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The German spelling of BUSS might be BUHS.

Married Emma Margaret "Maggie" Ackerman in May 1911.

There was an article published in a local newspaper about his death. This was contributed by Edward Armbrust of Illinois who is working on Buss genealogy. He said the article was difficult to read so he transcribed it:

John Buss Killed Near Omaha

"John Buss of Gothenburg was killed Friday when he was struck by a transport truck on the highway near Omaha. The driver of the truck Mr. M. Bedore of Lincoln stated that he attempted to avoid hitting Mr. Buss and swerved his truck but the back of the trailer hit Mr. Buss. He was identified by letters in his pocket."

There are a couple different versions from different family members about how John died :

1. His nephew Dale Buss says that John first lost his arm when it was cut off by a train. He fell under the wheel and the compression of the wheel closed off the blood vessels so he didn't bleed to death. He was put into the Catholic Hospital in Kearney. A few years later he went to Omaha, NE to have cataract surgery. After he left the hospital he went out to the highway to hitchhike home. Dale thinks John probably was hoping to catch a ride on one of the cattle trucks. It was raining and cold and he was run over by a semi; that is how he met his death. Dale thinks the truck was a Red Ball Express.

2. His grandson Lenny Buss says his Uncle Bill told him a slightly different version. John J. Buss lost his arm when it was pinched somehow when freight trains were connecting or something like that. Bill told his nephew Lenny that John was drunk as usual when it happened. Lenny said John's two sons, Bill and Lenny's dad Edwin, took their dad to Omaha to get his arm looked at by some doctors there and a truck jumped a curb, hit him and killed him. Edwin and Bill were grown and in their mid to late twenties when he their dad was killed. Bill told his nephew Lenny that his dad was always getting drunk and lost his farm given to him by his dad.

Leonard (Lenny) Buss also noted that because of his drinking, that after his wife died in 1929 that he lost the farm that was given to him by his father. Two of his sons, Bill and Edwin, had to fend for themselves in Gothenburg, sleeping in barns and stealing food. The oldest, Herman, eloped a few months after the death of his mother Maggie.