George H. Hine Homestead Publication
The Jennings Daily Record
November 07, 1901
Found at the Library of Congress‘ American newspaper archives. A really good website for finding stuff.
Month: January 2015
Ohio Normal University
Louis Charles Bucklin at Military Academy in Ada, Ohio.
Ray Bucklin (former 1st Lt Bucklin) thinks the 4th in the front row is Louis. “The military would have probably lined them up in alphabetical order. I have spent a lot of my life third or fourth in line.” I thought that one looked similar to Louis’s later photo so Ray is probably right.
Louis came home after his sister Jennie died around June 1893. I Googled the name on the flag and found it was Ohio Normal University (now Ohio Northern University).
I found Louis listed in two year books on ONU’s website:
1892-93
1893-94
Page 71 of both yearbooks list L. C. Bucklin from Calcasieu Co., LA in the Commercial Course Department.
Page 29 gives you a description of the Commercial College. I always wondered why he went to a military school, but that was just part of it. That page says, “There is nothing in which you can engage that will not call for a business knowledge.” That made me realize he must have gone there for the business education which would help him him run the farm.
The first part of the year books about the school are really interesting. Page 10 tells about the advantages over other schools, including nutritious food and electricity.
You can read about the military department of the university here.
Two Bucklin Advertisements
Two Bucklin Advertisements on the same page. Shoes at the Bucklin Bros. mens clothing store owned by Joe and Ed Bucklin. And seed rice being sold by Louis Charles Bucklin.
The Jennings Daily Record., July 05, 1902.
Found at the Library of Congress Newspapers collection:
Escaped Prisoner Is Arrested As He Keeps Date
Detective Joseph Connors Sr. of Washington D.C. Police.
The Washington Times., November 14, 1922
From the Library of Congress‘ website.
Bucklin Bandstand
Our 63 year old 2 ton rice truck is now a bandstand! It is a 1952 Ford F-6 Truck. This is from the first generation of Ford’s F-Series trucks, originally introduced in 1948.
The H. R. Bucklin on the door stands for Herbert and Roy. They had a farming partnership named H. G. & Roy Bucklin. The door originally said A. H. Bucklin for Addie Hine Bucklin. To save money they apparently repainted only the first two letters after she died.
Up until Addie’s death in 1960, it was her farm, cattle, and equipment. Herbert and Roy were her employees and ran things for her. They had land of their own, but she owned most of 1,000 acres. Herbert bought some from her and Roy bought the old Hine land across Elton Road to the East.
Addie grew up east of the drier at the place the Bruchhaus call the Pecan grove (no pecans trees left now) on Elton Road. From Louis’ journal, we know Addie sometimes worked for the Bucklin family, probably cooking and cleaning. Betty Lou Bucklin Landry says that is how Addie Hine and Louis Bucklin met.
Other than some cleaning and recovering the seat, it is all as it was when it was last parked in our barn, except for the Mardi Gras outfit! The back was a flat bed with removable wood panels that made the bed. After cutting, rice would be loaded into the truck bed to take to the drier. Today that is done in an 18-wheeler.
Inside a narrow barn for decades, I had never got a good look at the truck until it was a bandstand. Here are a few photos of the truck last time I looked at the truck in 2007. The licence plate expired in 1977. The window was down again and animals had been living inside. It has a much better home now where it is protected from animals and can be appreciated.
