Brief Life History of Lee Roy
When Lee Roy Buck was born on 21 September 1869, in Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, United States, his father, James Madison Buck, was 42 and his mother, Martha Ann Rowland, was 32. He married Daisy Kirby Reed on 17 December 1895, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, United States in 1935 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 12 June 1948, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Leroy Buck in household of Mary E Sims, "United States Census, 1940"
- Lee Buck, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Lee Roy Buck, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Eddy, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Eddy, New Mexcio, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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