Buck, Samuel H. 1821-1899

BUCK, HUGEN, GOODALE, NEWKIRK, CAMPBELL, SMITH

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Date: 8/5/2021 at 20:31:25

Died - At his home in Monona, Ia., January 10th, 1899, Samuel H. Buck, aged 77 years, 6 months and 24 days. Mr. Buck was born in Grand Isle, Vermont, June 16th, 1821.

In that great year of immigration westward, when so many New Englanders sought homes in this new Eldorado, the year 1846, Mr. Buck was one of the thousands seeking homes in the far west. Reaching Iowa, and viewing the rich and fertile prairie in the Garnavillo belt, he purchased a farm near National, where he resided until 1887.

Two years after his settlement in this county he married Miss Maria Hugen. To this union were born four children, two daughters, Emily and Cynthia, and one son Elbert, the latter residing at Rock Valley, Iowa; one child died in infancy. Mrs. Buck died in July '56, and in 1858 he was married to Emaline Goodale, who died in 1865. In December 1866 he was married to Mrs. B.A. Newkirk, who with his children survive him.

A brother, A.C. Buck, resides at Storm Lake, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. Florinde Campbell, resides at National.

Mr. Buck and family came to Monona in 1887, living a retired and quiet life.

Early in life Mr. Buck united with the church and for over sixty years has been a pillar in the faith, a generous contributor of his means and a faithful worker in the Lord's vineyard, his energies bent in the promotion and welfare of the Methodist Episcopal church. He knew the bible from cover to cover, having read and studied it by course forty-six times. The historical record was engrafted upon his memory, and the principles taught by that record was the foundation of his life's sojourn here on earth. His liberality to benevolent enterprises is well known, the result of christian experience and attentive study of the words of the Messiah, giving one-tenth of his annual income to the service of the Lord. He proved his faith by well-doing; he honored the church and the cause by a true devotion to the interests of both. He lived and died in a triumphant faith.

He early marked out his path and through all of his seventy odd years he clung tenaciously to the convictions he had formed and with intense feeling made manifest his duty towards all moral questions. He meant to do right, and aimed to be just and equitable in all things. He was a plain common-sense man, free from all ostentation, honorable and upright in his dealings as between man and man. He acquired by hard labor and a careful husbanding of his resources a handsome competence ad leaves his family respectably provided for. A sturdy, rugged pioneer, one of our earliest settlers, he was well known in this county and was highly respected by all who knew him.

The sympathy of the community is with his family in the bereavement thus thrust upon them.

Funeral services will be held in the M.E. church at 10:30 to-morrow (Friday) morning, conducted by Rev. P.N. Dwello. The interment will be at National.

~Monona Leader, Thursday, January 12, 1899

Note: B.A. Newkirk is Betsey A. nee Smith, widow of Jacob Newkirk. She is buried in the Monona City cemetery.