Robert and Elizabeth Buckles Had at least 4 Children:

Oliver "Perry" Buckles
Harrison Buckles, Married to Pearlie M. Buckles
Kate (Buckles) Bright, Married to Peter Bright
Rolla G. Buckles


Buckles, Robert M, 1819-1903 - obituary

Source: Johnson News, Johnson, Nebraska, 9 Oct 1903

Robert M, son of James and Margaret Buckles was born July 19th 1819 in an early settlers cabin in the wild forest of Miami county Ohio, near the place where the city of Conover now stands. He was raised in the humble way of the backwoodsman's child and educated in the rude district school of that time. He possessed unusual strength and used it to a good advantage in clearing away the forest that the land might be farmed. Thus his boyhood days were spend in the hardships of those early days, where luxury was unknown and in 1844 he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wilson and started on life's journey in a humble way, not known today. To this union ten children were born, two dying in infancy and the rest, three men and five women are still living. In 1869 he became enthused with the possibilities of the great west and in April of that year the family moved to Brownville, NE where they resided until the next year when they moved to a farm on the prairie two miles from the place where Johnson now stands. Thus again he endured the hardships of an early settler, this time on the broad treeless prairie instead of in the forest. In 1884, the children having all reached their majority and drifted from the parental roof, and Grandpa having been elected justice of the peace, decided to move to the new village of Johnson where he resided until his death with the exception of one year in Auburn, NE. It was in the same house where he died that Grandma departed this life Dec. 3, 1887.

Grandpa Buckles was a member of the first school board and was the chief promoter in building the first school building in district 23 and was also a member of the board that built the first school house in Johnson. He was justice of the peace for many years which gave him the familiar name of Squire Buckles. He was a faithful believer in the religion of Christ, having been a true member of the Johnson Baptist church ever since its organization twenty seven years ago in the old school house just east of town, and never missed a favorable chance to attend divine services or speak a helpful word for any good cause. In politics he was very firm in his belief and felt proud of the fact that he had voted for the nation's greatest men such as William H. Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, James A Garfield and William McKinley. He always enjoyed good health and would have been taken for a man ten years younger on the day of his death. Suffering he never knew, but death comes to the strong as well as the weak and at 8:30 o'clock on Friday morning, October 2nd, 1903 he passed away at the age of 84 years, 2 months and 13 days leaving three sons, five daughters, nineteen grandchildren and five great grand-children to mourn his death, all living on Nebraska soil except Rolla G and Mrs G. W. Humphrys a daughter. All his children except Rolla were present at the funeral which was held at the Baptist church on Sunday morning by his pastor, Rev. H. C. King. After the remains had been viewed for the last time, hundreds of relatives, neighbors and friends, the sad march to the grave was commenced on one of natures brightest days and they laid him to rest by the side of the one that had gone before.