RICHARD BUCKMASTER

BUCKMASTER, MATOCKS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 10:35:28

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

RICHARD BUCKMASTER, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Dennis; born in Mercer Co., Penn., July 10, 1812; the same year his parents removed to Wane Co., Ohio, the first settlers in the county; there they remained until his mother died, 1838; after which his father came to Cedar Co., Iowa. In 1855, he came to this county, where he owns 120 acres of land near Unionville, valued at $30 per acre. Married Miss Eliza Matocks in 1830; she was born in Pennsylvania in February 1809; they have six children living, two have died - Solomon L., John, Sophia J., Ebenezer A., Enos H., died in 1858; Rachel, died in 1860; Robert M. and Ruth A. Mr and Mrs B. with all their children except one are members of the M.E. Church. He was a member of the state militia during the late war. In 1857, he engaged in the milling business in Davis Co.; after being connected with it two years, he sold to his partner, who soon after sold out and joined the rebel army without having paid Mr. B. for his interest in the mill.