Elizabeth Lord Buckley

Female27 March 1890–24 September 1920

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Lord

Elizabeth Lord Buckley was born on 27 March 1890, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States as the daughter of Edmund Buckley and Sarah J. She married Harold Kingsley Simmons on 15 June 1912, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 September 1920, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Kingsley Simmons
1891–1973
Elizabeth Lord Buckley
1890–1920
Marriage: 15 June 1912
Anna May Simmons
1913–1949

Sources (13)

  • Elizabeth L Buckley in household of Thomas Burke, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Elizabeth Buckley, "Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905"
  • Elizabeth Buckley, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    15 June 1912Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Age 6

    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 8

    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.

    1900 · Gold for Cash!

    Age 10

    This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.

    English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

    Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.

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

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