This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VYG.2ACIB/1582.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hiram Clinton Buck bn 11 Jun 1822 D 01 Dec 1897 married Harriet Ann Atkins divorced same Michagan (?) they had two children Morgan F. and Sylvia Ann Married Adelia Abigal Potter in Michagan 02 Jan 1857 bn 06 Aug 1836 NY died 07 Apr 1911 Kiowa County CO. They had twelve children born in Smith County KS Mike and I have shared the information on our Great Great Great Grandfather so he has pretty much said most of it but I will try to expand a little in case it might help. I have Hiram’s obituary that says he died at home on the 160 acres that he had homesteaded in Crystal Plains, Smith County KS. He is buried at the Crystal Plains Cemetery, Smith county Kansas. On his headstone it says that he served in CO A 21 Reg Mich Vol. He homesteaded in 1873 according to the article in the Smith County Journal vol VIII No 18 Thursday, December. He came with his second wife Adelia Abigal Potter, Rachel Ann, Alice Marie and James Oliver from Michgan. I am not sure if his children by Harriet Ann were with him or not. From the information that I have received from others I do not believe that is the case. However, in his will he did list Morgan F. Buck as inheriting some of his property (Cannot find any records indicating that Morgan F. Buck was in KS) that was only if his! wife was not alive at the time of his death and she was. Adelia Abigal Buck and James Oliver Buck along with His wife Rachel McClain and their family of twelve children on August 4 1908 left their home in Smith County KS to homestead in Colorado. They homesteaded in Kiowa County CO. Kiowa County compiled by Roleta D. Teal and Betty Lee Jacobs Article Pioneer Family page 371 by Ruby B Wissel. I have a great deal of information on the decedents of the bucks from Hiram on down including his two daughters Rachel and Alice that married brothers David and Thomas Jones. I know nothing about his first wife Harriet and the two children Morgan F and Sylvia Ann until now