John Buck (1785-1872)

John Buck was born in 1785, the son of Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson.   John Buck and Sarah Catlett were married on December 14, 1812 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Sarah Catlett was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, the daughter of Henry Catlett and Miriam Calmes.

"An earnest Christian -- a man of rugged honesty -- absolutely fearless -- a brag shot with a rifle"  (JTB) He lived and died at his home, "Prospect Hill", near the family homestead in Virginia.

                                                   -- notes of H. N. Buck, 1965

He was a farmer.  In the 1870 census, he is shown as a boarder in the house of Thomas W. Cloud.

John Buck and Sarah Catlett had the following children:

• Charles S. Buck (1815-1893); married Sarah Jane McKay; died in Virginia.
• Susan Helen Buck (1822-1889); married Joseph Parkins; died in Virginia.
• Lucy Catlett Buck (1826-1904); married Samuel Gardner Buck, MD; died in Virginia.
• Elizabeth Buck (1828- ); married Alexander Adams.
• Sarah Letitia Buck (1832- ); married Thomas William Cloud.
• Thomas Newton Buck (1838-1926); married Emma Cloud; died in Virginia.  Ran a repair shop.

John Buck died April 17, 1872 in Virginia.  Sarah Catlett Buck died September 29, 1854 of “ulcered lungs” in Virginia.

Letitia Buck (1775-1850)

Letitia Buck was born on January 19, 1775, the first child of Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson.  

Letitia Buck and George Floyd Catlett were married on November 23, 1794 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. George Catlett, the son of Robert Catlett and Mary Ann Floyd, was born in 1770 in Virginia.  Letitia Buck and George Catlett moved from to Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky in 1816.

Letitia Buck and George Catlett had the following children:

• Fannie Madison Catlett (1797-1837); married Calmes Catlett; died in Kentucky.
• Thomas Washington Catlett (1799-1880); married (1) Isabella Fields Helm; (2) Martha Maria Louisa Clark; died in Kentucky.
• Henrietta Catlett (1803-1862); married Joseph Majors; died in Kentucky.
• Mary Buck Catlett (1804-1847); married David Shahan; died in Texas.
• Henry Calmes Catlett (1812-1878); married Mary Elizabeth Buck; died in Kentucky during yellow fever epidemic.  A physician.
• Rebecca Catlett (1815-1876); married Armistead Ludwell Churchill; died in Missouri.

Letitia Buck died in 1850 at the age of 74. George Catlett died in 1851 in Union County, Kentucky.

The Family of Charles Buck II

A previous post introduced Charles Buck II, son of Charles Buck I and his second wife, Letitia Sorrell, and provided a few details about his life.  The next several posts will focus on his children.  All of the children of Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson were born in Virginia but some moved to Woodford County, Kentucky.  

Here is a summary list of the children of Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson:

• Letitia Buck (1776 – 1850); married George Catlett.
• Thomas Buck Rev. (1777-1862); married Amelia L. Dawson.
• Sarah Buck (1780-1785).
• Samuel Buck (1783-1841); married Mary P. Bayly.
• John Buck (1785-1857); married Sarah Catlett.
• Charles Buck III (1788-1870); married Lucy Chilton Bayliss.
• William Calmes Buck I (1790-1872); married (1) Maria Lewright, 1815 and (2) Isabella Miriam Field; died in Waco, Texas. Perhaps the most renowned member of the Buck family.
• Mary Richardson Buck (1792-1823); married William Mountjoy Bayly.

In his will, Charles Buck II left their house and surroundings to his wife, Mary, and divided the land equally (by value) to his children.  Some of the land had already been sold (“conveyed”) while other sections continued to be farmed by the inheritor.  

Charles Buck II and Mary Richardson had seven children who reached adulthood and forty-eight grandchildren.

Peter Catlett Buck

Peter Catlett Buck was born in 1779 to John Buck and Miriam Richardson. Peter Catlett Buck and Miriam Price were married in 1811 in Fayette, Kentucky.  Miriam Price was born in 1793, the daughter of Samuel Price and Elizabeth Richardson.  About 1830, they moved from Woodford County, Kentucky to a farm in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

Peter Catlett Buck and Miriam Price Buck had the following children:

• Mary Elizabeth Buck (1812-1861); married Henry C. Catlett, 1832.
• Martha Ann Buck (1813-1850); married Samuel Dawson Buck, 1832.
• Rebecca Price BUCK (1815-1891); married John Buck Helm, 1865.
• John Richardson Buck (1817-1848); married Sarah Cowan, 1845.
• Eliza Margaret Ann Buck (1820-1868); married Peter N. Marr, 1840.
• Sarah Price Buck (1822-1859); married S. J. Leavell, 1844.
• Lucy Belle Buck (1824-1895); married John William Blanton, 1851.
• Annie Russell Buck (1826-1855); married William Robinson, 1846.
• Samuella P. Buck (1828-1891); married Joseph Keith, 1847.
• Charles Peter Buck (1835-1915); married Letitia Churchill, 1858; died in Mississippi County, Arkansas.

Peter Catlett Buck died in 1860 at the age of 81. Miriam Price died in 1862.  They were buried in Montgomery County, Tennessee.