Person:Melissa Lemon (1)

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Title: Selling tickets to Woman's Club card party Newspaper: Lake Shore News, 7 Oct 1921, page 5 Subject(s): Buckman, Royal Mrs. ________________________________________________________________________________ Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916 -1950 http://www.sos.state.il.us/GenealogyMWeb/IDPHDeathSearchServlet

Last Name First Name Middle Name Sex/ Race Age Cert # Death Date County City Date Filed

BUCKMAN MELISSA F F/W UNK 5280076 1934-11-12 COOK WILMETTE 34-11-13 ________________________________________________________________________________ Obituary

Wilmette local newspaper (not specified) November 13, 1934

Pioneer Wman Dies, 89; Born in Covered Wagon

  Mrs. Melissa J. Buckman, 89 years old, an Illinois pioneer in her own right, died yesterday at her home, 1034 Linden avenue, Wilmette.  She was the widow of Royal M. Buckman, insurance man, and one of those who adjusted the losses in the  Chicago fire of 1871.  Mrs. Buckman is survived by six children, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
  She was born near Portland, Ill., in Whiteside county, on Jan. 15, 1845, as her parents were pushing into Illinois by ox train on their long journey from Scotland. Her father was a Methodist circuit rider between Sterling and Joliet.  Mrs. Buckman often told her own children how,  when she was a girl, the Indians used to come to their log house near Prophetstown to barter or to steal.
  Mrs. Buckman removed to Chicago in 1874 and became active in the early days of Chicago's club life.  She was a member also of the women's club of Wilmette, where she lived for 36 years.
  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 1118 Greenleaf avenue, Wilmette, with burial at Rosehill cemetery.

____________________________________________________________________________________ BUCKMAN -- Melissa J. Buckman, age 89 years, of 1034 Linden-av, Wilmette, widow of Royal Buckman, mother of Royal A.B. and F.D. Buckman; Mrs. Charles H. Jackson, Mrs. V. B. Arnold, and Mrs. John F. Layng. Services Tuesday, 2 p.m. at funeral home, 1118 Greenleaf-av., Wilmette. Interment Rosehill. ____________________________________________________________________________________

1. ↑ 1910 Census of the United States. (Ancestry.com)
   New Trier, Cook Co, Illinois ED1565 p17A.

   age 64

2. ↑ 1880 Census of the United States. (Ancestry.com)
   Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois ED123 p355C.

   age 35

3. ↑ 1870 Census of the United States. (Ancestry.com)
   Freeport, Stephenson Co, Illinois p68B.

   age 24

4. ↑ Obituary
   Wilmette local newspaper (not specified) - November 13, 1934.

   Born in a covered wagon as family were "pushing into Illinois by ox train on their long journey from Scotland".

5. ↑ Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950.
6. ↑ Obituary
   Wilmette local newspaper (not specified) - November 13, 1934.
7. ↑ 1930 Census of the United States. (Ancestry.com)
   New Trier, Cook Co, Illinois ED2212 p13A.

   age 48