Person:Horace Buckner (1)

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Horace Buckner
 
d.Abt 1821 Culpepper Co., VA
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  1. Capt. George Buckner1760 - 1828
  2. Horace Buckner - Abt 1821
  3. Elizabeth Buckner
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m. 11 Aug 1790
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Name Horace Buckner
Gender Male
Marriage 11 Aug 1790 Virgina, USAto Frances Thornton
Marriage to Janet Ritchie
Death? Abt 1821 Culpepper Co., VA

He studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland and was apparently stranded there for a time by the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He was a student of and corresponded with the noted Scottish schoolmaster Donald Robertson in Virginia, who perhaps inspired him to study in Scotland. Francis Thornton appears to have been his second wife, as he first married Janet "Jannie" Ritchie (a contemporary letter says he was "of Port Royal" at the time).(Archibald McCall, George McCall and Joseph S. Ewing, "The Correspondence of Archibald McCall and George McCall, 1777-1783," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 73, No. 3 (Jul., 1965), pp. 312-353

Should not be confused with his son Dr. William Horace Buckner who died in 1820 or his cousin Horace Buckner who died in Green County, Kentucky in 1810, but it happens anyway.

References
  1.   King, George Harrison Sanford. Further Notes on Captain George Buckner. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Virginia Historical Society, 1956).
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    http://www.cullenproject.ac.uk/docs/1184/

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