MO d/c 20732
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
...DEATHS...
Mrs. Eliza Buckner, of Paris, Mo., wife of W. F. Buckner and mother of Mesdames C. R. Gibbs and A. S. Houston, died at her home late on Sunday evening. She had been ill for nearly a month. General debility is given as the cause of death.
Messrs and Mesdames Houston and Gibbs and Misses Susie Houston and Eliza Gibbs and Renfro Gibbs and Sidney Houston, are in Paris to attend the funeral which was Tuesday morning in that city. Burial also will be there.
The deceased was 80 years old. Her husband who survives is 84. They have resided in Paris for a great many years, and are well known in Mexico where they have frequently visited.
Beside Mesdames Houston and Gibbs, the other children who survive are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Mo., Chas. Buckner, Marshall, Mo.; and Mrs. A. F. Neate, Columbia, Mo.
Mrs. Buckner was one of Paris' most highly respected women. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a consecrated Christian woman.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 3, Column 3
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
MRS. WM. FITZHUGH BUCKNER
Mother of C. M. Buckner, Prominent Citizen of Paris, Mo., Passes Away.
At her home in Paris, Mo., Mrs. Eliza Woods Buckner, wife of Wm. Fitzhugh Buckner, died Sunday night June 30, at 8:30.
While Mrs. Buckner had not been in good health for a year past, her fatal illness was only about two weeks duration.
Her son C. M. Buckner of this city knowing of his mother's illness went to Parts a week ago, and his wife following on Friday. It was thought at first she would rally from this spell, but for several days her condition has been critical, with little or no hope of recovery.
The deceased and her family have for years been prominently connected with Paris. The surviving husband was a pioneer banker of that place and has been a prominent factor in its business interests.
Mrs. Buckner was born in Kentucky [sic], and would have been 80 years old the 6th of this month. She was the daughter of a prominent Baptist divine and was singularly devoted to this church of which she had been a member since her childhood. She was an earnest indefatiguable [sic] worker in every department of church work, and her loving council and presence will be missed in the deliberations of the congregation to which she had been always an inspiration and pleasure. Her home life had also been ideal, and no wife and mother ever received greater homage and loving devotion. Socially the Buckner home has always been a synonim [sic] of elegant hospitality and as long as she was able no one met the requirements more cordially and with greater pleasure, to her friends. So the passing of this gentle sweet Christian woman, the home, the church and the community in which she lived is sorely bereft, and all who knew her, are grieved.
To the aged husband, the children and all who sorrow, the tenderest sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended.
To our townsmen, C. M. Buckner, who has always been so devoted and thoughtful of his parents, this blow will fall heavily and his friends sympathise [sic] deeply with him. He will find great comfort in looking beyond the separation to the glorified life for which the mother was so well prepared.
The funeral will take place at Paris, Tuesday morning and Miss Frances and Miss Mary Buckner left for Paris this Monday morning.
The children who survive the mother in addition to the son mentioned are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner all of Paris; Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. A. F. Houston and Mrs. C. R. Gibbs of Mexico, Mo.
Weekly Democrat-News, Marshall, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 7, Column 1
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
Mrs. W. F. Buckner Dead
Mrs. W. F. Buckner died at the family home in Paris Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, following an illness of several weeks, and the remains were buried Tuesday morning, with funeral services by Rev. Aspsy of the Baptist church, of which she had been a devoted member since girlhood, being for 28 years president of the Aid Society of the Paris church and active in the erection of the present building and the purchases of the lot on which it stands. She was born in Boone county in 1832, coming to Monroe county as a child, and was a daughter of Anderson Woods and Elizabeth (Aunt Betsy) Woods, who was one of the best loved and best known pioneer women of Monroe county. Eliza Woods was married to Wm. F. Buckner in 1852 and is survived by seven children, A. D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Charley Buckner of Marshall, Mrs. Frank Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Houston of Mexico, all of whom were at her bedside. A daughter died at the age of nine years, and with this exception there has been other nobreak [sic] in the family until the death of the mother.
As life slipped slowly from love and the touch of skill the sympathy of the community went out in the children and to the husband of sixty years. No family in the community has been spared, no home so blessed, and the sundering was such as to excite the keenest grief among both family and friends.
Paris was never called on to mourn a more beautiful character. Tender, helpful and gracious was this "rose of yesterday," preserving into age all the sweet and tender ways of girlhood, the cheerful greeting, the active, kindly interest of a day when courtesy, kindliness and helpfulness were the rule and the exception. On the street in the home over which she so graciously presided for over half a century, anywhere, it was the same unaffected cordiality, and the simplicity of manner, this interest in others, she inculcated into the fine family of idea and women who were often children at her knee and whom God gave her in reward of a faith that never faltered. Old-fashioned women are like old-fashioned flowers, and none more so than this mother grown old, with her slim and girlish figure, her agile step, and a mind treasured with all the beautiful things of long ago. Her memory will linger with all of us as lingers the fragrance of thyme and of migionette in the chamber in which they have been but are no more, and our love will girt him about who, at the end of life, sits bravely alone, remembering and waiting. Soon there will be no Paris of that older day. One by one, out the Street, beyond the steeples, they are passing, and we who sit among the still houses can not understand. Yet, withal, we should be happy and grateful, happy for the gift of life, its morning hope and noon-day task, grateful for the beauty of wrinkles and snowy hair, their peace and calm, and in the end that we have vouchsafed unto us the deliverance of death. wondrously beautiful was The Rose of Yesterday, of simple faith, and so she would have us feel.
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The death of Mrs. Buckner recalls the family of strong, gentle and kindly women to which she belonged, Mrs. Sarah Snell, Mrs. W. F. Dulaney of Hannibal and Mrs. Matilda Bean of California, the latter being the only one now left alive. They were women of untiring energy, plain, practical, democratic, and never tiring in good deeds. It is a vanishing type.
Issue date July 5, 1912
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
OBITUARY
BUCKNER — Last Sunday evening (June 30) at 7:30, the gates of heaven stood ajar to receive one of our most faithful members, Mrs. W. F. Buckner. Although within six days of her eightieth birthday anniversary, Sister Buckner never lost her attachment for home, church and friends. Life was sweet and fresh to her until the end. In death, as in life, she was glad to say "thy will be done." The older Baptists of the state will recall the faithful labors of her father, Brother Anderson Woods, and will be pleased to know that his daughter never reflected anything but honor and credit upon his name. Sixty-three years of faithfulness as a member of the Paris Baptist church, twenty-eight years as President of the Aid Society, which secured the lots where the meeting house and parsonage now stand, and many years as teacher in the Sunday school, are but a part of her service in a public way.
To know much of this life of seventy years in Paris, one would need to hear the expression of the people, old and young, rich and poor, inside of her own church and out; they would need to know the strong Christian home, established almost sixty years ago. The family still remaining in a union held by strong natural and christian ties, are, W. F. Buckner, the husband; A. D. Buckner, Miss Emma Buckner, J. M., Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. Renfro Gibbs, Mrs. A. S. Houston of Mexico, Mo., Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, and Chas. M. Buckner of Marshall.
The family, the church and friends mourn their loss but realize that this long life has just began to bear its best fruits in two worlds.
The pastor conducted a short service at residence on July 2, at 9 a. m.#&151 Lotus Aspy, pastor.
Word and Way, Kansas City, Missouri, 18 Jul 1912, Thu • Page 13, Column 4
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
...DEATHS...
Mrs. Eliza Buckner, of Paris, Mo., wife of W. F. Buckner and mother of Mesdames C. R. Gibbs and A. S. Houston, died at her home late on Sunday evening. She had been ill for nearly a month. General debility is given as the cause of death.
Messrs and Mesdames Houston and Gibbs and Misses Susie Houston and Eliza Gibbs and Renfro Gibbs and Sidney Houston, are in Paris to attend the funeral which was Tuesday morning in that city. Burial also will be there.
The deceased was 80 years old. Her husband who survives is 84. They have resided in Paris for a great many years, and are well known in Mexico where they have frequently visited.
Beside Mesdames Houston and Gibbs, the other children who survive are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Mo., Chas. Buckner, Marshall, Mo.; and Mrs. A. F. Neate, Columbia, Mo.
Mrs. Buckner was one of Paris' most highly respected women. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a consecrated Christian woman.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 3, Column 3
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
MRS. WM. FITZHUGH BUCKNER
Mother of C. M. Buckner, Prominent Citizen of Paris, Mo., Passes Away.
At her home in Paris, Mo., Mrs. Eliza Woods Buckner, wife of Wm. Fitzhugh Buckner, died Sunday night June 30, at 8:30.
While Mrs. Buckner had not been in good health for a year past, her fatal illness was only about two weeks duration.
Her son C. M. Buckner of this city knowing of his mother's illness went to Parts a week ago, and his wife following on Friday. It was thought at first she would rally from this spell, but for several days her condition has been critical, with little or no hope of recovery.
The deceased and her family have for years been prominently connected with Paris. The surviving husband was a pioneer banker of that place and has been a prominent factor in its business interests.
Mrs. Buckner was born in Kentucky [sic], and would have been 80 years old the 6th of this month. She was the daughter of a prominent Baptist divine and was singularly devoted to this church of which she had been a member since her childhood. She was an earnest indefatiguable [sic] worker in every department of church work, and her loving council and presence will be missed in the deliberations of the congregation to which she had been always an inspiration and pleasure. Her home life had also been ideal, and no wife and mother ever received greater homage and loving devotion. Socially the Buckner home has always been a synonim [sic] of elegant hospitality and as long as she was able no one met the requirements more cordially and with greater pleasure, to her friends. So the passing of this gentle sweet Christian woman, the home, the church and the community in which she lived is sorely bereft, and all who knew her, are grieved.
To the aged husband, the children and all who sorrow, the tenderest sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended.
To our townsmen, C. M. Buckner, who has always been so devoted and thoughtful of his parents, this blow will fall heavily and his friends sympathise [sic] deeply with him. He will find great comfort in looking beyond the separation to the glorified life for which the mother was so well prepared.
The funeral will take place at Paris, Tuesday morning and Miss Frances and Miss Mary Buckner left for Paris this Monday morning.
The children who survive the mother in addition to the son mentioned are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner all of Paris; Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. A. F. Houston and Mrs. C. R. Gibbs of Mexico, Mo.
Weekly Democrat-News, Marshall, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 7, Column 1
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
Mrs. W. F. Buckner Dead
Mrs. W. F. Buckner died at the family home in Paris Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, following an illness of several weeks, and the remains were buried Tuesday morning, with funeral services by Rev. Aspsy of the Baptist church, of which she had been a devoted member since girlhood, being for 28 years president of the Aid Society of the Paris church and active in the erection of the present building and the purchases of the lot on which it stands. She was born in Boone county in 1832, coming to Monroe county as a child, and was a daughter of Anderson Woods and Elizabeth (Aunt Betsy) Woods, who was one of the best loved and best known pioneer women of Monroe county. Eliza Woods was married to Wm. F. Buckner in 1852 and is survived by seven children, A. D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Charley Buckner of Marshall, Mrs. Frank Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Houston of Mexico, all of whom were at her bedside. A daughter died at the age of nine years, and with this exception there has been other nobreak [sic] in the family until the death of the mother.
As life slipped slowly from love and the touch of skill the sympathy of the community went out in the children and to the husband of sixty years. No family in the community has been spared, no home so blessed, and the sundering was such as to excite the keenest grief among both family and friends.
Paris was never called on to mourn a more beautiful character. Tender, helpful and gracious was this "rose of yesterday," preserving into age all the sweet and tender ways of girlhood, the cheerful greeting, the active, kindly interest of a day when courtesy, kindliness and helpfulness were the rule and the exception. On the street in the home over which she so graciously presided for over half a century, anywhere, it was the same unaffected cordiality, and the simplicity of manner, this interest in others, she inculcated into the fine family of idea and women who were often children at her knee and whom God gave her in reward of a faith that never faltered. Old-fashioned women are like old-fashioned flowers, and none more so than this mother grown old, with her slim and girlish figure, her agile step, and a mind treasured with all the beautiful things of long ago. Her memory will linger with all of us as lingers the fragrance of thyme and of migionette in the chamber in which they have been but are no more, and our love will girt him about who, at the end of life, sits bravely alone, remembering and waiting. Soon there will be no Paris of that older day. One by one, out the Street, beyond the steeples, they are passing, and we who sit among the still houses can not understand. Yet, withal, we should be happy and grateful, happy for the gift of life, its morning hope and noon-day task, grateful for the beauty of wrinkles and snowy hair, their peace and calm, and in the end that we have vouchsafed unto us the deliverance of death. wondrously beautiful was The Rose of Yesterday, of simple faith, and so she would have us feel.
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The death of Mrs. Buckner recalls the family of strong, gentle and kindly women to which she belonged, Mrs. Sarah Snell, Mrs. W. F. Dulaney of Hannibal and Mrs. Matilda Bean of California, the latter being the only one now left alive. They were women of untiring energy, plain, practical, democratic, and never tiring in good deeds. It is a vanishing type.
Issue date July 5, 1912
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
OBITUARY
BUCKNER — Last Sunday evening (June 30) at 7:30, the gates of heaven stood ajar to receive one of our most faithful members, Mrs. W. F. Buckner. Although within six days of her eightieth birthday anniversary, Sister Buckner never lost her attachment for home, church and friends. Life was sweet and fresh to her until the end. In death, as in life, she was glad to say "thy will be done." The older Baptists of the state will recall the faithful labors of her father, Brother Anderson Woods, and will be pleased to know that his daughter never reflected anything but honor and credit upon his name. Sixty-three years of faithfulness as a member of the Paris Baptist church, twenty-eight years as President of the Aid Society, which secured the lots where the meeting house and parsonage now stand, and many years as teacher in the Sunday school, are but a part of her service in a public way.
To know much of this life of seventy years in Paris, one would need to hear the expression of the people, old and young, rich and poor, inside of her own church and out; they would need to know the strong Christian home, established almost sixty years ago. The family still remaining in a union held by strong natural and christian ties, are, W. F. Buckner, the husband; A. D. Buckner, Miss Emma Buckner, J. M., Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. Renfro Gibbs, Mrs. A. S. Houston of Mexico, Mo., Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, and Chas. M. Buckner of Marshall.
The family, the church and friends mourn their loss but realize that this long life has just began to bear its best fruits in two worlds.
The pastor conducted a short service at residence on July 2, at 9 a. m.#&151 Lotus Aspy, pastor.
Word and Way, Kansas City, Missouri, 18 Jul 1912, Thu • Page 13, Column 4
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
MO d/c 20732
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
...DEATHS...
Mrs. Eliza Buckner, of Paris, Mo., wife of W. F. Buckner and mother of Mesdames C. R. Gibbs and A. S. Houston, died at her home late on Sunday evening. She had been ill for nearly a month. General debility is given as the cause of death.
Messrs and Mesdames Houston and Gibbs and Misses Susie Houston and Eliza Gibbs and Renfro Gibbs and Sidney Houston, are in Paris to attend the funeral which was Tuesday morning in that city. Burial also will be there.
The deceased was 80 years old. Her husband who survives is 84. They have resided in Paris for a great many years, and are well known in Mexico where they have frequently visited.
Beside Mesdames Houston and Gibbs, the other children who survive are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Mo., Chas. Buckner, Marshall, Mo.; and Mrs. A. F. Neate, Columbia, Mo.
Mrs. Buckner was one of Paris' most highly respected women. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a consecrated Christian woman.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 3, Column 3
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
MRS. WM. FITZHUGH BUCKNER
Mother of C. M. Buckner, Prominent Citizen of Paris, Mo., Passes Away.
At her home in Paris, Mo., Mrs. Eliza Woods Buckner, wife of Wm. Fitzhugh Buckner, died Sunday night June 30, at 8:30.
While Mrs. Buckner had not been in good health for a year past, her fatal illness was only about two weeks duration.
Her son C. M. Buckner of this city knowing of his mother's illness went to Parts a week ago, and his wife following on Friday. It was thought at first she would rally from this spell, but for several days her condition has been critical, with little or no hope of recovery.
The deceased and her family have for years been prominently connected with Paris. The surviving husband was a pioneer banker of that place and has been a prominent factor in its business interests.
Mrs. Buckner was born in Kentucky [sic], and would have been 80 years old the 6th of this month. She was the daughter of a prominent Baptist divine and was singularly devoted to this church of which she had been a member since her childhood. She was an earnest indefatiguable [sic] worker in every department of church work, and her loving council and presence will be missed in the deliberations of the congregation to which she had been always an inspiration and pleasure. Her home life had also been ideal, and no wife and mother ever received greater homage and loving devotion. Socially the Buckner home has always been a synonim [sic] of elegant hospitality and as long as she was able no one met the requirements more cordially and with greater pleasure, to her friends. So the passing of this gentle sweet Christian woman, the home, the church and the community in which she lived is sorely bereft, and all who knew her, are grieved.
To the aged husband, the children and all who sorrow, the tenderest sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended.
To our townsmen, C. M. Buckner, who has always been so devoted and thoughtful of his parents, this blow will fall heavily and his friends sympathise [sic] deeply with him. He will find great comfort in looking beyond the separation to the glorified life for which the mother was so well prepared.
The funeral will take place at Paris, Tuesday morning and Miss Frances and Miss Mary Buckner left for Paris this Monday morning.
The children who survive the mother in addition to the son mentioned are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner all of Paris; Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. A. F. Houston and Mrs. C. R. Gibbs of Mexico, Mo.
Weekly Democrat-News, Marshall, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 7, Column 1
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
Mrs. W. F. Buckner Dead
Mrs. W. F. Buckner died at the family home in Paris Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, following an illness of several weeks, and the remains were buried Tuesday morning, with funeral services by Rev. Aspsy of the Baptist church, of which she had been a devoted member since girlhood, being for 28 years president of the Aid Society of the Paris church and active in the erection of the present building and the purchases of the lot on which it stands. She was born in Boone county in 1832, coming to Monroe county as a child, and was a daughter of Anderson Woods and Elizabeth (Aunt Betsy) Woods, who was one of the best loved and best known pioneer women of Monroe county. Eliza Woods was married to Wm. F. Buckner in 1852 and is survived by seven children, A. D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Charley Buckner of Marshall, Mrs. Frank Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Houston of Mexico, all of whom were at her bedside. A daughter died at the age of nine years, and with this exception there has been other nobreak [sic] in the family until the death of the mother.
As life slipped slowly from love and the touch of skill the sympathy of the community went out in the children and to the husband of sixty years. No family in the community has been spared, no home so blessed, and the sundering was such as to excite the keenest grief among both family and friends.
Paris was never called on to mourn a more beautiful character. Tender, helpful and gracious was this "rose of yesterday," preserving into age all the sweet and tender ways of girlhood, the cheerful greeting, the active, kindly interest of a day when courtesy, kindliness and helpfulness were the rule and the exception. On the street in the home over which she so graciously presided for over half a century, anywhere, it was the same unaffected cordiality, and the simplicity of manner, this interest in others, she inculcated into the fine family of idea and women who were often children at her knee and whom God gave her in reward of a faith that never faltered. Old-fashioned women are like old-fashioned flowers, and none more so than this mother grown old, with her slim and girlish figure, her agile step, and a mind treasured with all the beautiful things of long ago. Her memory will linger with all of us as lingers the fragrance of thyme and of migionette in the chamber in which they have been but are no more, and our love will girt him about who, at the end of life, sits bravely alone, remembering and waiting. Soon there will be no Paris of that older day. One by one, out the Street, beyond the steeples, they are passing, and we who sit among the still houses can not understand. Yet, withal, we should be happy and grateful, happy for the gift of life, its morning hope and noon-day task, grateful for the beauty of wrinkles and snowy hair, their peace and calm, and in the end that we have vouchsafed unto us the deliverance of death. wondrously beautiful was The Rose of Yesterday, of simple faith, and so she would have us feel.
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The death of Mrs. Buckner recalls the family of strong, gentle and kindly women to which she belonged, Mrs. Sarah Snell, Mrs. W. F. Dulaney of Hannibal and Mrs. Matilda Bean of California, the latter being the only one now left alive. They were women of untiring energy, plain, practical, democratic, and never tiring in good deeds. It is a vanishing type.
Issue date July 5, 1912
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
OBITUARY
BUCKNER — Last Sunday evening (June 30) at 7:30, the gates of heaven stood ajar to receive one of our most faithful members, Mrs. W. F. Buckner. Although within six days of her eightieth birthday anniversary, Sister Buckner never lost her attachment for home, church and friends. Life was sweet and fresh to her until the end. In death, as in life, she was glad to say "thy will be done." The older Baptists of the state will recall the faithful labors of her father, Brother Anderson Woods, and will be pleased to know that his daughter never reflected anything but honor and credit upon his name. Sixty-three years of faithfulness as a member of the Paris Baptist church, twenty-eight years as President of the Aid Society, which secured the lots where the meeting house and parsonage now stand, and many years as teacher in the Sunday school, are but a part of her service in a public way.
To know much of this life of seventy years in Paris, one would need to hear the expression of the people, old and young, rich and poor, inside of her own church and out; they would need to know the strong Christian home, established almost sixty years ago. The family still remaining in a union held by strong natural and christian ties, are, W. F. Buckner, the husband; A. D. Buckner, Miss Emma Buckner, J. M., Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. Renfro Gibbs, Mrs. A. S. Houston of Mexico, Mo., Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, and Chas. M. Buckner of Marshall.
The family, the church and friends mourn their loss but realize that this long life has just began to bear its best fruits in two worlds.
The pastor conducted a short service at residence on July 2, at 9 a. m.#&151 Lotus Aspy, pastor.
Word and Way, Kansas City, Missouri, 18 Jul 1912, Thu • Page 13, Column 4
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
...DEATHS...
Mrs. Eliza Buckner, of Paris, Mo., wife of W. F. Buckner and mother of Mesdames C. R. Gibbs and A. S. Houston, died at her home late on Sunday evening. She had been ill for nearly a month. General debility is given as the cause of death.
Messrs and Mesdames Houston and Gibbs and Misses Susie Houston and Eliza Gibbs and Renfro Gibbs and Sidney Houston, are in Paris to attend the funeral which was Tuesday morning in that city. Burial also will be there.
The deceased was 80 years old. Her husband who survives is 84. They have resided in Paris for a great many years, and are well known in Mexico where they have frequently visited.
Beside Mesdames Houston and Gibbs, the other children who survive are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Mo., Chas. Buckner, Marshall, Mo.; and Mrs. A. F. Neate, Columbia, Mo.
Mrs. Buckner was one of Paris' most highly respected women. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a consecrated Christian woman.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 3, Column 3
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
MRS. WM. FITZHUGH BUCKNER
Mother of C. M. Buckner, Prominent Citizen of Paris, Mo., Passes Away.
At her home in Paris, Mo., Mrs. Eliza Woods Buckner, wife of Wm. Fitzhugh Buckner, died Sunday night June 30, at 8:30.
While Mrs. Buckner had not been in good health for a year past, her fatal illness was only about two weeks duration.
Her son C. M. Buckner of this city knowing of his mother's illness went to Parts a week ago, and his wife following on Friday. It was thought at first she would rally from this spell, but for several days her condition has been critical, with little or no hope of recovery.
The deceased and her family have for years been prominently connected with Paris. The surviving husband was a pioneer banker of that place and has been a prominent factor in its business interests.
Mrs. Buckner was born in Kentucky [sic], and would have been 80 years old the 6th of this month. She was the daughter of a prominent Baptist divine and was singularly devoted to this church of which she had been a member since her childhood. She was an earnest indefatiguable [sic] worker in every department of church work, and her loving council and presence will be missed in the deliberations of the congregation to which she had been always an inspiration and pleasure. Her home life had also been ideal, and no wife and mother ever received greater homage and loving devotion. Socially the Buckner home has always been a synonim [sic] of elegant hospitality and as long as she was able no one met the requirements more cordially and with greater pleasure, to her friends. So the passing of this gentle sweet Christian woman, the home, the church and the community in which she lived is sorely bereft, and all who knew her, are grieved.
To the aged husband, the children and all who sorrow, the tenderest sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended.
To our townsmen, C. M. Buckner, who has always been so devoted and thoughtful of his parents, this blow will fall heavily and his friends sympathise [sic] deeply with him. He will find great comfort in looking beyond the separation to the glorified life for which the mother was so well prepared.
The funeral will take place at Paris, Tuesday morning and Miss Frances and Miss Mary Buckner left for Paris this Monday morning.
The children who survive the mother in addition to the son mentioned are: Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale, Anderson D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner all of Paris; Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. A. F. Houston and Mrs. C. R. Gibbs of Mexico, Mo.
Weekly Democrat-News, Marshall, Missouri • Thu, Jul 4, 1912, Page 7, Column 1
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
Mrs. W. F. Buckner Dead
Mrs. W. F. Buckner died at the family home in Paris Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, following an illness of several weeks, and the remains were buried Tuesday morning, with funeral services by Rev. Aspsy of the Baptist church, of which she had been a devoted member since girlhood, being for 28 years president of the Aid Society of the Paris church and active in the erection of the present building and the purchases of the lot on which it stands. She was born in Boone county in 1832, coming to Monroe county as a child, and was a daughter of Anderson Woods and Elizabeth (Aunt Betsy) Woods, who was one of the best loved and best known pioneer women of Monroe county. Eliza Woods was married to Wm. F. Buckner in 1852 and is survived by seven children, A. D. Buckner and Miss Emma Buckner of Paris, Charley Buckner of Marshall, Mrs. Frank Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Houston of Mexico, all of whom were at her bedside. A daughter died at the age of nine years, and with this exception there has been other nobreak [sic] in the family until the death of the mother.
As life slipped slowly from love and the touch of skill the sympathy of the community went out in the children and to the husband of sixty years. No family in the community has been spared, no home so blessed, and the sundering was such as to excite the keenest grief among both family and friends.
Paris was never called on to mourn a more beautiful character. Tender, helpful and gracious was this "rose of yesterday," preserving into age all the sweet and tender ways of girlhood, the cheerful greeting, the active, kindly interest of a day when courtesy, kindliness and helpfulness were the rule and the exception. On the street in the home over which she so graciously presided for over half a century, anywhere, it was the same unaffected cordiality, and the simplicity of manner, this interest in others, she inculcated into the fine family of idea and women who were often children at her knee and whom God gave her in reward of a faith that never faltered. Old-fashioned women are like old-fashioned flowers, and none more so than this mother grown old, with her slim and girlish figure, her agile step, and a mind treasured with all the beautiful things of long ago. Her memory will linger with all of us as lingers the fragrance of thyme and of migionette in the chamber in which they have been but are no more, and our love will girt him about who, at the end of life, sits bravely alone, remembering and waiting. Soon there will be no Paris of that older day. One by one, out the Street, beyond the steeples, they are passing, and we who sit among the still houses can not understand. Yet, withal, we should be happy and grateful, happy for the gift of life, its morning hope and noon-day task, grateful for the beauty of wrinkles and snowy hair, their peace and calm, and in the end that we have vouchsafed unto us the deliverance of death. wondrously beautiful was The Rose of Yesterday, of simple faith, and so she would have us feel.
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The death of Mrs. Buckner recalls the family of strong, gentle and kindly women to which she belonged, Mrs. Sarah Snell, Mrs. W. F. Dulaney of Hannibal and Mrs. Matilda Bean of California, the latter being the only one now left alive. They were women of untiring energy, plain, practical, democratic, and never tiring in good deeds. It is a vanishing type.
Issue date July 5, 1912
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society, Museum & Library and Pam Witherow)
OBITUARY
BUCKNER — Last Sunday evening (June 30) at 7:30, the gates of heaven stood ajar to receive one of our most faithful members, Mrs. W. F. Buckner. Although within six days of her eightieth birthday anniversary, Sister Buckner never lost her attachment for home, church and friends. Life was sweet and fresh to her until the end. In death, as in life, she was glad to say "thy will be done." The older Baptists of the state will recall the faithful labors of her father, Brother Anderson Woods, and will be pleased to know that his daughter never reflected anything but honor and credit upon his name. Sixty-three years of faithfulness as a member of the Paris Baptist church, twenty-eight years as President of the Aid Society, which secured the lots where the meeting house and parsonage now stand, and many years as teacher in the Sunday school, are but a part of her service in a public way.
To know much of this life of seventy years in Paris, one would need to hear the expression of the people, old and young, rich and poor, inside of her own church and out; they would need to know the strong Christian home, established almost sixty years ago. The family still remaining in a union held by strong natural and christian ties, are, W. F. Buckner, the husband; A. D. Buckner, Miss Emma Buckner, J. M., Mrs. F. V. Ragsdale of Paris, Mrs. Renfro Gibbs, Mrs. A. S. Houston of Mexico, Mo., Mrs. A. F. Neate of Columbia, and Chas. M. Buckner of Marshall.
The family, the church and friends mourn their loss but realize that this long life has just began to bear its best fruits in two worlds.
The pastor conducted a short service at residence on July 2, at 9 a. m.#&151 Lotus Aspy, pastor.
Word and Way, Kansas City, Missouri, 18 Jul 1912, Thu • Page 13, Column 4
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
Family Members
Siblings
Children
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Elizabeth "Bettie" Buckner
1854–1862
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Susan "Sue" Buckner Ragsdale
1856–1933
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Sarah Thornton "Sallie" Buckner Houston
1858–1940
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Charles Madison Buckner
1860–1928
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Anderson Duncan Buckner
1865–1918
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Mary Elizabeth Buckner Gibbs
1866–1946
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Emma Talitha Buckner
1871–1961
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Frances Fitzhugh Buckner Neate
1874–1960
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