Nettie Flora Buck

Brief Life History of Nettie Flora

When Nettie Flora Buck was born on 15 October 1882, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Benton Buck, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Ann Myers, was 27. She married Walter Eugene Brown on 10 May 1900. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 12 June 1966, in Gardena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83.

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Family Time Line

Walter Eugene Brown
1880–1959
Nettie Flora Buck
1882–1966
Marriage: 10 May 1900
Flora Eugenia Brown
1901–1964
Buelah Mae Brown
1904–1994
Hugh Benton Brown
1909–1997

Sources (10)

  • Nettie F Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Nettie F Brown, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Nettie Flora Buck in entry for Walter Broun, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English buc(ke) ‘male goat’ (Old English bucca) or a ‘male deer’ (Old English bucc). The goat was popularly associated with lecherous behaviour and the deer with timidity and speed. The surname may also be a shortened form of longer occupational names, for example Roger le Bucmanger' ‘dealer in bucks or venison’, (Warwickshire 1221) or Walter Bucswayn perhaps ‘goatherd’ (Somerset 1327).

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree, such as Peter atte Buk (Suffolk 1327), from Middle English buk ‘beech’ (from Old English bōc).

German and Dutch (Limburg): from a personal name, a short form of Burkhard (see Burkhart ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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