Buckner, Ruth (1903)

BUCKNER, CARR

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/28/2011 at 22:35:15

Carroll Sentinel (Carroll, Iowa) Sept. 29, 1903

AN OLD IOWA WOMAN DIES.

Mrs. Buckner of Montezuma, a Slave, Was 110 Years of Age.

One of the oldest, of not the oldest person in Iowa, died at Montezuma at the age of 110. She was a former slave, but had been a resident of that city for a number of years. Ruth Ann Carr was born in Lee County, Ky., the exact date of her birth being uncertain, but from certain other dates and knowledge of deceased it is supposed that her age at the time of death was not far from 110 years. She was married to Henry Buckner in 1850, at Memphis, Mo. No children were born to this union. In 1863 they moved to Poweshiek County, and in 1877 to Montezuma. Mrs. Buckner was born in bondage and remained so until the civil war set her free. She has been a helpless invalid for twelve years.