Buck, Abram (or Abraham) 1847-1923

BUCK, NEWCOMBER

Posted By: Janet Brown - volunteer (email)
Date: 8/12/2013 at 14:17:10

From the November 13, 1924 Ireton Ledger:

J. W. Dale received a letter this week, in response to a query for information, stating that Abram Buck, an old-time resident here, had died about a year ago. The information came as a surprise to Mr. Dale as well as many other old settlers here. Abram Buck was numbered among the early settlers of this territory and with his family resided here until about thirty years ago. As time passed the family were lost track of by their old Ireton friends and this is the first time they had been heard from for a number of years. The two sons and daughters married into prominent families while residents here but they too had cast their lot elsewhere.

Poster's note: In researching Abram Buck for the Ireton veterans' project, we learned that he was born in March 1847 in Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth and John Buck. The family moved to northwest Illinois sometime before 1860. On November 5, 1861, Abram enlisted in Company I, 32nd Illinois Infantry. On August 18, 1862, he received a disability discharge but on March 10, 1865, he enlisted in Company E, 11th Illinois Cavalry Regiment and served until September 30, 1865.

According to information on ancestry.com, he married Sarah Newcomber on August 3, 1868 in Ogle County, Illinois. The family moved first to Poweshiek County, Iowa and then to Ireton about 1890.

Abram and Sarah were the parents of 5 children: Oscar who married Millicent Wing and was the father of Bernice Buck; Ellen Mary Buck who married John Christopher Thompson and was the mother of 4 children; Frank Buck who married Olive Black and who had no children; Elizabeth ("Bessie") Buck who married Aaron De Mots; and a child who died as an infant. All of the Bucks' children were born before the couple came to Ireton.

Abram's first wife Sarah died August 9, 1894 and is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Ireton. Abram remarried about 1899 and his second wife was Sarah Jane (last name unknown). Although he gave his occupation as farmer, Abram was also a minister-missionary for the Church of the Brethren and is sometimes referred to as "Rev. Buck" in newspaper articles.

Rev. Buck and his wife left Ireton about 1902-1903 to move to Winnepeg, Canada to start a mission church.

Rev. Buck passed away in 1923 in Pennsacola, Florida