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The Old Bucklin Place

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I was reminded this week that I now have a share in some property that my great grandparents owned.  The great grandparents in question were Louis and Addie Hine Bucklin.  When Addie died in November 1960, it was left to her children, including my grandfather Fred Bucklin.  Once Fred and Myrtle died, his share was split between their children.  After my mom’s death, her share was split between her children.

Bucklin land in Hathaway circa 1929

This photo shows the area in Hathaway where the Bucklins lived.  In the foreground was the nursery owned by Fred and Clarence Bucklin around 1929.  From what I’ve heard, my grandfather and his identical twin brother started out in business together with a nursery.  Later on there was some type of falling out and they then had their own separate nurseries about a mile apart out in the sparsely populated Hathaway/China community.

In the background on the left is the home of Louis and Addie Bucklin.  It was a large two-story house that was built in 1888.  I’m not sure when the family bought this house.  Louis and his family came to Louisiana in 1884 from Iowa.  They came by train, which brought their belongings including cattle and horses.  Addie and her family came in 1894 from Indiana.  Louis and Addie were married on June 12, 1898, and started their large family shortly afterward.

I like being from a large family.  There is a drawback, though.  You have to share everything.  That original land was divided between 10 descendants.  The 1/10th my grandfather got was divided between his 5 children.  That 1/5th my mom got was divided between her 6 children.  That makes my share 1/300th.  So you could just say that I own that small little shrub and the dirt around it in the foreground of this photo.   Woo hoo!  I come from the largest family in each generation, so it’s the smallest share of all the great grandkids.

And that’s more than okay… Yes, it is perfectly okay… I assure you (and myself) that it is indeed okay.

Stanbrough or Hine?

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The family of George Hine and Susan Stanbrough with relatives (presumably) circa 1898.

Here is an old photo from the collection.  Maybe I should say it is from the collective.  (Resistance is futile!)  It is from a collection of photos from my mom’s side of the family.  My grandfather’s sisters collected old photos and passed them on to my mom’s cousin Louise.  She and her son Joseph have scanned them and generously share them with family, including me.  This photo has been edited quite a bit to clean it up and make repairs.  Joseph started it and then shared it with me.  I cleaned it up a bit more and brought it to this version.

The first version I ever saw was quite decrepit.  I’ll tell you why.  It looks like one of the things that Louise did was to print out many of these old photos and made photocopies.  Then she went around (or mailed them out) asking the aunts and cousins to identify as many of the people as they could.  There were some identifications attributed to my mom.  She had a good memory for many years and was pretty good at recognizing those old relatives.  The famed family historian Edith Keys Segraves was questioned for some of those photos.

For this photo, Edna Bucklin Keys was consulted.  She identified the older couple sitting to the right as “Grandpa” and “Susan Stanbrough Hine.”  On the left border of the photo it read “Stanbrough family?”  Evidently no one knew who the other people in this photo were, but it was assumed that they were family.  I tend to agree.

1898 – Detail with names

I’m pretty sure that their daughter Addie Hine is standing behind Grandpa George Hine and Grandma Sue.  (Addie was the mother of my maternal grandfather Fred Bucklin.) She is usually standing behind her parents in photos, and in some she has her hand on her mother’s shoulder.  I recognize their sons from other photos that I’ve seen.

On the right is their son Rowe.  To the left of Addie is Jim and the next male to the left is Lonnie (also in dark jacket).  The youngest son Ollie is sitting on the ground and also wearing a dark jacket.  There is another son named Bert and I assume that it is him standing behind Addie.

The other people in the photo are a mystery.  As Aunt Edna indicated, they could be extended Stanbrough family. Grandma Sue had eleven siblings and one older half brother. The other possibility is that the others were part of the extended Hine family.  Grandpa George had six siblings.  Both sides of the family lived in Indiana.

I’m thinking this was two families taking a photograph together.  The older woman sitting on the left and the man standing next to her are likely the parents or grandparents of the other people in the photo.  I looked through my family tree to see if any family grouping looked similar in structure to the one in the photo, but I don’t think I have enough information to come to any conclusion.  So a mystery they remain.

In the meantime I will be looking to see if anyone from those extended Stanbrough and Hine families post the same photo or photos of the same people.  If you perchance should know who any of them are, do let me know.  I would greatly appreciate it.

Kaleidoscopes and Postcards

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A week or so ago, my cousin Rhonda introduced me to an app for the phone that acts like a kaleidoscope.  I should have known better than to get it!  I’ve taken hundreds of photos with it.  It’s amazing how such random and sometimes ugly items can make such interesting patterns.  I figured it would only be a matter of time before I would tie it into my genealogy.

A kaleidoscope combo

I’ve been thinking of sharing an old postcard that my mom had for a while.  It’s a note written to my mom (Betty Lou Bucklin Landry) from her paternal grandmother (Addie Mae Hine Bucklin). I was thinking I should maybe incorporate a photo of Addie in the post along with the card.

So I decided to do a mix-up of the two.  This kaleidoscopic image is composed of the postcard and a photo of Addie from an old family photo that I posted previously.  I thought it had an interesting look to it, so I’m sharing it along with the postcard.

The image from the postcard is a lookout tower from Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1947.  From time to time in reading about the Bucklin and Hine family, I see mentions about the family living in Arkansas for a while.  For some reason I thought it was something therapeutic about the hot springs that drew them there.  I always thought it was for Addie’s husband Lou, who seemed to have health issues.  I suppose most people have health issues if they live long enough, but he died when he was 54.  Since he was born in 1873, that puts his death as 1927.  So he wouldn’t have been alive for a while when this postcard was sent.

There are a few old photos from 1941 that show the Bucklin family with the Clement family from Arkansas.  I thought they were a family that the Bucklins met when they lived in Arkansas.  If that was the case, why did Mama get a postcard from her Grandma Bucklin dated June 16, 1947?

If you read the card, you can see that she had been there for three weeks.  She wasn’t alone and states that they “are both doing O. K.”  She mentions a Mary in it.  I assume she is talking about her daughter Mary Bucklin Phenice.  She also says that she can’t walk very far “yet.”  That makes it sound like she’s planning on staying for a while.

When I search further, I find more information that leads to even more unanswered questions.  In May of 1906 the Jennings newspaper reported: “Lew Bucklin and family left Tuesday for Siloam Springs, Arkansas, to spend the summer for Mr. Bucklin’s health.”  That must be the health issues I remember hearing about.  Then in October of 1906 the paper reported: “L. C. Bucklin has returned with his family from Siloam Springs and is occupying his residence in Roanoke.”  What?  I thought he was a farmer?  How can he afford to be away for a large part of the growing season?

Postcard from Addie in Arkansas to Louie in Louisiana in 1913

Then there is a letter I found from September of 1912 that was written from Addie in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, to Louie in Jennings, Louisiana.  She writes, “I wish you were here now.”  Why wasn’t he there?  I thought he was the one that needed the recuperative powers of the hot springs?  Is Prairie Grove even near the hot springs?  There is also another letter from her to him in August of 1913.  That must be the time period that they lived in Arkansas.  In the letter I shared from Addie’s mother Sue in 1916, she says that Addie and the folks had just moved back to Louisiana.

As you can see, little bits of information here and there, but nothing that really explains it all.  It does give me information about them that I never would have thought of.  I always pictured them living in their primitive homes on the southern Louisiana prairie year after year.  I actually thought that they never went anywhere!  Ever.  They were poor farmers and homesteaders who were developing the land with no electricity.

Now, come to find out, they were summering at the spas in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  And it wasn’t just Lou and Addie.  It was the whole family.  And according to another newspaper article,  Addie’s parents George and Sue spent a month there as well.  That was in 1906 and it may not have been the first time.  And it sounds like it continued off and on at least until 1947.

Can you believe it?  That would mean that this would have been happening in 1938, when my mom’s family was “too poor” for little Betty Lou to have a “real doll.”  So when my mom got all excited about getting her photo taken with a “real doll,” some family members were having sauna holidays.  And all my mom got was a measly postcard!

A Dash at the Bash

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I really like this old photo.  It was probably not something that was cherished, however.  It is a bit of a blurry photo.  I think it came from my second cousin Joseph Connors (his maternal grandfather Herbert Bucklin was the brother of my maternal grandfather Fred).  He found an envelope of old negatives from a special event back in the 1920s.

Oct. 3, 1926 – Grandma Sue with her family at her birthday bash.

The special event was Grandma Sue (Susan G. Stanbrough Hine, maternal grandmother of Herbert and Fred) and her good friend Jennie’s (Edessa Jane Welton Havenar, grandmother of our Keys family historian Edith Keys Segraves) joint birthday celebration.  They both had an October 3 birthday and they celebrated together with a joint celebration for at least 20 years.  I know that because there was a newspaper article about that big celebration in 1926.  There were lots of photos taken of family and friends.

You’ve already seen some of the large group photos of most of the attendees because Joseph and I have shared them previously.  Then there were a few pictures of Grandma Sue with her children and grandchildren.  And then there’s this photo.  It might have been a throwaway photo that only survived because the negatives were grouped together.

But I like the photo.  It’s a photo of the family and it includes Grandma Sue, her daughter Addie (my great grandmother), some of her sons, grandsons, and granddaughters.  The fun thing about the photo is its defect.  It’s either a double exposure with the second exposure being a long one, or it was a long exposure and people didn’t realize it.  Because you can see one of the granddaughters in two places.  You can see that she was initially standing in beside Grandma Sue and then she must have made a mad dash to get to somewhere else.

You can also see one of the Hine men (a brother of Addie) on the right is turning around to look toward the men who are talking in front of their sporty new cars.  Another granddaughter on the left with a Y type collar can be seen walking away to the left.  You can just make out some of the feet of people who have moved forward after the first exposure (or after the initial exposure.)

Meanwhile it looks like Grandma Sue hasn’t moved a bit.  It was her 75th birthday celebration after all.  She might have slowed down a little at that point.  So the picture captures more than just a split second from that day.  It captures some of the movement as well.  It’s the closest thing we have to a video or Live photo from back then.

Article from the Jennings Daily Times Record from Dec. 12, 1906

I thought I would also share an article I found that relates to this annual birthday celebration.  This is part of page 8 of the Jennings Daily Times Record from Dec. 12, 1906.  They are giving the news from the Raymond area.  The first few articles are about people I don’t know nor recognize any names.  Then there is a little blurb about some of the Hine family visiting in Jennings.

After that is some information about the weather and how it affects the farmers of the area.  It’s interesting to see what they wrote in the papers back then.  I’m glad they did, because I have been able to find some interesting articles about my family.  Like the next part of the column.

It talks about the goings on of the birthday celebration in 1906, back when Grandma Sue was just 55 years old.  Younger than I am now.  Even though the main course was oysters, which I don’t really care for, I’m sure there were other tasty items on the menu that I could have enjoyed.  It’s obvious that people were having a good time.  I suppose this was the first celebration and it was such a hit that they decided to continue with it.

I do enjoy these old photos and articles about my family.  It makes them much more personable to me.  And the photos from the birthday celebration are great because so many family members were in attendance.  Not just my Hine family, but the Bucklin, Keys, and Phenice ones as well.  A veritable family smorgasbord.

Homesteading in Southern Louisiana

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I recently wrote about how my Landry family came to southern Louisiana.  That was 250 years ago and it was before the United States was formed.  My mom’s side of the family came here more recently.  Not all at the same time, but pretty close.  The main lure was the opening up of this area by railroad and an offering of land for homesteading.

I found some documents online last week that show when the homestead papers were filed for some of my ancestors.  They keep putting more and more historical information online.  Of course, I have to look in the right places to find those things that are already there.  So I was excited to find these records that I hadn’t seen before.  They pretty much support the information I had concerning when my ancestors arrived in southern Louisiana.  The first group to arrive here was the Bucklin family.

1884 register of homesteads in southern Louisiana

The names on the register start with my great, great grandfather James Bucklin.  He and two of his children – Joseph and Jennie – filed for homestead claims on April 2, 1884.  They had come from Hampden County, Massachusetts, by way of Coffins Grove, Iowa.  Even though her name is not on the register, my Irish great great grandmother Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin was involved with the whole endeavor as well.

My great grandfather Louis was only 11 years old at the time and was not able to file a claim of his own.  He did work on the claim and kept a journal for many years about the day to day farming that was done.  I remember seeing the name of Shoesmith in that journal and now I see it on this homestead register.

1887 homestead register for southern Louisiana

According to the information I found, the next to show up in the area was Martha Ann Keys.  Her claim was filed on November 11, 1887.  She was born in England and had arrived in America with her five children just four months earlier.  I know they lived in a chicken house for a while (thank you Thomas Lord MacVey!), but I’m not sure how long it was before a house was built.  A photo of the house they lived in has information on the back that says the house was built in 1888.  Another factor that comes into play was the second husband of Martha Keys.

“What’s that?” you ask, “Another husband?  Say it isn’t so!”  Yes, there was another husband that isn’t talked about much.  It was in the days before social media, after all.  She and William T. Davis were married for only a short time because she got rid of him.  It was said that she did not like the way he treated the kids.  (Maybe they had gotten in the habit of scratching the floor with their toes – you know, like chickens! – and it drove him crazy and he’d send them to the barn.)  Whatever the issue was, they didn’t stay together.

This next part doesn’t make sense to me.  In the family history book it says she lost her claim because of this marriage.  In the register you can see that the claim was “cancelled for relinquishment” on  November 13, 1889, which is just over two years after the start of the claim.  She never divorced Mr. Davis, but did not take his name.  Details have a way of being lost with the death of a few generations.  (An interesting name on this page in the register is Thomas Buller, who I think is the great grandfather of Pam Buller.)

1892 register for homestead in southern Louisiana

Our next arrival was the Hine family from Indiana.  This claim was dated February 10, 1896, though other information says they arrived in Louisiana in 1894.  The name on the register is George H. Hine, my great great grandfather.  He came was his wife Sue and their six children ranging in ages from 10 to 20.  The oldest was my great grandmother Addie.

To help out with the family or possibly to earn some money on her own, Addie would help people with chores around the house.  One of these people that she helped was Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin, whose son Lou just happened to be the right age for marrying.  (Lou’s journal entry for July 6, 1896 – I went over & got Miss Hines to help mother, she commenced work at noon.)  Addie and Lou were married in 1898.  (Notice the name in the register under George Hine.  It is Henry Kohl, an ancestor of Joseph Connors.)

H. C. Phenice signed Daisy’s autograph book on Dec. 24, 1900, which was three days before their marriage.

That leaves the Phenice side of my mom’s family.  That generation of the Phenice family did not immigrate to southern Louisiana.  They were from Pennsylvania and had homesteaded in Nebraska.  One brave son name Harry – my great grandfather – came to Louisiana seeking his fortune.  Why he came to Louisiana is a mystery.  But he arrived in 1898 at the age of 24.

He did not homestead.  At least I have never heard of him homesteading and did not find a record of it.  And according to the verse he wrote in Daisy Keys’ autograph book, he found his fortune in a little English girl.  He said she was “all to me.”  They were married in 1900 and lived in the China/Hathaway area for the rest of their lives.  Though they did spend a year in Colorado hoping to find that monetary fortune at a gold mine at Cripple Creek.

So that’s how those families came together to bring about my maternal grandparents and my mom.  They came from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Indiana, England, and Ireland with dreams and ready for hard work.  I, for one, am glad they did.

My mom’s family tree.

Grandpa Bucklin’s Grandma Sue

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George and Susan Hine circa 1890

This post is about my maternal grandfather’s Hine grandparents.  My mom was Betty Lou Bucklin Landry and her father was Fred Bucklin.  He had his maternal grandmother for quite a while, because she died shortly before my mom was born in 1933.  She died on March 29th and mom was born May 20th when grandpa was only 25 years old.  Grandpa’s mother was Addie Hine Bucklin, who was the daughter of George Hine and Susan G. Stanbrough Hine.

This photo is of George and Susan in around 1890.  I’m not really sure of the date, but comparing it to the other photos of this couple, that is the best estimation that I have.  The other photos of them are with children and grandchildren.  This is the only one that I’ve seen of just the two of them.

Transcribed letter of Sue Hine from 1916

The reason I chose this photo and called the post what I did was because of two letters I found recently on Ancestry.  These two letters were written by Susan Stanbrough Hine.  The first one was written in 1916.  It was written to her brother Joseph B. Stanbrough.  It must have been included as a short note with a letter addressed to his granddaughter Eula Stanbro (daughter of Orville C. Stanbrough).  It was written shortly after the death of their brother Nelson, who was the oldest of the eleven siblings in the family.  (There was an older half brother named Albert Stanbrough who died in 1854 and another brother Lucius that died as an infant in 1855.)  Albert was born in 1839, Nelson in 1844, Joseph B. in 1845, and Susan in 1851.

The second letter was written in 1923 after the death of another brother Jim.  He was born the year before Susan and moved to Louisiana with Susan and her family.  In the first letter she mentions him and it seems like he lives with the family.  This letter was written to Eula’s younger sister Nola Stanbro.

Transcribed letter of Sue Hine from 1923

I don’t know the person who posted the letters on Ancestry, and the only thing that was posted were transcripts of the letters.  I sent a request to see the original letters, because I’d like to see the handwriting of my great great grandmother.  The letters seem legitimate, because they talk about the Hine and Bucklin families with details that only family would have known about.  My favorite part of the letters is the way she signed them.  In the first one (directed to her brother), she signs off as Sister Sue.  I always thought of her as Susan because that’s her given name and she always looks a bit stern in the photos.  I wondered if that’s what her family called her, or was it just this one brother.  When I saw the second letter I found my answer.  She signed off on the second letter as Aunt Sue.

So now and forevermore she will be known to me as Grandma Sue.  I like knowing the name that people went by when they were alive.  It’s a little more personal.  It would also be a bit more personal if I had a scan of the actual letters that were written.  But for now all we have are the transcripts, which are great in themselves.  One day I hope that will change and I can share scans of the letters with everyone.

Mom and siblings’ family tree with Stanbrough line highlighted. On the right is a list of the family of Grandma Sue.

George and Susan’s Eighteen in ’19

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George and Susan with their 18 in ’19. A nice old family photo from almost a hundred years ago.

George Henry Hine and his wife Susan G. Stanbrough Hine had eighteen living grandchildren in 1919. Their daughter Addie’s fifth child did not make it past infancy or there would be one more in this photo.  There are actually more people in the photo.  It includes their six children and a few unidentified people who are most likely family.

Before I get too far, let me remind you who George and Susan are to me.  I am Van Landry and my mother was Betty Lou Bucklin Landry.  Her father was Fred Bucklin who is one of the twin boys standing directly behind George (the seated man).  The twins’ mother Addie Hine Bucklin (my great grandmother) is standing directly behind them.  Addie’s parents are George and Susan, who are my great great grandparents.  I’ve actually posted two other photos previously that were taken at the same occasion, though they were of smaller groups than this.

What’s that you ask?  ‘Who are all of those people?’ Well I already told you who the important ones are, so I suppose you want me to name everyone.  So that is what I will attempt to do.  I think we’ve settled it now that George and Susan are the older couple sitting in the front of all of their progeny.  They were from Indiana and while there, they had their six children.  They then moved to Louisiana in 1894 where the children grew up and started families of their own.

Hine family group in 1919 with name designations.

Addie was the first one born and she was the first one to provide them with a grandchild.  She is the one with the big A on her head in the second photo.  She was married to Louis Charles Bucklin, but he rarely showed up in photos.  Their first child was Leo (A1) who was born in 1898.  According to a letter written by Susan in 1916, Leo had an accident with a saw blade that left him “a cripple.”  Leo did walk with a limp for the rest of his life.  Next was Mary (A2) who was born in 1900.  Ralph (A3) was born in 1902 and he later had a daughter named Helen.  In 1903 Addie and Lou had a son named Paul, but he was the one that did not live past infancy, so he is not in the photo.

In 1904 a son named Carl (A5) was born.  The photos from this date are the only ones of him that I know of.  When he was very young, he lost his hearing and never learned to speak.  I don’t know if there were any other learning deficiencies or just that there was no Anne Sullivan out in the country in 1919, but I don’t think he had an education.  When my mom was a kid, she was kind of scared of him.  He stayed up in his room a lot, but sometimes he came down to sit on “his nail keg in the kitchen.”

On to number A6.  That would be Herbert born in 1906, who was the grandfather of Joseph.  Too bad Herbert is mostly hidden behind an unidentified boy in the photo.  Clarence (A7) and Fred (A8) came along in 1907.  Clarence is the father of Carla, and Fred is the grandfather of me and all my maternal cousins.  In 1909 Edna (A9) was born.  One of her sons was Mel Keys (my mom’s first cousin through the Bucklins and 2nd cousin through the Keys) who helped to build the working model of the Starship Enterprise for the original Star Trek series.  And he is the father of Steven and Teresa.

The tenth child of Addie and Louis was Robert (A0) who was born in 1911.  He’s sitting in the front looking a little sad.  We have seen that same look time and again from his mother.  I’ve given her a hard time about it on these blog posts, but look at her mother Susan.  She has a big frown on her face as well.  I guess Addie came by that scowl honestly.  Yet there is a photo of Susan with a smile on it from this same day.  I’ll save that for a special occasion!

Back to the list of people – particularly the children of Addie.  We’ve already named ten!  But there are two more to go.  In 1915 she had another set of twins.  Not identical ones this time.  A girl by the name of Ruth (AA) was born with a boy named Roy (AB).  Ruth is the matriarch of the Bruchhaus branch of our family and Roy was the father of Jeannette and Doris.

On now to the second child of George and Susan.  Take heart, some of them did not have any children at all.  After Addie was born in 1876, along came Bert in 1878.  He was married to Anna Jones (BW) and they had three children.  Leta (B1) was born in 1912, Wanda (B2) was born in 1917, and Harold was born in 1921.  Being that the photo was taken in 1919, Harold can not be seen in the photo.

Harrison Rowe is the next child of George and Susan.  Rowe was born in 1880 and he was married to a woman named Electra (or May).  She may be the dark haired woman standing in front of Rowe, but I don’t have any identified photos of her.  They did not have any children that I know of.

Lonnie was born in 1882 and he was married to Millie (LW).  They had two children and they both show up in this photo.  Arthur Henry (L1) was born in 1905 and Alta Zay (L2) was born in 1912.  Jim was born in 1884 and he was married to Dorinda Thomas (JW) who had been a teacher at Nubbin Ridge in the Hathaway area.  They had four children together.  Aulden (J1) was born in 1908.  He graduated from Jennings High School in 1926 (the year after my grandmother Myrtle Phenice Bucklin) and lived the rest of his life in Jennings, Louisiana.  Audrey (J2) was born in 1910.  The baby at the time was Kenneth (J3) who is in his daddy’s arms.  Later on another daughter was born. Her name was Darlene and she was born in 1923.  She was married to Dalton Landry in Jennings.  I remember being confused about this when I was a kid.  They were Landrys but they were related to us from Mama’s side of the family?  What?  It doesn’t seem confusing at all now.

The last child of George and Susan was Ollie who was born in 1886.  He was a mama’s boy.  When he was younger he dated a girl, but he was too connected to his mom to allow the relationship to become more serious.  I’m not sure if he lived with both parents at this time, but after his father died later this year, the 1920 census shows him living with his mom and her 70 year old brother James Stanbrough.  Ollie lived with his mother until she died in 1933 and only married after that time.  He was a mama’s boy.

But Susan must have been a loving person.  She seemed fond of her children and grandchildren.  She also had her brother living with her family for many years.  He came down from Indiana with her family and he never married as well.  I don’t know his story.  He may be one of the identified men in this photo – possibly the bearded man in the back left.  There is also another adult man, an adult women, and some children who are unaccounted for.  I wish I knew who they were.

Well, that’s it. Thanks for traveling back to 1919 with me.  I hope you enjoyed it.  But most of all I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Hein/Hine – My German Roots

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When I was growing up I always thought my mom’s side of the the family was German and English.  For some reason I always assumed that the German came from the Bucklin line of the family.  When I was in high school, I took on the task of reading (and recording on cassette tape) my great grandfather Louis Charles Bucklin’s journal from 1893.  This was for the benefit of my grandfather Fred Bucklin because he had vision problems.  (Note from Sept. 21, 2019: For the first time I’m thinking this might have also been a way my grandfather tried to get me interested in his own family history.  The journal was his father’s and it had been around all of his life.)

I remember coming across an entry where he talks about a man from Ohio (with two of the “finest daughters“) who asks him if he was German.  Lou tells him “No, I am an Irishman.”  When I read that, I thought that he was lying to the man from Ohio to put him off because he was not interested.  I just knew that he was German and not Irish.  But I was wrong.  His mother was a full blooded Irish woman with the last name of McGrath and the Bucklins are of English descent.

But Lou’s wife Addie Hine’s family line (my Grandpa Fred’s mother Addie Hine), on the other hand, is German.  I’ve come across some information recently that makes me much more certain of the line that goes back to Germany.  Since I don’t have a photo of the Hein family that immigrated from Germany to the US (it was in 1753 after all), I am posting a photo of the Hine family just before they immigrated to Louisiana in 1894.

Hine family in 1892 in Boone County, Indiana. From left to right is Rowe, Jim, George, Ollie, Addie, Susan, Bert, and Lonnie. (Could the dog be Sammy?)

This is the George Henry Hine family in Boone County, Indiana, in 1892.  As you can see, it is a very rustic existence with a log cabin.  All of the family was born in Indiana.  But they were born in Noblesville, Indiana, which is in the neighboring county of Hamilton.  I know that George’s wife Susan Stanbrough Hine’s family was from the Noblesville area.  But I just recently found that George had some family members living in Boone County.

In a previous post I talked about how I discovered that George’s mom Malina’s maiden name was Cox.  Now I’ve discovered that Malina’s father’s name was Benjamin Cox.  I found a will for him that is from Boone County at his death in 1877.  It lists a daughter by the name of Maline Cox Hines.  Don’t be concerned with the spelling, like I said before, they did not have the Myrtle Phenice spelling gene!  His history shows him as being from North Carolina, which is where Malina was born.  It all fits together nicely.  It also might explain why the family moved from Hamilton County to Boone County.

George was born in Hamilton county in 1846 (and died in 1919) and showed up with the family there through the 1870 census.  Then the family shows up in Boone County in the 1880 census.  They stayed there until they moved to Louisiana in 1894.  In the meantime the kids were going to school, as can be evidenced by this certificate that Addie received for attendance that was dated June 4, 1892.

So let me take you back to Germany along the Hine line.  George’s father was John Peter Hine (1819-1900).  He was the first in this line to use the more English spelling of Hine rather than the German spelling of Hein.  It looks like the extended family did likewise.  Some of the later generations also changed the spelling to Hines, but our family line stuck with Hine.  John Peter was born in Bethabara, North Carolina, and moved to Indiana in 1841.

John Peter’s father was Peter Hein.  He was born in 1794 in Bethabara, North Carolina, and lived his whole life in Forsyth County, North Carolina.  He died a few months after the birth of John Peter.  (Actually he died before the birth of John Peter.  I should pay a little closer attention to the dates! For more information, read Becoming a Father Posthumously) This explains why John Peter was his only child.  All of the other generations had at least five children.

Peter’s father was Johannes or John Hein (1749-1806). He immigrated with his father Johann Jacob Hein (1713-1795) in October of 1753 from Germany.  They were both born in Dillenburg, Germany, and when they immigrated, they originally settled in Broad Bay, Maine.  Then in 1770 they moved with a group of 300 people to a Moravian settlement in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina.

John Hein was the son of Jacob’s first wife who died in Germany.  Jacob remarried in 1752 and immigrated with his new wife and his children in 1753.  They were part of the Moravian church.  The church had many missions and settlements in the New World.  One of those settlements was Bethabara, which is where the Hein family settled in 1770.  Johann Jacob Hein died in 1795 and is buried in the Friedland Moravian God’s Acre.  His legacy carries on.

Roy Bucklin Home

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Ronnie Collins asked if I had some old photos of his house which was built in 1886. Before it was Roy Bucklin’s house, it was a Hine home so there should be plenty of photos in the family. I found these two I sent him a while back. I have probably scanned more, just have to find them, my scans aren’t very well organized and labeled. If you have any, I am sure Ronnie would appreciate seeing them and so would I.

The first photo is Doris, Roy, and Jeannette Bucklin. The second is Jeannette.

Great Grandpa Lou

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Great grandmother and great granddaughter.

Addie Hine Bucklin with great grandchild number five Jodie Lou Landry in 1954.

This photo makes me smile.  It almost makes me laugh out loud.  The photo causes me to smirk with a soft chuckle.  It’s cute.  It’s sweet.  But it’s a little blurry.  I cleaned it up a bit, but I can’t make it clear.  There’s only so much you can do in photo editing.

I still like it quite a bit.  That’s kind of obvious since I’m using it for this week’s post.  The little girl in the photo is my oldest sister Jodie.  She was born on October 14, 1953, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.  She died on November 5, 1989 in Franklin, Texas.  Way too young.

Our mom was Betty Lou Bucklin Landry, who was the daughter of Fred Bucklin.  Fred’s mother was Addie Hine Bucklin, the other subject in this photo.  So she was the great grandmother of little Jodie in this photo.  And yet there is another person in the photo.

The other person in the photo is shown in a photo on the wall above the other two.  It’s a photo from 1905 of Addie when she was young married woman and her husband Louis Charles Bucklin, sometimes known as Lou.  In recent letters I’ve seen he was called that in 1893 by his peers.  And even though he died in 1927, he was still influencing my family much later on.

One of those influences was in 1933 when my mom was born.  There was talk of naming her Addie Lou in honor of both of Fred’s parents.  Addie was adamantly against that.  She did not want that cute little granddaughter of hers saddled with such an old fashioned name as Addie.  So mom was named Betty Lou and I have to say that the name really suited her.

Then when Jodie was born in 1953, her middle name was Lou as well.  So shortly after this photo was taken, Jodie would have started to talk a bit.  I’m not sure of the time frame.  But when she was learning what to call herself and her parents, she got a bit mixed up.  But in a good way.  She knew that she was Jodie Lou.  She knew that mom was Betty Lou.  I suppose that sometimes she was Mama Lou, because when she learned to call daddy “Pappy” she naturally ended up calling him Pappy Lou.

I’ve heard the Pappy Lou story all of my life, and I always thought it was a sweet story.  So when I found this negative and scanned it earlier this week, it reminded me of that story so much.  I don’t remember ever seeing the photo before.  And like I said at first, it’s cute.  It’s sweet.  And it’s appropriate that great grandpa Lou shows up in the photo.

Here is another photo from the same visit.

Three generations

Betty Lou Bucklin Landry, Addie Hine Bucklin, and Jodie Lou Landry in 1954.

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