Willard Livere Bucklin

Other Events:

• Residence: Jun 1863, Iowa, USA; The family was living in the 5th district of Iowa in 1863, when his father was registered for the draft. The 5th district was in SW Iowa and included Des Moines. [For 5th district territory:, Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Kasson]
• Census: 7 Jun 1880, Beaver township, Smith County, Kansas, USA; 1. Bucklin, Edwin, white, male, 50, married, farmer, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Massachusetts 2. _____, Harrie S., white, female, 44, wife, married, keeping house, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Massachusetts 3. _____, Willie, white, male, 16, son, single, at home, Iowa, Massachusetts, Massachusetts [One household before David and Delia (Bradway) Jones]
• Census: 1885, Smith County, Kansas, USA; 1. Bucklin, W. L., 21, male, white, married, farmer, born Iowa, came to Kansas from Iowa 2. _____, A. M., 17, female, white, married, dishwasher, Illinois, came to Kansas from Illinois 3. _____, E., 55, male, white, single, farmer, [Massachussetts?], came to Kansas from Iowa
• Census: 1895, Beaver township, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA; 1. Bucklin, W. L., [31?], male, white, Iowa, Iowa 2. _____, A. M., 26, female, white, Illinois, Illinois 3. _____, E. M., 9, female, white, Kansas, Kansas 4. _____, H., 8, female, white, Kansas, Kansas 5. _____, G. E., [2?], male, Kansas, Kansas 6. _____, J., 6 months, male, Kansas, Kansas 7. _____, Minnie, 6 months, Kansas, Kansas
• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Lamb Precinct, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA; 1. Cricktell, Ida, head, white, female, May 1855, 44, married 20 years, 3 children 3 living, New York, New York, New York, postmistress, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule no. 1 2. _____, Charles R son, white, male, September 1883, 16, single, Illinois, England, New York, can read and write 3. _____, Dorothy I., daughter, white, female, February 1888, 12, Illinois, England, New York, attended school 9 months, can read and write 4. _____, Mary E. L., daughter, white, female, February 1890, 10, Illinois, England, New York, attending school 9 months, can read and write 5. Bucklin, Willard L., employee, white, male, November 1859, 41, divorced, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Vermont, miner [2 more illegible words], can read and write [3 additional apparent boarders, a blacksmith, a miner, and a servant]
• Residence: 1907, S. Kalamath and W. Florida Ave., Denver, Denver Co CO; Listed as "miner."
• Census: 10 May 1910, Byers precinct, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA; 1. Bucklin, Willard, head, male, white, 50, second marriage, married 6 years, Kansas, Tennessee, Kansas, miner, gold mine, wage earner, can read and write 2. _____, Matilda, wife, female, white, 43, second marriage, married 6 years, 6 children 3 living, Tennessee, Kansas, Tennessee, farmer, general farm, own account, can read and write 3. Nelson, Minnie, step daughter, female, white, 18, single, Colorado, Missouri, [Sweden?], can read and write 4. _____, Emma, step daughter, female, white, 11, Colorado, Missouri, Sweden, attending school, can read and write 5. Phillips, Nancy J., grand mother, female, white, 78, single, 11 children 7 living, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write
• Census: 26 May 1910, Alice (Pike National Forest), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA; 1. Haminky, John F., head, male, white, 37, single, Iowa, Germany, Germany, manager, gold mine, can read and write, owns house free of mortgage 2. Bucklin, Willard L., male, white, 50, second marriage, married 5 years, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Vermont, miner, can read and write
• Newspaper Article: 26 Dec 1918, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA; Will Bucklin a Suicide. "A telegram last night to George Bucklin of Washington township notified him of the suicide yesterday at Byers, Colo., of his father, George Bucklin. George took a train this morning for the scene. Over 25 years ago, Will Bucklin was quite a well known fellow in this city and vicinity. But he and his wife could not agree and after the separation Will went west, and afterwards remarried. His wife and three children still live in this county. The children are Mrs. Arch Wilson and George of this place, and John of Athol."
• Obituary: After 30 Dec 1918, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA; Mother and Babe Both Dead Cliff Innes and four motherless children have the deep sympathy of our people in the bereavement that came to them Monday, through the death of Mrs. Innes and one of a pair of twin boys to whom she gave birth on that date. The other twin is alive as this is written. Mrs. Innes had been in failing health for some time, and her husband brought her back here from Sterling, Colo., about ten days ago in hopes that a lower altitude would help her, but childbirth proved too much for one in her weakened condition. Funeral services were held this forenoon and the bodies of the mother and babe in the same coffin were laid to rest in Fairview cemetery. Mrs. Innes, a daughter of Mrs. Will Bucklin of this city, was aged 30 years, 8 months and 6 days, and had lived practically all her life in Smith county. Besides her husband, children and mother she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Arch Wilson, and two brothers, George ofWashington township, and John, of Athol. Only last week we carried a news item about the suicide of their father, Will Bucklin, at Byers, Colo.
• Newspaper Article: 2 Jan 1919, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA; William [sic] Bucklin a Suicide It is reported that William Bucklin killed himself recently at his home in Colorado. His sons, George and John, returned this morning, having gone there to attend the funeral.

Notes:

Birth:
Census data varies widely as to his age and calculated birth year. Most internet family trees give a date of 15 November 1863 for his birth. The Colton book gives the latter, as well.

Place of birth differs, as well. Often given as Hampden County, Massachusetts, but also seen as Iowa. His first two Kansas state census stated birthplace Iowa, as did his 1880 census in the home with his parents, offering an age of 16. It seems likely that he was born in Iowa.

His father's 1863 U.S. draft registration was in the 5th Congressional District of Iowa (representing 22 counties in the SW quadrant of Iowa), which supports his birth in Iowa.

[Wikipedia entry for the 5th district of Iowa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Kasson]



Died:
Obit for his daughter Harriet V. (Bucklin) Innes who died in Dec 1918 states that the paper ran an article the previous week on her father's suicide in Byers, CO. Have asked Rebecca Christensen to find both articles for me (28 Aug 2016).

Willard married Alice Melinda Gilmore on 28 Nov 1884 in Smith County, Kansas, USA. Alice (daughter of George W. Gilmore and Vienna Arthusa Pratt) was born on 23 Jul 1869 in Macon County, Illinois, USA; died on 5 Dec 1952 in Velma McNulty Nursing Home, Smith County, Kansas, USA; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eugenia May Bucklin was born on 2 Oct 1885 in Smith County, Kansas, USA; died on 18 Apr 1955 in Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA.
2. Harriet "Hattie" V. Bucklin was born on 25 Apr 1886 in Smith County, Kansas, USA; died on 30 Dec 1918 in Colorado, USA; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA.
3. Alice Fern Bucklin was born about 1889 in Kansas, USA; died before 1895.
4. George Edward Bucklin was born on 24 Aug 1891 in Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA; died on 25 Jul 1940; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA.
5. John Willard Bucklin was born on 7 Aug 1894 in Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA; died on 7 May 1973 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA.
6. Minnie Bucklin was born on 7 Aug 1894 in Kansas, USA; died before 1900 in Kansas, USA.

Willard married Matilda E. Nelson on 12 Jan 1904 in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baby Bucklin was born on 6 Sep 1905; died on 9 Sep 1905 in Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA; was buried in Littleton Cemetery, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA.

William married Harriet Sophia Bradway in Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA. Harriet (daughter of Calvin Bradway and Emeline Chauncey) was born on 8 Nov 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Calvin married Emeline Chauncey in Stafford, Connecticut, USA. Emeline was born on 16 Jan 1810; died in Nov 1865 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]