The son of Charles & Margaret M. (Beatty) Buckius, in 1860 he was living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1865, he was a shoemaker (apparently horse shoes) and stood 5' 5" tall with light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 6, 1865, as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865.
He married Emma Dellet and fathered Henry Whitby (b. 04/01/68), Charles A. (b. 07/23/69), and Walter Aloysius (b. 01/31/73). He died at his home from a reported stomach ailment. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal describes him as a "temperate" man who was an expert at shoeing horses and a man of "immense strength" who had "overworked himself."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 6, 1865, as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865.
He married Emma Dellet and fathered Henry Whitby (b. 04/01/68), Charles A. (b. 07/23/69), and Walter Aloysius (b. 01/31/73). He died at his home from a reported stomach ailment. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal describes him as a "temperate" man who was an expert at shoeing horses and a man of "immense strength" who had "overworked himself."
The son of Charles & Margaret M. (Beatty) Buckius, in 1860 he was living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1865, he was a shoemaker (apparently horse shoes) and stood 5' 5" tall with light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 6, 1865, as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865.
He married Emma Dellet and fathered Henry Whitby (b. 04/01/68), Charles A. (b. 07/23/69), and Walter Aloysius (b. 01/31/73). He died at his home from a reported stomach ailment. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal describes him as a "temperate" man who was an expert at shoeing horses and a man of "immense strength" who had "overworked himself."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 6, 1865, as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865.
He married Emma Dellet and fathered Henry Whitby (b. 04/01/68), Charles A. (b. 07/23/69), and Walter Aloysius (b. 01/31/73). He died at his home from a reported stomach ailment. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal describes him as a "temperate" man who was an expert at shoeing horses and a man of "immense strength" who had "overworked himself."
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