Samuel Gordon Buckner

Birth Date

c1836

Death Date

1914-04-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Francis W. Buckner and Sarah A. Gordon Buckner. Married to Katie S. Woldridge Buckner in Trigg County, Kentucky, on March 26, 1857. Father of Thomas W. Buckner, Frank W. Buckner, and Joe C. Buckner. Resident in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Christian County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Farmer in Christian County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 361B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 3 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 717. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, pp. 53-4 of microfilm. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 4, p. 461B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film #000321335, p. 288 of microfilm. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Vol. 1, Christian County, KY, August 1863, p. 15, (Accessed via ancestry.com on November 18, 2019). Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #701618, Henderson County Deaths, Certificate #7681 (Thomas W. Buckner), p. 1088 of microfilm. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7016163, Christian County Deaths, Certificate #9655, p. 3049 of microfilm. KYR-0004-033-0001.

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