Peterborough Examiner Newspaper
April 25, 1966Funeral service for Mrs. Mary Edna Drinkwalter ,62,162 Parkhill Rd. W.,was held today at 1:30 p.m. at the Kaye funeral home, Canon Winston Nainby, Port Hope,officiated.
Mrs. Drinkwalter died Friday in a Peterborough hospital after a lengthy illness. Burial was in Union Cemetery, Cobourg.
Pallbearers were her five sons,Ivan, Douglas, Lorne, Orland and Harold Drinkwalter, and William Eastabrook.
Mrs. Drinkwalter was born and educated in Warsaw. She moved to Peterborough 14 years ago from Cobourg. She was employed for 12 years at Fannings Launderers and Dry Cleaners Ltd. until May, 1965.
Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lonsberry. Her mother was the former Lily Mary Easson. She was predeceased by her husband, the late Ernest James Drinkwalter.
Surviving are five sons: Ivan, Douglas and Lorne Drinkwalter, Peterborough; Harold, Victoria, B.C.,and Orland, Port Hope.
She has one sister,Mrs. Clarence Manley (Nellie),Peterborough; one brother,Gordon Lonsberry, Toronto; and eight grandchildren.
32387. Desire Hichborn McGilvery
Desire McGilvery was engaged to Amos Nickels, but he died at sea. She then married William Buck, son of Henry Buck, whom she met while going to South Carolina with her father. The Penobscot Marine Museum has a portrait of Amos Nickels. Emerson Stone remarked that she lost Nickels but got a Buck.
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Marion Cor. News and Courier
Marion, Feb 2 - Mrs. D. Mcg. Buck died of Pneumonia at 2 o'clock this morning after an illness of about ten days. Mrs Buck was 65 years of age and was raised at Serasport, Maine, where her mother still resides. She was a Miss McGilvery and about the beginning of the war between the States, was married to Mr. William J. Buck, of Bucksville, Horry county. Some time after the death of her husband, twenty two years ago, Mrs. Buck moved to this place and has resided here continuously since.
Her children who survive her are : Messrs. W. McG. and Henry Buck, of this county; Mrs. W. E. Sparkman, of Georgetown; Mrs. H. S. Simpson, of Glenn Springs; Mrs. P, B. Hamer and Mrs. S. W. Norwood of this place. One daughter, Mrs. E. T. Wilcox, of Marion died two and a half years ago. Mrs. Buck's death is a very great blow to her family and friends.
William L. Buck went to school in Gorham, Maine. he worked with his father at the Henry Buck Company and commuted regularly from Bucksville, SC to Searsport, ME, where he spent many summers keeping an eye on his father's investments. The Priscilla Jones collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum library says he was born in 1827 and died January 4, 1880.
William L. Buck's shipyard supplied the lumber for the ship Henrietta, the largest ship ever built at Bucksville, S.C. She was launched in April, 1875 and was named for the wife of her captain, Jonathan C. Nichols, a master mariner and ship owner of Searsport, Maine, who decided to build a ship at Bucksville, where the raw materials were close at hand. Captain Jonathan Nichols and Master Builder Elishua Dunbar came from Maine with 115 ship's carpenters, blacksmiths, joiners and riggers in September, 1874 and laid the keel. She was 45 feet beam, and her cut-water was 42 feet from bowsprit to keel. She was built to draw 12 feet light. Outside of keel and ribs gotten out in the swamps and woods, she had 1,300,000 feet of mill-cut lumber. It took the men from Maine and 10-15 laborers from S. C. all winter to build her. She was launched in May, 1875. With spars, rigging and what she had on board, she drew 13 feet. Georgetown bar afforded about 12 feet at high water. When Capt. Nichols was ready to take her to Georgetown, they built a cradle with a network of ropes holding 200 empty turpentine barrels, which they put under the ship to raise her. She was taken to Charleston to have masts placed on her and never returned to either Georgetown or Charleston as she drew too much water for their harbors. The Henrietta cost $90,000 to build. A sister ship built in Maine at the same time cost $115,000, making a difference of $25,000 in favor of building in the south. Ninety percent of W.L. Buck & Co's business was with northern ship builders. They all told him that if they continued ship building at Bucksville, S.C., they (the Northern builders) would do no more business with them. W. L. Buck & Co built no more ships in S.C. The Henrietta was operated mainly in trade with the Orient and Australia. Her passages averaged well for a ship classed as a carrier. Capt. Andrew M. Ross took command of Henrietta in November, 1890 and accompanied by his wife and three daughters, Marth Jane, Henrietta Lucy, and Rebecca Merithew, sailed from New York to Portland, Oregon in 156 days. Thirty-six days were spent battling summer gales off Capt Horn. During her stay in Portland, President Harrison inspected her with great interest. In May, 1891, the ship loaded lumber at Fairhaven Bellingham Bay for Melbourne, Australia. There she loaded wool for Boston. Mrs. Ross and her daughters left the ship and Boston to return to Searsport, Maine. From Boston, the ship loaded lumbere for Buenos Aires, a trip of 49 days. From Buenos Aires back to New York in ballast for 45 days. In New York she loaded oil for Singapore and came back to New York with a general caro, again loading oil for Yokaama. In August, 1894, the sip loaded 800n ton of manganese ore and a miscellaneous cargo before sailing for New York. She was overtaken by a typhoon in entering Kobe Harbot, and the pilot in charge ran her back some 15 miles to what appeared secure anchaorage. The wind increased so that it became necessary to cut away here masts. In the gale, her ground tackle parted and she went ashore. All hands were saved, but the Henrietta was a total loss.
The obituary of William L. Buck stated that he died in Charleston on Sunday, January 4, 1880. Mr. Buck had gone to Charleston to receive medical treatment for an inernal tumor, which disease caused his death. Deceaseed married Desire, edlest daughter of the late William McGilvery and was one of he administrators of the McGilvery este. Mr. Buck complained of ill health last summeer, and in October, accompanied by his wife, left Searsport for the South. Henry B., the father of William, was a native of this State (Maine), but went to South Carolina and founded the town of Bucksville, where he was extensively engaged in lumbering operations. Large quantities of hard pine have been shipped North from his mills. On the death of his father, William succeeded him in the lumber business, which he has since carried on. William L. Buck was a gentleman of intelligence and ability, had many friends, both in the North and the South, and at the time of his death was a member of the South Carolina State Senate. He was fifty-two years of age and leaves a wife and seven children.
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Mrs. Hattie McGilvery Sparkman, wife of Dr. William E. Sparkman of this city, died at her home in Georgetown, early Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Sparkman was born in Bucksville, S.C., September 11, 1861, and spent her girlhood days at Bucksville and Tip Top Plantation on the Upper Waccamaw. She was the eldest daughter of the Hon. William L. and Desiah Buck both well known citizens of Horry County.
On November 17, 1881, she was married to Dr. W. E. Sparkman at Tip Top Plantation, and since that time she has spent the greater part of her life in Georgetown or Georgetown county.
Mrs. Sparkman has been in poor health for some time, but her death came as a distinct shock to the whole community. She has been an active member of Prince George Church since her residence in Georgetown.
She is survived by her husband; 3 children: Dr. W. B. Sparkman, of Greenville; Dr. James R. Sparkman of Spartanburg, and Mrs. Franz Whitte of Marion and seven grandchildren.
The funeral services were conducted from the Church of Prince George, Winyah, at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, the Rev. H. D. Bull officiating. Interment took place in the church yard.
Albertine's older brother, Uncle Will, is remembered by some for telling young children that he might "grease your head and swallow you whole."
Mary Clark Buck Simpson, known as Aunt Molly to the children of her sister Albertine, seemed to have something against her brother-in-law Samuel Wilkins Norwood, but no one knows what it was. Her husband, Harvey Simpson, had a brother Frank, whom some thought Albertine should marry, but Albertine said there was nothing between them.
Pratt Gasque in Heads & Tales of Old Marion Nov. 20, 1991 say that Edward T. (E.T.) Willcox built a cottage in the Sunnyside section of Murrells Inlet.
56151. Elizabeth Albertine Buck
Albertine Buck visited her grandmother Mary Clark Buck Walton in Maine and said that her grandmother became tearful when speaking of her first marriage. She also visited her grandmother Harriet Hichborn McGilvery. Elizabeth Albertine was named for her mother's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Nickels. As a girl she was called Flaxy Frizzle for her strawberry blond curls. Some records call her Lizzie. As an adult she was sometimes called Teenie (from Albertine).
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The 1913 Genealogy of the Buck Family by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Richards says that Henry Buck was a lawyer living at Marion, S.C.
Louisa N. Haskell says that David had a violent temper and that he and Sarah were divorced.
US Passpoprt Application
Issue 30 Jan 1919From this passport application we find that Miram Stowers was adopted by John Stowers. She was the daughter of Asbury Caldwell and born in Chicago.
We also note that she had been appointed a Secretary of the National War Council of the Y.M.C.A. for the service of troops of the American Expeditionary Force in France.
Reno Evening Gazette
November 16, 1936Mrs. Isabel French Fletcher, wife of F. N. Fletcher, and a prominent resident of Reno since 1908, died this morning. She had been ill for several months. Born in Lincolnville, Me., in 1859 Mrs. Fletcher spent the greater part of her life in the West and was prominently identified with social and club activities here until a year ago when failing health confined her to her home. She was a past president of the Twentieth Club of Reno and was a member of the Monday Club of Reno and the Sagebrush Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher were married in Belfast, Me., in 1883 and shortly thereafter went to Helena, Mont., where they made their home for a number of years. In 1904, they moved to Berkeley, Cal., where they remained a short time before going to Goldfield, Nev. In 1908 they moved to Reno and have made their home here since.
Mr. Fletcher, director of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, was for a number of years secretary of the Nevada state tax commission.
Besides her husband Mrs. Fletcher leaves a daughter, Miss Ethel L. Fletcher of Reno, three sons, Dr. Harold Fletcher of San Francisco, Dr. Russell Fletcher of San Francisco, and Howard Fletcher of Berkeley; two brothers, Robert French of San Francisco, and Howard French of New York and a sister, Mary Parry Rich of Rockland, Me., and six grandchildren.
Find-a-GraveMr. Fletcher was born in China Me., Sept. 15, 1856 and completed his early education by attending Colby College. A graduate with the class of 1882 he was Colby's oldest living alumnus. He and Jane Isabel French were married in Belfast, Me., April 15. 1883. A teacher in Maine, Mr. Fletcher engaged in newspaper work and mining in Michigan and Montana He was editor of the Alpena, Mich.. Pioneer at one time. Moving to Berkeley in 1896. He first. came to Nevada in 1904 during the Goldfield boom and came to Reno in 1908. Mr. Fletcher was appointed by Gov. Tasker L Oddie as a member of the Nevada tax commission in 1913, and in 1917 became executive secretary of the commission. He made his home in Carson from 1917 to 1922 while he held the secretaryship.
When the Nevada Taxpayers association was organized in 1922 to investigate public expenditures, Mr. Fletcher became director and served until his retirement in 1940 when he moved to Berkeley. During that time he also served as president of the Nevada State Board of Education. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the, Unitarian church. Mr. Fletcher's hobby for many years was the study of Western history, particularly that of the Great Basin. He carefully studied and examined old records and followed with painstaking enthusiasm, many of the trails made by the first explorers in the intermountain country. The studies and investigations he made he turned to the entertainment and instruction of thousands of public address and his small volume on "Early Nevada" was published in 1929. The chapters of the book were by special arrangement republished in the historical volume of the publication of the late Sen. James G. Scrugham, "History of Nevada."
Private memorial services for Fred N. Fletcher, 97, pioneer, Berkeley resident, organizer of the Nevada Taxpayers Assn. and oldest living alumunus of Colby College in Maine, have been held today. Mr. Fletcher died at his home 2935 Pine Ave., Wednesday. Born in China, Me., he was graduated from Colby College in 1882, and came to Berkeley in 1896. Mr. Fletcher lived here until 1908, when he moved to Reno, Nev., and returned to Berkeley in 1940 when he retired at the age of 83. He had a varied career, including newspaper, mining, and tax work. He organized the Nevada's Taxpayer Assn. in 1922 and was a former president of the State of Nevada Board of Education.
Surving are a daughter, Ethel L. Fletcher of Berkeley; two sons Howard F. Fletcher of Berkeley and Dr. Russell Fletcher of Kentfield; 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.