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Green Tolbert Bustin〔Sometimes rendered as Talbot. E.g. see Charles Edwin Jones, 976.〕 (commonly known as G. T. Bustin) (July 22, 1903 - July 22, 1995) was an American preacher, pastor, evangelist and missionary who served successively in the Church of the Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness Church, and the Immanuel Missionary Church, before founding the Evangelical Bible Mission, a conservative holiness faith mission organization, in 1940.〔Charles Edwin Jones, ''The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Comprehensive Guide'', 2 vols. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005):807-809, and 976-977.〕 Bustin was a prolific author, credited with writing at least twenty books, including two autobiographies.〔Charles Edwin Jones, ''The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Comprehensive Guide'', 2 vols. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005):807-809.〕 ==Early life== Green Tolbert Bustin (known to his family as Tolbert) was born on his paternal grandparents' farm in Hillsboro, a small village near Forest, Scott County, Mississippi on July 22, 1903〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):7.〕〔Source Citation: Number: 263-76-9752; Issue State: Florida; Issue Date: 1962. Social Security Death Index (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.〕 as the elder son of Oscar Percy Bustin (born December 27, 1882 in Hillsboro, Mississippi),〔September 12, 1918. United States, Selective Service System. ''World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918''. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls.〕 a farmer, and his first wife, Francis May "Fannie" Lyle Bustin (born October 19, 1884 in Mississippi).〔Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Daleville, Lauderdale, Mississippi; Roll: 815; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 1240815. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.〕 Soon after the birth of his only brother, Robert L. Bustin (born October 13, 1904 in Scott County, Mississippi; died December 30, 1980 in Duval County, Florida), his parents separated, with Fannie taking Robert with her.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):7.〕 By 1908 Oscar and Fannie had divorced, with Fannie marrying Elisha B. Davis (born June 1877 in Mississippi), an insurance agent, with whom she had a daughter, Lotta "Lottie" May Davis (born about December 1908) in Mississippi). By April 1910 they resided in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After the departure of his mother, Bustin had little contact with her and his brother.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):7.〕 Bustin and his father lived with Bustin's paternal grandparents, Robert H. Bustin (born May 1830 in Georgia) and his wife, Mary (born July 1854 in Georgia; died 1920 in Mississippi) on their farm in Hillsboro.〔Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Beat 1, Scott, Mississippi; Roll: T624_757; Page: 24B; Enumeration District: 0098; FHL microfilm: 1374770. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.〕〔Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Beat 1, Scott, Mississippi; Roll: 827; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 0088; FHL microfilm: 1240827. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.〕 Despite being an invalid, Mary Bustin, whom Bustin called "Mamma", was responsible for raising Bustin.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):7-8.〕 Bustin was educated in a one-room school house on Bustin Town Hill and was regarded as a good student.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):8.〕 In 1920, at the age of 17, Bustin had left school, and worked for several months at his maternal greatuncle's farm in the panhandle of western Texas.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):14.〕 While he was working in Texas, Bustin's grandmother died. 〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):14.〕 Soon after, during the winter of 1920-1921, Bustin left Texas to return home to Mississippi. However, not wanting to stay with his father, who had married Alma Myrtle Arthur (born May 6, 1896 in Bastrop, Louisiana; died July 15, 1989 in Gautier, Mississippi) and their infant daughter,〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):14.〕 Mary B. Bustin (born about February 1920), Bustin accepted an invitation to stay with his estranged mother in Little River, in Mississippi County in the delta country of northeastern Arkansas.〔G.T. Bustin, (''My First Fifty Years'' ) (Intercession City, FL: 1953; Reprint: Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1997, 1998):14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. T. Bustin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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