Seventh Generation (Continued)
Family of William Hall Buckalew (143) & Martha Jane McBride
352. Anne Jane Buckalew. Born on 13 January 1837 in OH. Anne Jane died in Akron, OH, on 29 April 1923; she was 86. Buried in PleasantHillCem., Monroe Twp., Coshocton Co., OH.
On 2 December 1855 when Anne Jane was 18, she married John Foster, in Coshocton Co., OH. John died on 19 February 1901 in Big Run.
They had the following children:
353. Lois Emerson Buckalew. Born on 13 August 1838 in OH.
1850 Coshocton Co., OH, Census gives her name as Louisa.
Living in Fredericksburg, OH, in 1924.
Attended the "Academy" at Spring Mtn., Coshocton, Col, OH, for a few terms.
On 2 February 1862 when Lois Emerson was 23, she married James A. Williams Rev., in Coshocton Co., OH. James A. died about 1922. Buried in King City, MO.
Minister of The Christian Church of King City, MO.
They had the following children:
354. Francis Marion Buckalew. Born on 29 March 1840 in OH.
Civil War: Pvt, Co. 143rd OH Volunteer Infantry.
"Frank" was appointed post master at Killbuck, OH, by Pres. Wm McKinley, in which capacity he served for many years until poor health forced him to resign.
As widow lived with daughter Mary Conner in Orville, OH.
On 2 January 1862 when Francis Marion was 21, he married Louisa Stone, in Coshocton Co., OH.
They had the following children:
355. Sarah Elizabeth Buckalew. Born on 7 August 1842 in OH.
In 1869 when Sarah Elizabeth was 26, she married William H. Spahn.
Lived in OH, KS (1880s) and OK
Charlene Erman (ltr 26 Dec 1995) said, "I have the last name as Spahr."
They had the following children:
356. William McBride Buckalew. Born on 30 November 1846 in Big Run, Coshocton Co., OH.
From Gerry Green's Buckelew Traces, p. 683, Issue 7 & 8: This Burklew [Bucklew] account appears to be something that Will (born 1846) wrote for his beloved daughter, Beulah Burklew ?Teets. The portion that deals with Will's siblings and parents (William H. & Martha Jane Burklew) should be correct. Likewise, he should have had fairly accurate information on his paternal grandparents (Samuel & Hannah Bucklew) and their children. I think the very faded and sometimes, written-over, typed copy has been in our Buckelew files for more than a few years, and I can't even remember who sent it in. And it's been said before that this account is quite long. But it is important not only for the "vital statistics," but for the things one man remembered about his immediate family. However, I'm having problems accepting the authenticity of what Will said about Samuel's father, reported to Andrew--so, in my opinion, those "remembrances" in the first five paragraphs certainly need a great deal of work! Others apparently shared some of my reservations about the content of those same paragraphs, as there were illegible notes or corrections in the margin beside them. Here we go:
The earliest information obtainable at this time (1924) dates back to the years just previous and during the Revolutionary War. The Colonial Period of American History.
Andrew Bucklew or Buckalew as the name was then spelled, was your [Beula Burklew] great-great-great grandfather. He was a pioneer settler of that famous colony, Jamestown, VA. Of what nationality or from what European Country he came no one seems to be able to tell. Family tradition, however, claims that we are of French dessent on the paternal side, but we DO know that HE and his ancestors were among the very earliest settlers of America and members of the VA colony established by Capt. John Smith (founded 1607). Andrew Buckalew lived in a log cabin in Louden [Loudoun] Co., VA, near the present site of the capital of our country, Washington, D.C., on the Potomac River.
Andrew Buckalew and two sons, Samuel and James, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. James was killed at the Battle of Yorktown. All three were members of Gen. George Washington's Army in the memorable Battle of Yorktown.
Soon after Independence had been assured the Buckalew family moved to Monongalia Co., VA, WV now. There were other sons and daughters born to Andrew Buckelew whose names and numbers I am unable to secure. Here the name was slightly changed by omitting the "A" and the name was spelled "Bucklew" and thus remained until years later when your great-grandfather migrated to Ohio.
[Samuel & Hannah Bucklew's Family]
In Monongalia Co., your great-grandfather, Samuel Bucklew, was married to Hannah Poland, a widow whose maiden name was Hall. They lived in VA up to the year ?1813 [faded]. In that year they came to Ohio, built and lived in a log cabin home in Clark Township, Coshocton Co. They lived in this section all their subsequent lives. Samuel & Hannah Bucklew were the parents of nine children, six girls and three boys.
(1) Andrew, the oldest of the family, was born in VA in ?1786. He died in OH in ?1846. He never married.
(2) Jane, the 2nd child of my g-par., was born in 17__. While quite young, she became the wife of Jacob Cunningham, and spent the rest of her life in the vicinity of her parents' home. She die 1843. She sleeps her last long sleep in [illegible] ground near Clark, OH, 7 miles south of ?Millersburg [rest of sentense illegible]. She was mother to several children all __________ ?migrated to the several states of the then "Far West."
(3) James, the 2nd son & 3rd child, was born in 1800. He was blind from his youth up to the time of death which occurred in 1849. His remains lie buried in the Bucklew graveyard near Killbuck River in Clark Twp., ?where ?his mother & two sisters also are at rest.
(4) Elizabeth, 4th child & 2nd dau., came into the world in 1802. She grew to womanhood in Ohio, then returned to her native VA and there was married to James Kennedy. ?She lived and died in her native state. ?We heard that during the Civil War she had some in both Rebel & Union Armies, brother against brother. I never knew but one of the family, Samuel, who visited us while I was a small boy. I presume some of the family still live in Monongalia Co.
(5) Annie Bucklew was the 5th of the family and [illegible] dau. She was born in the year 1804 and departed this life in 1854. She was never married, [this next part is very hard to read, but I think it says:] but had one son, who went to KS when that state was still young and died there shortly after the close of the Civil War. She was buried beside her mother in Bucklew Cem.
(6) Your honored grandfather was the 6th addition to this numerous family and 3rd and last son. William Hall Bucklew was born in Monongalia Co., VA, now WV, 1806, came to Ohio with his parents in 1818. The rest of his 73 years of life was spent in Cosh. Co., never being out of the state but once, when he and mother journed to KS with sister Sarah when she moved from OH in 18__. He died Oct. 5, 1878. He chose for his life partner my beloved mother, your peerless grandmother, Martha Jane McBride. They were married during the month of March 1836. A complete biography of our family will be the closing chapter of this sketch.
(7) Mary Bucklew, "Molly," as she was familiarly called, was the 7th child & 4th dau. of my grandfather's family. She was born sometime in 18__ in their old home in Monongalia Co., VA. She became the life mate of John Palmer, a near neighbor's son. They raised a large family of whom I knew but little. They carved out a new home in Defiance Co., OH, then a swampy wilderness. While yet a middle-aged man, he was killed by a falling tree. Aunt Polly died a widow at a ripe old age. They visited us once while I was yet a small boy. He was a loquacious story teller and I remember sitting by the old fireplace listening in wide and open-mouthed wonder and admiration of his wonderful pioneer tales. Many of the grandchildren of the Palmers are at present citizens of Defiance Co.
(8) Barbery, 8th child & 5th dau. of Samuel & Hannah Bucklew, was born in VA in 1810. She was married to Daniel Saverns when still in her teens, migrated with him to IL, Then the "Far West." She was mother of a large family, only one of whom I ever met, John Severns. I think Aunt Barbary's life was ?not fraught with much happiness. Timid by nature, she had not the courage to assert her rights as a wife and mother. Dan Severns was anything but a model man. Overbearing, arrogant, tyrannical, cruel, intemperate and untrue to his marriage vows. Money was his [illegible]. She lived ?with her children alone, died at a ripe old age and lies buried beneath the soil of her adopted state. d. 2/13/71 [illegible].
(9) Sarah, the youngest of the family, first openen her eyes to view this world in 1818. She was married to Archibald McNeal while yet in her teens. He was big-hearted, ... He was a good neighbor, ever ready to give where gifts were needed, to help when help was necessary. He was Irish by descent.
They brought into the world a family of eight children, all of whom grew up to maturity and married in their native county, Coshocton. In order of birth they are: (A) Mary McNeal -- Mrs. Wm. Willson. (B) ?Thoms. B. married, lived in MO. (C) Elizabeth died when she was yet young. She was single but engaged at the time of death. (D) Willam and (E) A. Jackson were twins. (F) Samuel, who still occupies the old homestead and the only one living still at the date of this writing [1924]. (G) Sarah Jane, Mrs. A.J. Stover. They were our neighbors, our dearest and nearest friends, our chums in school and out of school.
Henry N. "Hen" [Stover?] as we always called him, was my constant boyhood friend, companion and chum and we were fast friends and confidants in our mature years. We kept in touch by correspondence until his death only a few years ago in Idaho, his latest home.
Samuel B. is the only one of the McNeal family now living, 78 years of age. Numerous relatives and kin of the Bucklew family still call VA their home, and many distant relatives of my father.
[In the margin beside this and the next paragraph are handwritten notes or corrections, which are unfortunately illegible.] One James Bucklew was a pioneer settler of Cosh. Co., OH. He entered 160 acres from the gov't on a small stream, a tributary of Killbuck River, near its entry into the Wallhonding river. The creek still retains his name, Bucklew Run. Some of the name settled in Knox Co., OH, on Owl Creek, also a tributary of the Walhonding.
George Bucklew, James Bucklew, John Bucklew, William Bucklew, Nathan Bucklew, Parker Bucklew & Andrew Bucklew were each relatives of my father and all early settlers of Cosh., Knox or Holmes Cos. All had joined that innumerable caravan which moves to the mysterious land from whence no traveler returns. Many of their descendants still occupy the land in these three counties, others scattered to the "four winds."
[Wm. H. & Martha Jane Burklew's Family]
And now, Daughter of Mine, we'll take up the simple unembelished tale of your father's parents, brothers and sisters. Father's family and a few of the other brances of this old family name saw fit to again change the spelling of the name, leaving out the "c" and substituting "r." From here on [illegible] this sketch "Burklew" is the proper [illegible].
William Hall Burklew was a native of Monongalia Co., now WV. He was born on the sixth day of the month of [illegible], June 1806, the loveliest and sweetest month of the year.
He came to Cosh. Co., OH, in 1818 and lived with his parents on a farm in Clark Twp. on ?Doutery Creek, a branch of the Killbuck River. His whole subsequent life was spent in his adopted state and county. He and mother visited her daughter, Sarah, in KS for several months one summer, the only time he ever crossed the borders of the state.
Wm. H. Burklew was a stern man, strictly honest, truthful to perfection. He exacted strict and immediate obedience of his children. Old King David's barbarous maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," was one of his favorite quotations. He enforced the rule severely and cruelly, thinking it justice and right, the only way. I can vividly remember how we feared his [illegible] and anger. He had a violent temper, almost uncontrollable at times.
He was charitable to a fault, in this one characteristic, alone, he and mother were alike. "No unfed beggar ever came hungry from their door." A part of what they had was always cheerfully divided with the needy ones of the neighborhood. While he believed and supported morality and despised the lawbreaker, he never belonged to church or subscribed to any religious code. In politics he was an ardent, uncompromising Republican...
He was not the best kind of husband and father. A quiet unassuming man, ... We were compelled to live on the income of a not very productive 55 acre farm. It is located in Monroe Twp., Cosh. Co., on Big Run.
Martha Jane McBride became his bride and life partner in 1836. She was a beautiful red-cheeked Irish lass 21 years of age. She was antipode to father in almost everything. Cheerful, hopeful, kind to a fault, ambitious to get on in the world, and ardently and devotedly religious. There were eight of us in the family.
(1) Anne Jane was the first born. Her birth dates back to Jan. 13, 1837. She married John Foster in 1855. Two children were born to them:
(A) Emerson Burklew Foster was born in 1858 on New Years day. His father was a just man, but very strict in discipline, intolerant of all boyhood pastimes. Thence, the boy's life was narrowed and exclusive, denied most of the pastimes that boys love. As a natural sequence, when he grew, up out and away from parental control, he became wild, reckless, somewhat dissipated, neglectful of parents, and I'm afraid not at all times strictly honest. He was married twice. From his first wife he was separated many years. One daughter to this ?union. Some 20 or more years ago [i.e. c. 1900] he took to wife Mrs. Annie ?Ashman, who died in 1923 in Akron, OH, where they had made their home for several years. One son, Wayne, was born to this couple. At last information, he and son still reside in Akron. He also is the father of an illegitimate son, Carl Foster, of St. Louis, MO.
(B) Lois Foster, Loie, as we always called her, was the 2nd
On 23 April 1883 when William McBride was 36, he married Mary Catherine (Olmstead) Drushell.
They had one child:
357. Benjamin Franklin Buckalew. Born on 13 April 1848 in Monroe Twp, Coshocton Co., OH.
Spelled B. F. Burklew
From History of Coshocton Co., OH, 1740-1881, p. 642, by Hill, 1881: "...born and bred a farmer, and educated at Spring Mtn academy and Danville high school, of Knox county. At age of 16 he enlisted in Co. I, 51st O.V.I., and served 15 months in the Atlanta campaign, and under Gen. Thomas at Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia & Nashville, where he lost an arm. Since the war, he has spent his time in teaching, farming and selling patent washers. He was married to Miss Sophronia Thomas, in Apr. 1871, dau. of Uriah & Jane (Crawford) Thomas, and granddaughter of Eunice & Margaret (Cameron) Thomas." This source gives Ben's birthday as 15 Oct 1848, whereas his brother Will McBride gave Ben's birthday as 14 Apr 1848..
1883 Holmes Co., OH; Pension List: ... of Kilibuck, received a monthly allowance of $24, beginning April 1881, for the loss of his left arm above the elbow. Certificate #60, 196. [From "List of Pensioners on the Roll, 1883].
1898 Family photo on page 651 of Buckelew Traces, Issue 7 & 8.
On 13 April 1871 when Benjamin Franklin was 23, he married Sophronia Thomas.
From Columbiana Co., OH
Name elsewhere: Sophrona.
They had the following children:
358. Catherine _"Kate" Buckalew. Born on 1 February 1850 in OH.
On 11 April 1873 when Catherine _"Kate" was 23, she married T. E. Wollam, in Coshocton Co., OH.
They had the following children:
359. Hannah Buckalew. Born in May 1853. Hannah died on 15 September 1854; she was 1. Buried in Big Run Nazarene Cem., Coshocton Co., OH.
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