Willard Livere Bucklin b. 15 Nov 1863 Iowa, USA d. 25 Dec 1918 Byers, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA: Our Family History

1863 - 1918 (55 years)

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Name	Willard Livere Bucklin
Residence	Jun 1863	Iowa, USA [1]
	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]
Born	15 Nov 1863	Iowa, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
	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]
Gender	Male
Census	7 Jun 1880	Beaver township, Smith County, Kansas, USA [7]
	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 [2]
	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 [3]
	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 [4]
	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 [8]
	Listed as "miner."
Census	10 May 1910	Byers precinct, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA [9]
	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 [5]
	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
Died	25 Dec 1918	Byers, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA [5, 10, 11]
	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).
Newspaper Article	26 Dec 1918	Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA [11]
	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 [12]
	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 [13]
	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.
Person ID	I397	Gilmore-Donald
Last Modified	2 Sep 2016

Father	William Edwin Bucklin
Mother	Harriet Sophia Bradway, b. 8 Nov 1835
Married	Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA [6]
Family ID	F158	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Alice Melinda Gilmore, b. 23 Jul 1869, Macon County, Illinois, USA , d. 5 Dec 1952, Velma McNulty Nursing Home, Smith County, Kansas, USA (Age 83 years)

Married 28 Nov 1884 Smith County, Kansas, USA [14]

Children

+	1. Eugenia May Bucklin, b. 2 Oct 1885, Smith County, Kansas, USA , d. 18 Apr 1955, Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA (Age 69 years)
+	2. Harriet "Hattie" V. Bucklin, b. 25 Apr 1886, Smith County, Kansas, USA , d. 30 Dec 1918, Colorado, USA (Age 32 years)
	3. Alice Fern Bucklin, b. Abt 1889, Kansas, USA , d. Before 1895 (Age ~ 5 years)
+	4. George Edward Bucklin, b. 24 Aug 1891, Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA , d. 25 Jul 1940 (Age 48 years)
+	5. John Willard Bucklin, b. 7 Aug 1894, Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA , d. 7 May 1973, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA (Age 78 years)
	6. Minnie Bucklin, b. 7 Aug 1894, Kansas, USA , d. Before 1900, Kansas, USA (Age 5 years)

Last Modified 11 Aug 2015

Family ID F149 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Matilda E. Nelson

Married 12 Jan 1904 Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA [15]

Children

1. Baby Bucklin, b. 6 Sep 1905, d. 9 Sep 1905, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA

(Age 0 years)

Last Modified 29 Aug 2016

Family ID F224 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S334] "U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2015); 5th Congressional District, Iowa (June 1863), entry for Edwin Bucklin, age 34, married, born in Massachusetts.
[S296] 1885 Kansas State census, Smith County, population schedule, Beaver township, Smith Center, pp. 16-17, lines 27-29 [dwelling/household numbers not stated], W. L. Buckliin household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 August 2015); citing 1885 Kansas State Census, roll KS1885_131, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.
[S299] 1895 Kansas State census, Rawlins County, population schedule, Beaver township (Blakeman post office), p. 2, dwelling 7, family 7, W. L. Bucklin household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 August 2015); citing 1885 Kansas State Census, roll v.115_123, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.
[S331] 1900 U.S. census, Jefferson County, Colorado, population schedule Lamb Precinct, enumeration district (ED) 216, sheet 3A, p. 270a (stamped), dwelling 48, family 48, Ida [Cricketell?] household, for Willard L. Bucklin; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 124.
[S332] 1910 U.S. census, Clear Creek County, Colorado, population schedule, Precinct 16, Alice (including Pike National Forest), enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 9A (penned), p. 231a (stamped), dwelling 190, family 190, John F. Haminky household, for partner Willard L. Bucklin; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 112.
[S303] George Woolworth Colton, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton (Philadelphia, Penn. : privately printing, John Milton Colton, 1912), 142, genealogical entry no. 997, for Emeline Chauncey; digital image, Google Books (https://books.google.com : accessed 10 August 2015).
[S335] 1880 U. S. census, Smith County, Kansas, population schedule, Beaver township, enumeration district (ED) 303, p. 7 (penned), p. 363a (stamped), dwelling 72, family 74, Edwin Bucklin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 397.
[S333] Ballenger & Richards Thirty-Fifth Annual Denver City Directory for 1907 (Denver, Col. : Ballenger & Richards, 1907), 244, for Willard L. Bucklin; "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2015).
[S582] 1910 U.S. census, Arapahoe County, Colorado, population schedule, Byers precinct, enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 2A (penned), p. 213a (stamped), dwelling, 56, family 57, Willard Buckling household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 April 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 112. .
[S706] FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 August 2016), memorial 127869356, 12 April 2014, by "Plainsanimal" for Lavern Ernest Innes (1918-1918), citing Friends Creek Cemetery (Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA). Photo of cemetery marker and digital image of obituary.
[S712] "Will Bucklin a Suicide," Smith County Pioneer (Smith Center, Kan.), weekly, 26 December 1918, . 8, col. 3; KSHS microfilm S1092.
[S713] "Mother and Babe Both Dead," Smith County Pioneer (Smith Center, Kan.), 2 January 1919, p. 8, col. 4; SKHS microfilm S1092.
[S717] "William Bucklin [sic] a Suicide," Smith County Journal (Smith Center, Kan.), 2 January 1919, p. 1, col. 1; KSHS microfilm S1479.
[S295] Smith County, Kansas, Marriages, vol. B:32, Gilmore-Bucklin (1884), County Clerk, Smith Center, Kansas.
[S581] Colorado, Division of Vital Statistics, Marriage Record no. 2644, Jefferson County, for William [Willard] L. Bucklin-Matilda E. Nelson, 12 January 1904; digital image of carded record, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 April 2016), Colorado, Statewide Marriage Index, 1900-1939 > Brunk, Thomas J.-Burch, Floyd R. > image 1354; images hosted by FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org).