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Ebenezer Buckingham

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Ebenezer Buckingham

Birth
Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
21 Aug 1832 (aged 54)
Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
North Mound
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Married Catharine Putnam on 27 Nov 1805 in Washington County, OH. Father of Gen. Catherinus Putnam Buckingham.

Ebenezer Buckingham died while overseeing the building of the third Y-Bridge, which he owned and helped design. As a flood in 1832 threatened to destroy all the progress on the bridge, Buckingham told his workers to remove the wedges that held the support beams in place. This should have weakened the bridge, but prevent it from being washed away with the flood. When they did this the bridge collapsed and Buckingham and James Boyd were killed.
Married Catharine Putnam on 27 Nov 1805 in Washington County, OH. Father of Gen. Catherinus Putnam Buckingham.

Ebenezer Buckingham died while overseeing the building of the third Y-Bridge, which he owned and helped design. As a flood in 1832 threatened to destroy all the progress on the bridge, Buckingham told his workers to remove the wedges that held the support beams in place. This should have weakened the bridge, but prevent it from being washed away with the flood. When they did this the bridge collapsed and Buckingham and James Boyd were killed.

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Killed at the building of the old Y-bridge.



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