Thomas J. Buckley was born in County Cork according to his granddaughter, Bernadette (daughter of James Bernard Buckley). He sailed with his parents, James Buckley and Ellen (Healey) Buckley on 16 Feb. 1851 from Liverpool on the "John Haven"--arriving in New Orleans in April of that year. The only death on the voyage was that of his infant sister, Ellen, on March 12. Bernadette also knew Ellen's maiden name.
His siblings who reached New Orleans were Patrick, Mary and Margaret.
The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tom worked as a blacksmith--now would be called an engineer. He continued in that occupation there even after his mother bought a family home on Center in Covington, KY, and a two story business building on Main in Covington in the middle of the 600 block--across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
He married Rose E. Coffey at St. Ann's Catholic Church up in West Covington, KY, near where her mother owned a home overlooking the Ohio River and the lights of Cincinnati. A typed copy of their application for a marriage license is in a card file in the basement of the Kenton County Library in Covington.
Tom and Rose began a family and lived in Covington until her cousin, Peter Coffey who was Superintendent of the Gas Company in Peoria, Illinois, asked Tom to come to work for him. They bought a big two story bungalow on Water in Peoria. Tom worked up to be Foreman of the Gas Company.
On Saturdays, Tom took his sons across the Illinois River in his rowboat to hunt and fish on the other side--which now is East Peoria. Then it was just open land. Sundays the family went to church.
Late in life Tom retired and became laborer and a Justice of the Peace one year. They sold the big house on Water and built a smaller house up on West Moss St. In last years they moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas, at the invitation of their daughter Nell (Helen) Kleiner so they could avoid the cold winters in Peoria. Tom and Rose died two weeks apart and are buried in Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, informant on their death certifficates was Arnold J. Kleiner, their daughter Nell's husband instead of their daughter Nell or their son James Bernard Buckley who both lived in Stuttgart. There are about 10 errors on each death certificate because Kleiner had no idea what the facts were about his in-laws.
Their son James knew the family history and should have been informant. However, he wasn't speaking to his sister, Nell, because Kleiner encouraged Jim and his brother Thomas J. Buckley to come to Stuttgart to make a fortune in rice farming. They invested in that endeavor and lost their money. Jim stayed and began a plumbing business from home. Some of his children left that backwater asap and became successful on return to Illinois. Descendants became attorneys and judges in Chicago.
Brother Thomas Joseph Buckley left Stuttgart to go to the Alaska Gold Rush. Then to the San Francisco Bay Area where he married, bought a Victorian home, raised a family.
Tom took his boys to Yosemite as soon as the snows melted each spring and stayed until the snows arrived again. As his son Archie, who carried the photography equipment each summer for the famous photographer of Yosemite, Ansel Adams, told me--he missed a lot of school, but it was a fabulous life. Archie wound up with an entire city block planted in an organic garden around his house in San Leandro. An interesting family--as most are.
His siblings who reached New Orleans were Patrick, Mary and Margaret.
The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tom worked as a blacksmith--now would be called an engineer. He continued in that occupation there even after his mother bought a family home on Center in Covington, KY, and a two story business building on Main in Covington in the middle of the 600 block--across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
He married Rose E. Coffey at St. Ann's Catholic Church up in West Covington, KY, near where her mother owned a home overlooking the Ohio River and the lights of Cincinnati. A typed copy of their application for a marriage license is in a card file in the basement of the Kenton County Library in Covington.
Tom and Rose began a family and lived in Covington until her cousin, Peter Coffey who was Superintendent of the Gas Company in Peoria, Illinois, asked Tom to come to work for him. They bought a big two story bungalow on Water in Peoria. Tom worked up to be Foreman of the Gas Company.
On Saturdays, Tom took his sons across the Illinois River in his rowboat to hunt and fish on the other side--which now is East Peoria. Then it was just open land. Sundays the family went to church.
Late in life Tom retired and became laborer and a Justice of the Peace one year. They sold the big house on Water and built a smaller house up on West Moss St. In last years they moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas, at the invitation of their daughter Nell (Helen) Kleiner so they could avoid the cold winters in Peoria. Tom and Rose died two weeks apart and are buried in Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, informant on their death certifficates was Arnold J. Kleiner, their daughter Nell's husband instead of their daughter Nell or their son James Bernard Buckley who both lived in Stuttgart. There are about 10 errors on each death certificate because Kleiner had no idea what the facts were about his in-laws.
Their son James knew the family history and should have been informant. However, he wasn't speaking to his sister, Nell, because Kleiner encouraged Jim and his brother Thomas J. Buckley to come to Stuttgart to make a fortune in rice farming. They invested in that endeavor and lost their money. Jim stayed and began a plumbing business from home. Some of his children left that backwater asap and became successful on return to Illinois. Descendants became attorneys and judges in Chicago.
Brother Thomas Joseph Buckley left Stuttgart to go to the Alaska Gold Rush. Then to the San Francisco Bay Area where he married, bought a Victorian home, raised a family.
Tom took his boys to Yosemite as soon as the snows melted each spring and stayed until the snows arrived again. As his son Archie, who carried the photography equipment each summer for the famous photographer of Yosemite, Ansel Adams, told me--he missed a lot of school, but it was a fabulous life. Archie wound up with an entire city block planted in an organic garden around his house in San Leandro. An interesting family--as most are.
Thomas J. Buckley was born in County Cork according to his granddaughter, Bernadette (daughter of James Bernard Buckley). He sailed with his parents, James Buckley and Ellen (Healey) Buckley on 16 Feb. 1851 from Liverpool on the "John Haven"--arriving in New Orleans in April of that year. The only death on the voyage was that of his infant sister, Ellen, on March 12. Bernadette also knew Ellen's maiden name.
His siblings who reached New Orleans were Patrick, Mary and Margaret.
The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tom worked as a blacksmith--now would be called an engineer. He continued in that occupation there even after his mother bought a family home on Center in Covington, KY, and a two story business building on Main in Covington in the middle of the 600 block--across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
He married Rose E. Coffey at St. Ann's Catholic Church up in West Covington, KY, near where her mother owned a home overlooking the Ohio River and the lights of Cincinnati. A typed copy of their application for a marriage license is in a card file in the basement of the Kenton County Library in Covington.
Tom and Rose began a family and lived in Covington until her cousin, Peter Coffey who was Superintendent of the Gas Company in Peoria, Illinois, asked Tom to come to work for him. They bought a big two story bungalow on Water in Peoria. Tom worked up to be Foreman of the Gas Company.
On Saturdays, Tom took his sons across the Illinois River in his rowboat to hunt and fish on the other side--which now is East Peoria. Then it was just open land. Sundays the family went to church.
Late in life Tom retired and became laborer and a Justice of the Peace one year. They sold the big house on Water and built a smaller house up on West Moss St. In last years they moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas, at the invitation of their daughter Nell (Helen) Kleiner so they could avoid the cold winters in Peoria. Tom and Rose died two weeks apart and are buried in Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, informant on their death certifficates was Arnold J. Kleiner, their daughter Nell's husband instead of their daughter Nell or their son James Bernard Buckley who both lived in Stuttgart. There are about 10 errors on each death certificate because Kleiner had no idea what the facts were about his in-laws.
Their son James knew the family history and should have been informant. However, he wasn't speaking to his sister, Nell, because Kleiner encouraged Jim and his brother Thomas J. Buckley to come to Stuttgart to make a fortune in rice farming. They invested in that endeavor and lost their money. Jim stayed and began a plumbing business from home. Some of his children left that backwater asap and became successful on return to Illinois. Descendants became attorneys and judges in Chicago.
Brother Thomas Joseph Buckley left Stuttgart to go to the Alaska Gold Rush. Then to the San Francisco Bay Area where he married, bought a Victorian home, raised a family.
Tom took his boys to Yosemite as soon as the snows melted each spring and stayed until the snows arrived again. As his son Archie, who carried the photography equipment each summer for the famous photographer of Yosemite, Ansel Adams, told me--he missed a lot of school, but it was a fabulous life. Archie wound up with an entire city block planted in an organic garden around his house in San Leandro. An interesting family--as most are.
His siblings who reached New Orleans were Patrick, Mary and Margaret.
The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tom worked as a blacksmith--now would be called an engineer. He continued in that occupation there even after his mother bought a family home on Center in Covington, KY, and a two story business building on Main in Covington in the middle of the 600 block--across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
He married Rose E. Coffey at St. Ann's Catholic Church up in West Covington, KY, near where her mother owned a home overlooking the Ohio River and the lights of Cincinnati. A typed copy of their application for a marriage license is in a card file in the basement of the Kenton County Library in Covington.
Tom and Rose began a family and lived in Covington until her cousin, Peter Coffey who was Superintendent of the Gas Company in Peoria, Illinois, asked Tom to come to work for him. They bought a big two story bungalow on Water in Peoria. Tom worked up to be Foreman of the Gas Company.
On Saturdays, Tom took his sons across the Illinois River in his rowboat to hunt and fish on the other side--which now is East Peoria. Then it was just open land. Sundays the family went to church.
Late in life Tom retired and became laborer and a Justice of the Peace one year. They sold the big house on Water and built a smaller house up on West Moss St. In last years they moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas, at the invitation of their daughter Nell (Helen) Kleiner so they could avoid the cold winters in Peoria. Tom and Rose died two weeks apart and are buried in Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, informant on their death certifficates was Arnold J. Kleiner, their daughter Nell's husband instead of their daughter Nell or their son James Bernard Buckley who both lived in Stuttgart. There are about 10 errors on each death certificate because Kleiner had no idea what the facts were about his in-laws.
Their son James knew the family history and should have been informant. However, he wasn't speaking to his sister, Nell, because Kleiner encouraged Jim and his brother Thomas J. Buckley to come to Stuttgart to make a fortune in rice farming. They invested in that endeavor and lost their money. Jim stayed and began a plumbing business from home. Some of his children left that backwater asap and became successful on return to Illinois. Descendants became attorneys and judges in Chicago.
Brother Thomas Joseph Buckley left Stuttgart to go to the Alaska Gold Rush. Then to the San Francisco Bay Area where he married, bought a Victorian home, raised a family.
Tom took his boys to Yosemite as soon as the snows melted each spring and stayed until the snows arrived again. As his son Archie, who carried the photography equipment each summer for the famous photographer of Yosemite, Ansel Adams, told me--he missed a lot of school, but it was a fabulous life. Archie wound up with an entire city block planted in an organic garden around his house in San Leandro. An interesting family--as most are.
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