was Meadow Hotel, at the bottom was H.B. Bushnell. Grandpa was the most even-tempered person I have ever known. I’ve hea r d a lot of the old timers tell me what a big hearted man he was and ho w h e loved everybody. I don’t know what the trouble was but one day Uncl e Da n came into the store and asked Grandpa outside. He said, “Howard pu t u p your fists for I’m going to give you a trimming”. Grandpa said, “Da n, g o ahead and hit me, but you will never be able to say I ever hit m y broth er”. Dan hit him but Grandpa never raised a hand. Uncle Dan wen t home an d about 12 midnight a knock came on the door and it was Uncle D an. He sai d, “Howard, I want to apologize for what I’ve done, I just cou ldn’t sleep .” Grandpa said, “Dan go home and have a good nights sleep fo r I hold not hing against you”. Howard B. Bushnell never got angry. The worst work I ever heard him s a y was “damit”, and that was one day he had Daryl. Faryl and myself weed in g the corn with him. When it got time for lunch we went home and whe n i t got time to go back to the weeding there was not a Daryl nor a Fary l. T hey were hiding in Uncle Emil Pearson corn bin. Grandpa said, not cr oss , but, “Damit we will have to go leave them”. Grandpa never complained nor did I ever hear him talk about anyone. H e l oved little children also. After he moved back to Meadow, my oldest g ir l Koye was with him all the time. Every morning he would come up throu g h the lot to get her to go get the mail. People would say here comes Ho wa rd and his little shadow. Grandpa had another love which I did not like so well. He liked his eg g s just warm, not hardly cooked. Grandpa also knew where Chief Walker was buried. He showed me the fou r r ocks that make the corners of the grave. While riding as a young bo y he s aid he heard a big noise, he thought the Indians were on the warpa th snea king through the oak, maple and pines. He saw him buried, they bu ried a s mall boy alive with him. After they had gone he looked and the b oy’s han d had worked up through the grave about six inches. When Grandpa and Grandma celebrated their golden wedding he was aske d t o talk. He said they drove to Salt Lake City to be married in the tem ple . The first night they slept in a bed with big head boards. He said h e hu ng his pants on the post on the bed so he could get dressed before B ea (w hich he called Grandma) but she got up first and got his pants an d has wo rn them ever since. Grandma jumped up and said, “Howard that’ s a dam lie” . How the people laughed. Grandpa loved to joke, but Grandm a was very ste rn and never joked. Grandma managed the hospital in Delta for Dr. Bird as she was a train e d nurse. She was a midwife until Aunt Mae, her daughter went to Salt La k e to get her training for a nurse and she decided to go with her and th e y received their R.N. together. In 1936 she had in her little black boo k , “I have brought over 1400 babies into the world and never lost a chi l d or a mother”. Dr. Freeman said she taught him more than he learned i n h is schooling. Aunt Mae died shortly after. During the Flu epidemic in 1916 she took care of the people in Meadow , a lso the Indians. She said the Indians died 4 or 5 a day until onl y a fe w were left. She was a mother to me and loved by all who knew he r also. S he would go in her buggy with Pet and Polly, a little grey tea m of mares , or ride sidesaddle with her little black medical bag. One time she was called to the Beaver bottom. She drove her buggy to Ha t ton where she put her sidesaddle on a horse waiting for her. They had h or ses stationed along the way so she could change and ride on. When sh e go t there it was only minutes until she washed up and delivered the ba by. S he stayed there 10 days for 10 dollars in pay. In those days she sa id th e women stayed in bed for 10 days. Aunt Bea, as she was known by all, would go all hours of the night an d d ay. She delivered all of George Bushnell’s family of seven. She was s ter n and never joked, was all business. She had the first bathroom in Me adow . Uncle Josh Bushnell said, “I would never have a toilet in my home” . Sh e said, “Josh Bushnell, I paid for this myself and this is my house” . Sh e took in teachers that came to Meadow to teach. She never allowed D evi l cards in her house. I remember when Grandma died I tried to get Grandpa to come and live wi t h me. He said, “Sonny I just want to go where your Grandma is”. Grandm a d ied February 4, 1947 and Grandpa died November 28, 1947 at the home o f hi s daughter, Aunt Lue Pearson in Delta. I had a lot of love and respect for my grandparents. If ever two peop l e had a home in heaven I feel there was a home for them. children: 1. Adrian Howard, born 13 Nov 1887; died 19 Nov 1887 2. Lula Jane, born 21 Jan 1889; died 23 Jan 1971 3. Orin Labrum, born 25 Nov 1890; died 29 Nov 1890 4. George Labrum, born 12 June 1892; died 29 Dec 1963 5. Mable Alice, born 15 May 1900; died 2 June 1924 HOWARD BROCKBANK BUSHNELL By Howard Elmo Bushnell, Grandson and Mary E. Labrum Bushnell Howard Brockbank Bushnell, son of John and Elizabeth was born Jan. 12 , 1 865, in Meadow, Utah. He was educated in the Meadow schools and late r att ended the Brigham Young Academy. Although Howard was only seventee n year s old when his father, John Bushnell died, he and his four brother s forme d a partnership with their mother Elizabeth Bushnell, which laste d fort y years. They farmed, had sheep and cattle and ran a general merch andis e store first in Fillmore and then later in Meadow. Howard was a very calm, sweet-dispositioned man, who loved his childr e n and grand children as well as his other relatives and friends. His gr an dson Elmo, lived with his grand parents as a small boy and adored goin g e verywhere with his grandfather. Howard always had well bred horses and gave them extra special care . H e and Jack McBride were partners in running a sawmill which was locat ed i n Walker’s Canyon. Howard’s big teams of horses were used to bring t he bi g logs down the mountain to the Saw Mill. Later Howard sold his int eres t to Jack McBride, when he began freighting. He would farm and run t he ca ttle and sheep in summer, then in the late fall he would freight in to Nev ada. He married Mary E. Labrum of Meadow, in the Logan Temple January 26, 18 8 8, and having a keen sense of humor he enjoyed telling stories about h i s marriage, however his wife did not enjoy these stories as she was a v er y serious person. At one of the family gatherings Howard told of thei r tr ip to Logan in a covered wagon, and the first night after they wer e marri ed, they slept in a bed with a high backboard. Howard hung his pa nt on th e head board, hoping to grab them quickly in the morning, howeve r he sai d his wife beat him to the pants and she has been wearing them e ver since . His wife immediately shouted, “Howard, you know that is a bi g lie”, an d every one laughed heartily, knowing Mary had no sense of hum or. Howard and Mary also owned a hotel in Meadow, which Mary took care of , p ractically alone. She was a very industrious person. When her daughte r Ma bel decided to go into training to become a registered nurse, Mary d ecide d to go with her. They received their R.N.’s together. Mary had lon g bee n a midwife; Elmo read in her little black book “I have brought ove r 140 0 babies into this world and have never lost a child nor a mother . We alw ays had the mothers stay in bed ten day.” She sometimes had to g o as fa r as from Meadow to the Beaver Bottoms, and if the weather was te rrible , she rode horse back. All during the Flu epidemic she cared for t he sic k and did all in her power to relieve their suffering. She also to ok car e of the Indians who lived near Meadow on their Reservation. In sp ite o f her stern ways, she was very kind and considerate, and her childr en an d grandchildren loved her dearly. She had the first indoor bathroo m and t oilet in Meadow. Elmo writes of his grandparents, “I had a lot of love for my grandmoth e r Mary and my grandfather Howard, for I lived with them much of the ti m e as a boy. If ever two people deserve a home in Heaven, these two peop l e do, and I feel they are now enjoying it.” Their children are: Adrian Howard, born Nov 13, 1887; died Nov 19, 188 5 . Lula Jane, born Jan 21 1889; died Jan 23, 1971. Orin Labrum, born No v 2 5 1890; died Nov 29 1890. George Labrum, born June 12, 1892, died De c 29 , 1963. Mabel Alice, born May 15 1900; died June 2, 1924. Mary Labrum Bushnell died Feb 4, 1947, and Howard Brockbank Bushnell di e d Nov 28, 1947, and are buried in Meadow Cemetery. Howard served a two year mission for the Mormon Church. He was Superint e ndent of the Meadow Sunday School for fourteen years. He was also in t h e Ward Bishopric for twenty years. He was never known to have a grudg e to ward anyone in his whole lifetime. Biography obtained from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Fillmore, Ut a h, Territorial Statehouse Museum.