Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Buxton was born on 16 November 1877, in Louisiana, United States, her father, William Harrison Buxton, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Evelyn Howard, was 23. She had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with William F Honeycutt. She lived in Ward Five, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States for about 20 years and Orange, Orange, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 24 April 1956, in Louisiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Starks, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States.
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- Lucy Buxton in household of William H Buxton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lucy Honeycutt, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Lucy Honeycutt in entry for Willie Buxton and Dessie Honeycutt, "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Buxton in Derbyshire, which in Middle English was called Buchestanes, Bucstones (i.e. ‘bowing stones’, from Middle English b(o)ugen, Old English būgan ‘to bow’ + stanes ‘stones’). It is probably named for logan stones in the vicinity. (Logan stones are boulders so poised that they rock at a touch.)
less commonly, a habitational name from Buxton in Norfolk, which is named with the genitive case of the Old English personal name Bucc (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘settlement, enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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