B. F. Tussing & Family: Benjamin Franklin Tussing

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalm 100:4

09/19/2022

The Many Jobs/Careers of Cary Tussing

Occupations
• 1889 – Born June 2 in Odessa, Nebraska
• 1900 US Federal Census, 11 years old @ school Odessa, NE
• 1910 US Federal Census, 21 years old, home and fruit farming, Fruitland, ID
• 1908-1909 Manager of Switchboard for new FMTC phone services, Fruitland, ID
• 1911, 22 years old, Marries Cordia 27 Nov in Caldwell, Canyon County, ID
• 1913 County Directory, 24 years old, Farmer, Fruitland, ID
• 1915 County Directory, 26 Years old, Farmer in Fruitland, ID – R.D. 1 Residence Payette, ID
• 1916 County Directory, 27 Years old, Farmer, Fruitland, ID – R.D. 1 Residence Payette, ID
• 1917 Draft Registration, 28 years old, Farmer, North Fruitland, ID – R.D. 1 Residence Payette, ID
• 1919 County Directory, 30 years old, Farmer, Fruitland, ID $180, – R.D. 1 Residence Payette, ID
• 1919 Owns a Tire Shop, 30 years old, Fruitland, ID (news article)
• 1920 US Federal Census (Payette County, North Fruitland), 31 years old, fruit farmer, married, North Fruitland, ID, Payette Census
• 1922 Manager of FMTC again, Fruitland, ID – moves family into the FMTC Building [house]
• 1930 US Federal Census (Payette County, North Fruitland), 41 years old, proprietor of a pool hall, house value $2,000, residence: Payette, ID
• 1940 US Federal Census (Payette County, South Fruitland), 51 years old, farmer and his wife, Cordia, is a reporter for a newspaper
• 1942, 53 years old, Dairy Farmer, Draft Registration, Fruitland, ID
• 1950 US Federal Census (Payette County, Fruitland Village), 61 years old, general labor, irrigating, etc. Orchard farm; Cordia is a society correspondent for a newspaper,
• 1950 (until his death?) Cary is a real estate agent. (from his death cert) Was he was in real estate before 1950?
• Death 21 Sep 1965

09/19/2022

Cary Tussing Owns a Tire Shop

09/06/2022

B. F. Tussing becomes a Payette County Commissioner in the newly formed County. He served as a comissioner in Nebraska prior to coming to Idaho. From age 32 until age 43, B. F. serves as Buffalo County Board Supervisor. and continues in multiple capacities during his service to the County Board (from 1889 until 1901) in ranging from County Board Supervisor, County Board Commissioner, Chairman of Board and serves on multiple committees, often concurrently, for School Lands, Bridges, Finance, Court Claims, Court, Public Lands and Building, Roads, Bonds, and Poor. In addition to being on the Buffalo County Board, it is reasonable to assume B.F. continued tending to his walnut orchard, and other farm crops.

09/03/2022

Visit our new B.F. Tussing Profile Page at Wikitree, just updated today!

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tussing-158

09/02/2022

Benjamin Franklin "B.F." Tussing and his wife, Amanda Jane "Mandy" Neaf [aka Neff] Tussing

09/01/2022

The Fruitland First United Church, the church that BF was a member of and helped to build in 1908, published (several years ago), a 100th commemorative book complete with Fruitland history, historic photos and recipes (YUM!) is still available for purchase today from the church.

The Fruitland First United Church
Address: SW 2nd St & Nebraska Ave S, Fruitland, ID 83619
Phone: (208) 452-3260
https://www.fruitlandfirstumc.org/

Below are a couple of the pages!

08/30/2022

08/29/2022

The Fruitland Chamber of Commerce, https://fruitlandchamber.wildapricot.org/ has done a fantastic job installing historical banners up and down Main Street, each banner telling a story about Fruitland, its founders, businesses, and families. I understand that Lucinda Day https://shopbigsky.net/, Reece Hrizuk https://hrizuklaw.com/?doing_wp_cron=1661802510.2156488895416259765625 and his assistant Nicole, were very instrumental in "making this happen."

08/25/2022

Anxious to hear from members of our family...Andersons, Tussings, Diehms, Henderson, Roystons, Ralstons, Martins, Petersons, Montgomeries, Hutchinsons, Blotters, Sopers, and all the rest!

NOTE: The surnames have been RANDOMLY placed on the tree below.

08/25/2022

We are fortunate that B.F. was not inspecting the bridge alone, and there were other County Commissioners with him, when the ice under the bridge cracked and B.F. fell into the freezing waters!

08/24/2022

Just when you thought you might KNOW SOMETHING FOR SURE!
LOL, there is a very, very good possibility that the house we all know and love, and refer to as BF's second house is not, and has not ever been his home at all!

In communicating with Reece Hrizuk, he informs me that this property on 117 SW 4th Street house, the beautiful aqua colored house with the fancy gingerbread gables, often referred to as "The Tussing House," never shows Tussing owning said property.

Reece has performed a chain-of-title search on the 117 SW 4th Street house, Lots 8, 9,10 of Block One of the Original Townsite of Fruitland. No Tussing appears in the chain-of-title. That house was built by John O. Johnson, who owned the mercantile located at 222 SW 3rd Street (currently L and L enterprises).

He also sent me the original deed, attached here. The deed is dated 1910, that house was probably built by Johnson in 1907-1908, because Johnson had to pay the taxes for the lot going back to 1907.

Reece, further says, and is conducting another chain-of-title search on a property located at 305 SW 4th street, Fruitland, for which he says the gables more closely resemble the photos we have of BF & Family and BF & Friends in front of that house. It would appear, if this is the REAL 2nd BF Tussing house that the front porch has been remodeled.

And, the property that Reece wishes to purchase is actually the property on 704 SW 3rd Street.

I COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN IT ALL MORE WRONG. LOL. 😆