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Jennie Bucklin

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JennieJennie, Ed, Joe, and their father James Bucklin are the four who filed for the homesteaded that created the Bucklin farm where it is now.

Some time before the family left Iowa, Jennie and Giled Kenyon were divorced. She later married Ben A. Taylor.

Jennie was born in Massachusetts in about 1857. She died about June 1893 at the age 36 when her children were still young.  She had been ill since at least early May with “sinking spells nearly every day” according to a letter between her brothers Joe and Louis on May 15.  Her mother was staying with her.  Louis’ journal entries, written while at military academy in Ada, Ohio, end abruptly in early June, 1893. According to Edna Bucklin Keys, Jennie’s death upset Louis deeply, he traveled home and did not ever return to Ada, Ohio. Journal entries resume several months later recording farming details.

Jennie’s brother Edward was legally appointed Dative Tutor (guardian) for her kids, Clarence Kenyon and Frank and Vera Taylor. Her brother Joe was appointed under tutor.

It appears from Louis’ journals that Clarence lived with his grandmother Mary McGrath Bucklin, Ed and Louis. Clarence and Ed were often noted as plowing or doing other work on the farm. Frank may have also lived with them at times, but must have lived with his sister Vera and his father Ben Taylor most of the time.

Photo scanned by jciv from Ruth Bucklin Bruchhaus’s collection.

From Lizzie to Auntie

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3_sistersMom, Van, and I worked on figuring out who these were recently. On the back, written lightly in pencil on black paper was a note, but it was almost unreadable even after enhancing with the computer. It was obvious they were sisters, but it took a lot of studying her handwriting and guess at her misspellings to finally be able to understand it all:

 3 sisters back
From Lizzie to Auntie
Ora on the right – and then
myself and Tena [Christina] I thought
you would presate [appreciate] this better
than any thing else I could
send you
to Auntie
 
Years ago, that wouldn’t have helped, but we have expanded the family tree a bunch and finally had some matching names. I found the daughters of Mary Etta Stanbrough (1848-1934) matched. Mary Etta is sister of Susan Stanbrough Hine (Addie Hine Bucklin’s mother).
 
Ora Wicker (or Whicker) (1869)
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wicker (1881)
Christina “Tina” Wicker (1874)
 
We don’t know much about them, but its nice to have their photo and Lizzie’s note.

Bucklin Twins

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Siblings Day was this week so Twins seems like a good topic. My Great Grandparents Addie Hine and Louis Bucklin had two sets of twins.  Clarence and Fred were born October 2, 1907. Roy and Ruth born March 25, 1915.
Ruth and Roy at 7 years oldRoy and Ruth Bucklin crossdressing

I was lucky to be able to scan lots of both Roy & Ruth Bucklin’s photo collections years ago and found some good ones for today.  Be sure to pay attention to what Roy & Ruth are wearing.

I don’t have much of Clarence & Fred when they were young, but I do have their Bucklin Brothers Nursery Price List and Van was able to find me a photo of them together.

Edna told me, “Fred and Clarence were identical twins. Teachers couldn’t tell them apart. They put red and blue ribbons on them to tell the difference, but the boys would switch the colored ribbons.”

Fred and Clarence around 1928Bucklin Bros Nursery

Elizabeth Wilkins

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Elizabeth WilkinsElizabeth Wilkins
Born 19 OCT 1863 in Berlin, Germany
Died 28 DEC 1925 in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, USA

This is my great great grandmother on my dad’s side. Most of the old photos I have been posting for Throwback Thursday are on my mom’s side because I have more scanned photos of them.

Elizabeth came to the US with a married aunt around 1877. Her first husband died early (possibly heart attack). She married Joseph Schiefer in 1884. Their daughter Valley Johanna Schiefer [Fox] is Charlotte “Rita” Fox [Connors]’s mother.

Her children were:
Charles Schiefer (1888–1952)
Valley Johanna Schiefer (1892–1966)
(Austina Flora) Marie Schiefer (1894–1980)

According to her granddaughter, Rita, she had diabetes and it contributed to her death.

I Googled to see when the first treatments were available. I don’t know what type she had, but on January 11, 1922 insulin was first successfully used in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Before that, it was exceptional for people with Type 1 diabetes to live more than a year or two after diagnosis.

Bucklin Gathering 1948

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A Bucklin gathering like this was probably for Addie Hine Bucklin’s birthday on September 23.  Looks like about 1948.  I found three photos of the group (posted with and without numbers).  Apparently Vernon Keys (numbers 4 and 25) ran from the front to the back of the group between shots.  Any guesses what happened to Herbert (12) in the third shot?

After posting these, Van reminded me that he had posted two different photos from this scene. Our year estimates are only off by one so should be pretty close.  Lots of relatives on Facebook worked together to name everyone on his post which was really helpful to me since he had most of the names already figured out.  Mine photos have a bit larger of a group though so there are a few blanks to fill in.

Bucklin Group 1b Bucklin Group 2b Bucklin Group 3b
Bucklin Group 1
Bucklin Group 2
Bucklin Group 3
1. Frank Keys
2. Alma Bucklin
3. Arlene Keys
4. Vernon Keys*
5. Stanley Keys
6. Austin Bucklin
7. Loris Bucklin
8. Laurence Bruchhaus
9. Jeannette Bucklin
10. Roy Bucklin
11. Effie Hetzel Bucklin
12. Herbert Bucklin
13. Louise Bucklin
14. Dora Koll Bucklin
15. Mary Bucklin Phenice
16. Addie Hine Bucklin
17. Ronnie Taylor
18. Helen Bucklin Taylor
19. W.C. Bruchhaus
20. Ollie Hine
21. Lenora Bailey Hine
22. Betty Lou Bucklin
23. Fred Bucklin
24. Melvin Keys
25. Vernon Keys*
26.
27. Sylvan Phenice
28. Harley Bruchhaus
29. Edna Bucklin Keys
30.
31. Ralph Bucklin
32. Guy Havenar
33. Edessa Welton Havenar

Farming 1965

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Combine cutting rice and Ray Bucklin muddy from water leveling, taken by Louise on her Kodak Brownie in 1965.

Ray says the photo of the International Harvester combine is of he or his dad, Herbert Bucklin, driving the combine into the edge of a field to cut a sample of rice to test the moisture content to see if it was ready to harvest. “Daddy always knew whether or not the rice was ready to cut without using the moisture meter and I never remember having to wait and cut a second sample, but he always checked anyway. That is why the combine cut a short curved path just a little way into the field and then stopped. I think I see someone standing up by the hopper to get a sample of rice to test.”

combine1965dirtyray

More Hine Havenar Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration

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Susan G. Stanbrough Hine (75) and Mrs. W. E. Havenar (60)’s Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration October 3, 1926. Taken at William E. Havenar’s home.

I found a package of five negatives from the celebration. This includes a third version of the large group photo and smaller groups with Addie Hine Bucklin who missed the big group photo. Van also found a print from another photographer of this smaller group.

You can see the other versions of the group shot, read the newspaper article, and find many of the names here.

1926 negatives Addie, Susan, Ralph
Addie, Susan Hine, Ralph, Helen in front
Hine Bucklin Group
Bucklins and Hines
Hine Havenar Birthday 1926
Large group photo
Hine Bucklin Group
Found another print
____ Bucklin
___ Bucklin (Herbert didn’t have bow tie)
Henry Phenice
____ and Henry Phenice
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