When Jane Pinkney Buckner was born on 9 December 1844, in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States, her father, Robert Robards Buckner, was 36 and her mother, Mary L Tate, was 34. She married Clagett Offutt on 9 December 1863, in Callaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in District 18, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Wilson Township, Audrain, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. She died on 17 December 1918, in Audrain, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Westminster Cemetery, Hatton, Callaway, Missouri, United States.
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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