Obituary - Mount Pulaski Times-News, 6 May 1948 John A. Buckles, 92, Died Sunday; Pioneer Resident Services Held Tuesday at Schahl Funeral Home John Andrew Buckles, residing on North Belmont Street, Mount Pulaski, Illinois, a great many years, and one of the city's best known aged residents, died at 6 a.m. Sunday, May 2, 1948, in the Deaconess Hospital, Lincoln, Illinois, where he had been a patient almost five weeks. His health had been failing for several months. He was aged 91 years, 2 months, and 14 days. Mr. Buckles was born Feb. 18, 1857, on a farm about two miles southwest of the Mount Pulaski public square, on the place now occupied by the John Bates family, a son of Jeremiah and Mary Copeland Buckles, pioneer residents of this community. His grandparents came to Mount Pulaski township several years before the city was founded in 1836. After attending school in his home su rroundings, he devoted his time to farming. In Mount Pulaski, on Feb. 5, 1880, he married Miss Lemyra Jane Mier, a daughter of George and Rebecca Laughlin Mier, who were also pioneer settlers in this area. Following the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Buckles started housekeeping in the home where he was born. They then located in Lake Fork, where he was postmaster and merchant. After farming west of Mount Pulaski for a number of years, they moved into the city, where he was identified with the business interests for a time. They also lived in Kenney and Decatur before retiring and locating at the present family home. His wife preceded him in death Dec. 11, 1932. During the past two years part of his home has been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tyler and family. Mr. Buckles was a member of the Christian Church. A reader of the Chicago Tribune for a long period of time, he made daily trips of eight blocks to the post office to get his paper and other mail, as long as his health would permit. Being quite a reader, he kept up to the minute with the news of the day, and although advanced in years, took much interest in the big league baseball news. Decedent is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Charles Kemmer and Mrs. Zolla Hukill of Mount Pulaski; two sons, Aaron Buckles, Webster City, Iowa, and Orville D. Buckles, Evanston; ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Peter W. Buckles, Mount Pulaski; and a sister, Mrs. Martha Scroggin, Webster, Mo. The remains were removed to the Schahl Funeral Home, where funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, conducted Rev. Carroll Langston, pastor of the Christian Church. Appropriate piano music was rendered by Mrs. Frank E. Turley. There were many beautiful floral tributes. Burial was in the Mount Pulaski Cemetery. The pallbearers were Amos Tyler, M. J. Schafer, Edward Michel, Austin Schaffenacker, Ennis Downing, and George Underhill.