Lusby Intro

Emily Sutton Lusby

I took a picture of four generations of male Lusby’s, my grandson, Mark Lusby, nine years old; my son and Mark's father, Ray's father and Mark's grandfather, Edward Bryan Lusby fifty-six yrs. old. The fourth was John Raymond Lusby; Edward's father, Ray's grandfather and Mark's great-grandfather eighty yrs. old. This picture was taken in 1969. I framed this picture. So many people asked me if I had the family history to go with this picture? My answer was always, Well I know all about these four generations, but have never traced the family or written a history.

In May 1970, Edward's cousin, who he didn't know, came to Kent County from Ohio, for information on the Bryan family. The Bryan family are Edward's mothers people. The Bryan name is Edward's middle name. This cousin had traced the Bryan family to the children of Rachel Bryan Lusby and her husband John Raymond Lusby. He asked me to get all the dates and names of their (j. Raymond and Rachel Bryan Lusby’s) children. I did this and enjoyed it.

In may of 1971, Mr. George Thoma, our local radio station manager, visited me to get the history of my family, "The Suttons". This was for a special program Kent County was going to do for my brother, Stanley B. Sutton. I thought I knew a lot about my family, but when I had to put my knowledge down in writing I found I couldn't really go back very far, or I knew some folks were related, but not exactly how. Mr. Thoma thought we were a very interesting group of people. This made me aware of the fact, that we all were. I still did nothing about this.

In the late summer of 1971 Edmund P. Lusby, Sr. asked Edward to stop by his home and look at some records he had on the Lusby’s. We have always thought we were two sets of Lusby’s, but the same names were always turning up in Ed's as in Edmunds. Edmund's uncle had always heard that there were (3) three Lusby brothers come to the U.S. from England and one settled in Kent County, one in Cecil County, and one in St. Mary's County. Ed's family, is far as I have gotten are Kent County Lusbys. Edmund's family started in Cecil County and moved to Kent County. Helen Lusby Williams, Ed's sister, said their Uncle Herbert always said the two families were related (but far to late) no one asked him how. The winter of 71-72 I didn't get very far on this history. In the spring of 72 I started again. The first thing I did was ask the elderly folks, that I knew were related. I got a good bit of information. Then I visited the cemeteries and got names and dates and began putting it together. Mr. J. Raymond Lusby had the John Lusby family Bible. This gave me many births and death dates. There were newspaper articles glued in the Bible, which led me on. Then I visited more and more cemeteries in Kent County. I was told by a Mrs. Jarrell (in Kent Co.) that the Olin Lowell farm near Kennedyville was once a Lusby farm. Then I started tracing deeds in Kent County Court House. I found this farm was left by Lusby to another Lusby through a will. Therefore, I looked up the wills in Kent Co. of the Lusbys and found widespread information. In one will a Hudson was mentioned. I called Mr. and Mrs. Hope Hudson. Their Bible records and their knowledge added more to my history. At this time I was so involved I wanted all the Lusbys living to know what I had gathered, so I just couldn't stop. Edmund P. Lusby was also interested in his family history, so we decided to work together. We then visited cemeteries in Cecil County and the court house for wills and deeds. There were two (2) farm graveyards on our travels. We each made contact with other Lusbys, then we compared and made corrections of the Lusbys families, or just where, or who this information goes to.

At the time of this writing we have some names and records we haven't identified yet, but as we or I do, I shall pass it on to you. I have left the back of each sheet of paper, for future information. If you ever get any information please send a copy to me.

When you read through the history you may think some names are spelled wrong. This is the way they are recorded, either in the Bible, from the Court House, or on tombstones. The marriages have either come from the Court House records or Bible records.

The names Sassafras, Kennedyville, Urieville, Chestertown, Worton, Fairlee and Chesterville are all Maryland towns and are in Kent County, MD. Chester Cemetery is located in Chestertown, MD.

The last pages will be wills I have copied. There will also be a page of Lusbys I haven't connected yet with the ones I already have.

I hope you enjoy this and pass it on to your children.

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