This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buckbee, Birdsley, Blaisdell, Blasdell, Burns, Mattoon, Meighan, Merrell, Snyder, Vickery Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zh.2ADE/1905 Message Board Post: >From the Whiteside Sentinel (Morrison, Illinois), Thursday, 21 Feb 1901. BUCKBEE -- At her home in Fenton, Whiteside county, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 16, 1901, Mrs. Samuel Buckbee, aged 73 years, 6 months and 15 days. Prudence Vickery was born at Sand Lake, New York, July 1, 1827. She was married in 1843 to Samuel Buckbee, who died in 1870. Four children were born to this union, – two of whom are still living, Mrs. Althana Blaisdell, who resides near Clark, S. D., and Mrs. Harriet Birdsley of Fenton. One child, a son, died in infancy, and a daughter, Mrs. H. H. Snyder, died about twenty-one years ago, leaving two small children to the care of their grandmother and their father, who has always made his home with Mrs. Buckbee since the death of his wife. She gave the children all the care of a loving mother until they were settled in homes of their own. Harry was married to Miss Minnie Burns in 1898 and Emma was married to George Meighan in 1899. They both reside in Fenton. Besides these relatives she leaves one brother, Caleb Vickery of Clark, S. D., and one sister, Mrs. Thamer Mattoon of Durand, this state. She was an affectionate loving mother and grandmother, a kind! good neighbor and friend to everyone, a noble christian woman who never shirked a duty or thought anything that lay in her power to do was of too much trouble to serve a friend or neighbor. Her only thought was for others. She left the comforting assurance that she trusted in Jesus and was ready and willing to go. The funeral was held in the U. B. church in Fenton, Rev. Mary Merrell officiating. All that was mortal of “Aunt Prudy” was tenderly laid to rest by the side of her husband in the New Lebanon cemetery, one mile west of Fenton.