Isaac Newton Buck (1801 – 1877)

Expectations must have been very high for Isaac Newton Buck!  Sir Isaac Newton, the renowned English scientist, died in 1727.  Isaac Newton Buck is assumed to have been named after him.

Interestingly, there was also a Rev. Isaac Newton Buck, Sr. (1800-1873) who lived and preached in Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee.  He also had a mercantile store and a freight line.  He founded Buck College.  His connection, if any, to the Buck Family of Virginia is unknown.

Isaac Newton Buck was the tenth child of Thomas Buck V and Anne Richardson.   He was born on March 22, 1801 and died on Jan. 23, 1877 at the age of 75. He was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, Virginia.   His tombstone has a Confederate States Army Marker.

Isaac Newton Buck graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a medical doctor in 1822.  He then practiced medicine at Front Royal from 1822 to 1845 when his health became impaired and he moved to his farm, "Mountain View", nearby.

Dr. Isaac Newton Buck was a Methodist and a subscriber to the 1833 building fund for the Front Royal Methodist Church.   He was a member of the Virginia state legislature and was active in county affairs.

Dr. Buck was also said to be a good musician, carpenter and whittler.  He carried small blocks of wood while making his medical rounds and whittled gifts for children.  He was popular and his home on Chester Street had visitors almost daily; many stayed the night.

Isaac Newton Buck and Susan Taylor were married on Jun. 12, 1827.  Susan Taylor was born in 1810. She died in 1836 at the age of 26 and is buried at Walnut Hill, Frederick County, Virginia.

Isaac Newton Buck and Susan Taylor had five children:

• Catherine Elizabeth Buck, born 1832; married Marcus H. Blakemore, 1852; died 1909.
• Marcus Taylor Buck, born 1827; married Elizabeth Cramer, 1856; died 1862.
• Mary Cornelia Buck, born 1830; married Solomon G. Cunningham, 1854; died 1918.
• Ann Buck was born in 1834 and died in 1835.
• Susan Rebecca Buck was born in 1836 and died in 1880.

After the death of his first wife, Susan, Isaac Newton Buck married Janet Urquhart Lovell on November 21, 1839. Janet Urquhart Lovell was born on Jun. 10, 1815 to Charles Urquhart Lovell and Mary Evans Long.  She died on May 2, 1893 at the age of 77 and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, Virginia.  She was called "Jane".  H. N. Buck has her surname as Lovell in his Buck Family Tree, but only Urquhart is used on her tombstone.  William Mason Buck had her name as Janet U. Lovell.

Isaac Newton Buck and Janet Urquhart Lovell had five children:

• Thomas William Buck, born 1845; married Catherine Augusta Buck, 1875; died 1877.
• Charles Newton Buck, born 1842; married Annie Susan Deatherage, 1883; died 1925.
• Nannie Lovell Buck, born 1848; married Charles Anderton Brown, 1871; died 1934.
• Robert Lovell Buck, born 1851; married Katie Elizabeth Massie, 1877; died 1882.
• James Cunningham Buck, born 1854; married Nannie Miriam Wight, 1883; died 1936.