Henrietta Chew Buck (1779-1872)

 

Henrietta Chew Buck, daughter of Thomas Buck V and Anne Richardson, was born on May 16, 1779. She died on Dec. 23, 1872 at the age of 93 and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, Virginia.

Henrietta Chew Buck and Spencer Neville Calmes were married on Apr. 27, 1797. Spencer Neville Calmes, son of William Waller Calmes and Lucy Neville, was born in 1771. He died in 1854 at the age of 83.

The Calmes and Buck families became linked in the 1700s and Calmes often appears as a middle or surname in Buck family history. Marquis Calmes I was a French Huguenot who came to America from England about 1695, his family having fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. It appears highly probable that he came from the old, influential, and titled Huguenot family of that name in southern France, but positive proof of such connection is lacking. References to him in several historical writings as being a titled French Marquis likewise lack documentary verification. There is no doubt; however, that he was the progenitor of a large, influential, and illustrious family in America.

Spencer Neville Calmes and Henrietta Chew Buck had fifteen children:

• Annie Buck Calmes, born 1798; married William M. Coleman, 1821; died 1867
• William Waller Calmes, born 1800; married Susan H. Sterling, 1825; died 1836
• Lucy Neville Calmes, born 1802; married Augustus Wight, 1821
• Franklin Calmes (1803 – 1833)
• Miriam Calmes (1804 - 1805
• Juliette Calmes (1806 – 1820)
• Henrietta Calmes, born 1808; married Moses Rawlings, 1829
• Eliza Calmes, born 1809; married George W. Campbell, 1832; died 1833
• Marquis Lafayette Calmes, born 1811; married Margaret Pilcher, 1851; died 1858
• Spencer Neville Calmes was born in 1813. He died in 1831 at the age of 18
• Letitia Amelia Calmes, born 1816; married James H. Bristow, 1845
• Isaac Newton Calmes (1817 – 1857)
• Charles Henry Calmes (1819 – 1901)
• Augustus G. S. Calmes, born 1822; married Matilda E. Cromwell, 1852; died 1898
• Albert B. Calmes (1826 – 1857).

Isabella Buck (1778 – 1844)

 

Not much is known about Isabella Buck. She was born on January 9, 1778 and died in 1844 at the age of 66.

Isabella Buck and Captain Hezekiah Conn were married on July 25, 1803. They settled in Hartford, Kentucky and are buried in Belfontaine Cemetery. Hezekiah Conn died in 1837.

Hezekiah Conn and Isabella Buck had six children:

• Maria Conn (1804 – 1859)
• Eliza Conn (1805 – 1899)
• Eleanor Conn (1807 – 1807)
• Rosalie Conn (1810 – 1810).
• Isabella Buck Conn (1813 – 1892)
• Sarah Cornelia Conn (1817 – ?).

William Richardson Buck

William Richardson Buck was the first of Thomas Buck V and Anne Richardson’s children. He was born on Feb. 28, 1776 and died on Oct. 27, 1823 at the age of 47. The cause of death was “bilious fever” which appeared epidemic in that year. He was buried in Buckton Cemetery, Virginia.

William Richardson Buck married Lucy Neville Blakemore April 8, 1802 when he was 26 years old; she was 17. Lucy Neville Blakemore, daughter of George Blakemore and Elizabeth Mauzy, was born on May 5, 1784. She died on May 18, 1859 at the age of 75 and was buried in Buckton Cemetery, Virginia.

William Richardson Buck and Lucy Neville Blakemore had the following children:

• Marcus Blakemore Buck, born Nov. 25, 1816; married Jane Letitia Bayly, 1841; died Nov. 30, 1881.
• George Augustus Buck was born on Apr. 12, 1807. He died on Apr. 18, 1835 at the age of 28 in Virginia.
• George R. Buck is included in the notes of William R. Buck as being born April 12, 1807 but dying April 18, 1835. He was buried in Buckton Cemetery, Virginia.
• Thomas Fayette Buck Sr., born Mar. 28, 1803, Virginia; married Elizabeth Peake, Feb. 26, 1839; died Sep. 25, 1874.
• Catherine E. Buck, born 1805; married John B. LaRue, 1843; died Jun. 27, 1882.
• William Mason Buck, born Aug. 30, 1809, Front Royal, Virginia; married Elizabeth Ann Ashby, Apr. 3, 1838, Front Royal, Virginia; died Sep. 23, 1895, Front Royal, Virginia.
• Henry Alexander Buck was born on Nov. 15, 1811. The memoirs of William Mason Buck actually gives his birthday as 1800 but this is probably a typographical error. He died on May 27, 1834 at the age of 22 in Pecan Grove, Louisiana.
• John Newton Buck, born Jul. 25, 1820; married Amelia Ann Buck, Oct. 2, 1849; died Oct. 25, 1875.

William Richardson Buck’s son, William Mason Buck, was a notable contributor to the history of the Buck family through his memoirs.

Children of Thomas Buck V

 

As noted previously, Thomas Buck V and Anne Richardson had fourteen children, of whom four died in infancy. It often seems as though Thomas’s family has been better documented than has the families of his brothers John and Charles Buck II. This additional documentation could be related to Thomas’s family living in the town of Front Royal whereas the families of John and Charles were more rural. However, the additional information is probably more due to the efforts of Buck family researchers and writers such as William Mason Buck, Maurice Neville Blakemore and Walter Hooper Buck who were descendants of Thomas Buck V.

The more noted and documented children of Thomas Buck V include:

· William Richardson Buck (1776 – 1823) married Lucy N. Blakemore

· Isabella Buck (1778 – 1844) married Captain Hezekiah Conn

· Henrietta Chew Buck (1779 – 1872) married Spencer Neville Calmes

· Mary Ann Buck (1787 – 1851) married George Bayly

· Marcus Calmes Buck (1789 – 1845) married Elizabeth P. Drake

· Rebecca Richardson Buck (1792 - 1878) married William R. Ashby

· Elizabeth Price Buck (1794 – 1871) married George N. Blakemore

· Isaac Newton Buck (1801 – 1877) married Janet Urquhart

· Letitia Amelia Buck (1803 – 1885) married John Mauzy Blakemore.

The next several posts will focus on these children of Thomas Buck V and Anne Richardson as well as some of their grandchildren.