Charles Buck III (1788-1870)

Charles Buck III was born on February 18, 1788 to Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson.  Charles Buck III and Lucy Chilton Bayliss were married in 1817 in Virginia. Lucy Chilton Bayliss, daughter of William Bayliss and Elizabeth Turner was born on April 10, 1798 in Virginia.

He called himself "the third" and so he was in direct lineage, although his cousin Charles, the son of John Buck I, was older. 

                                                               -- notes of H. N. Buck

Sometimes Charles Buck III is referred to as Charles Bayly Buck III but this is probably not correct.  Charles Bayly Buck (1808-1858) was the son of Samuel Buck whose wife was Mary Bayly.  The surname of Lucy Chilton Bayliss is sometimes spelled Baylis, Bayles or Bayless.

Charles Buck III appears to have travelled from his birthplace in Virginia to Kentucky then Mississippi then Louisiana and then returned to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

At the time of the 1850 census, Charles Buck III was a merchant in Vicksburg, Mississippi.   Lucy C. Buck was included in the household.  Their son, Richard Buck, age 17, lived with them and was a clerk – probably in their store.   In a nearby house, another of their sons, John W. Buck, lived with his wife Mary, age 26.  She was born in Kentucky and their son, also named Charles, age 1, was born in Mississippi.  John W. Buck was also shown to be a merchant. 

By the 1860 census, Charles and Lucy are living in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana with J. R. McEvers who was age 27 and born in Louisiana.  His wife was E. J. McEvers who was age 22 and born in Louisiana in Terrebonne Parish.  In the same house was H. R. Buck, age 33, born in Kentucky, a physician, his daughter Annie, age 4 and Lucy C. age 2 both born in Mississippi.

Charles Buck and Lucy Chilton Bayliss Buck had the following children:

• John William Buck (1819-1916); born in Virginia; married Mary Sutton, Kentucky; died of “hypostatic pneumonia” in Kentucky.  A farmer.
• Charles Lundsford Buck (1824-1862); born in Kentucky; married Maria Isabel Barnett, 1852; died in Mississippi.  He was a prominent attorney in Vicksburg and a legislator in the Mississippi Senate.
• Horace Richardson Buck, (1826-1912); married (1) Ellen Herbert, 1855; (2) married Mary Easton, 1859.  Died in Louisiana.  A physician.
• Richard Sutton Buck (1833-1892); born in Virginia; married Juliana Scott Randolph; died in Mississippi.  An attorney and District Attorney in Vicksburg.
• Marion Buck (1840-1847); a son born and died in Mississippi.

Charles Buck III died on October 12, 1870 at the age of 82 in Vicksburg, Mississippi only a few days after his wife, Lucy Chilton Bayliss died on October 5, 1870 at the age of 72 in Vicksburg.