When Lewis Peeler Buckner was born on 1 March 1851, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States, his father, Hezekiah Buckner, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Austin Fox, was 36. He married Malinda Jane Vaughn on 24 November 1872, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Welch's Township, Macon, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 16 April 1928, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Conasauga, McMinn, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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German: variant of Buchner and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
English and Scottish: perhaps an occupational name derived from Middle English bouken ‘to soak (cloth) in a lye solution’, for the purpose of cleaning, bleaching, and strengthening.
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