Jeanette Buckner

Jeanette Buckner (maiden name: Davis) was born around 1854 in Kentucky to George and Jeanette (Bucklin) Davis. Her father was a prominent merchant and the president of the Fourth National Bank. She married a Gabriel Lewis Buckner on October 10, 1888. Following her husband's death on October 21, 1896, Buckner began receiving a pension of $12 a month, beginning on May 9, 1908. At some point, Buckner's pension transferred from Louisville to Boston, Massachusetts. According to the 1910 census, she was then living at the home of her brother-in-law George W. Kittredge in Yonkers, New York. By May 23, 1928 her pension had increased to $40 a month. She died March 31, 1933, in Yonkers. Buckner is buried alongside her husband in Louisville.

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Name:Buckner, Jeanette
Alternative names:
  • Davis, Jeanette (alternative name)
Roles:
  • Spouse
  • UVA (Union)
Gender:F
Race:White
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Person 1Person 2NumberRelation Type
Buckner, Gabriel LewisBuckner, Jeanette655356application-widow
Buckner, Gabriel LewisBuckner, Jeanette652991certificate-widow
Birth date:1852
Birth date certainty:Certain
Birth place:Kentucky
Death date:1933-03-31
Death place:Yonkers, NY
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Person 1Relation TypePerson 2
Buckner, Jeanettewife ofBuckner, Gabriel Lewis
SOURCES

Pension records for Gabriel L. Buckner, RG 15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville from Its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. I (1896); "Jeanette Buckner," FindAGrave.com (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=5058061...).