This Buckner Family History Page of Geneology
   
BUCKNER FAMILY 1850 to 1999
 

This paricular Buckner Family goes back to George and Matilda Buckner in the mountains of Newport,Cocke County,Tennessee in the 1850's .
This is the census of 1850 showing this family :


BUCKNER George 24 M TN Farmer 150
745-791 Matilda 25 F NC I
Amelia 3 F TN
William 2 M TN
James M. 7/12 M TN (Census taken 9/ /50)
--------------------------------------------------
William Nelson Buckner was my Great-Grand-Father who went on to marry Elvira CUTTS in the picture to the left .
They had a family consisting of :
George Henry Calvin Buckner
William Buckner
Walter Buckner
(These are the only ones I know of at this time)
My Grand-Father married Mary Rachel WILLIAMS from Sevierville,Sevier County,Tennessee and had a total of nine children which included my father Henry Chambers Buckner in 1904.
Known members are :
Scott Buckner
Ollie Buckner
Dollie Buckner
Robert Phelps Buckner
Thomas Garfield Buckner
Charles Wattenbarger Buckner
Lucresia Buckner
Henry Chambers Buckner Married Mae Bell SWAFFORD .
Leatha Buckner
All of these members are now deceased but generated large families on their own .
(These particular records of names are not found on any of the other geneology charts on the internet!) This is the official record of my family gathered by myself , Larry Newton Buckner .
 
Crossing the Mighty Tennessee River on The Georgetown Ferry
Vintage 1975 at Georgetown,Tennessee
Sean , Larry ,Sara and Stepahnie Buckner on their way across the Tennessee River .
Them Buckner people are always trying to cross something !
















 
Tennessee Sunset
Seven(7)Towns in The Buckner Chain:
Buckner,North Carolina
Buckner,Virginia
Buckner,Kentucky
Buckner,Illinois
Buckner,Missouri
Buckner,Arkansas
Buckner,Louisiana
Some Named after ancesters who lived and settled there by that name and a few named after the Confederate General Simon Boliver Buckner who was a close pal to General and President U.S.Grant and had a coloful history of his own .
There will be more to follow. We Buckner's don't lay claim in kin to any particular Buckner Line .We are proud of who we are and what we've done .



 
Favourite links
 

Buckner Family
From The Mountains of Tennessee


Sgt.Gary Duncan of Australia
Dodging Crocks& Nabbing Bloody Crooks


Family Tradition
Yet Another Place to Visit

Email me at:
[email protected]

This page has been visited times.