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From: "Fern" <>
Subject: Re: [KIRTLEY] Buford Website Up-date 8-14--07
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:33:52 -0600
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Good Morning Anne,

Thanks for writing. Love getting mail.

Thank you for the Obit for Gen. Abe. I already had it but may I post it to
my Website and give your name as the contributor ?? Hopefully this might
encourage other people to share their information with me. Sadly, my
contributors are a bit scarce right now and I could use a little help to
make my Website worth going to. My book covers Abraham and Amanda's life
thoroughly and yes his life was so very sad after the death of his son and
then Amanda and then his brother's predicament. The lives of many of his
siblings were just as sad and they too are in the book. Knowing his brother
Thomas' story and the final act of rebellion makes me wonder if I, in his
shoes, wouldn't have been driven to do the same thing. The actions of Judge
Elliott was in-excusable and damning to Tom and his sister. No one from the
Judges family attended his funeral which to me - told me a great deal about
the Judge. I have yet to find Tom and Mary's grave site in Henry County,
KY. I have a feeling it is located on the ill fated land they thought they
owned.

Thanks again for writing and sending the Obit.

Fern


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Kruszka" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [KIRTLEY] Buford Website Up-date 8-14--07


> You aren't alone. Can't tell you how I identify with that phrase. I love
> your cemetery photos. I have been trying to get photos of all my family
> graves in Lexington, Kentucky Cemetery, and Abraham Buford is on my list.
> It isn't easy for someone who lives in Michigan and is preparing a move to
> Tennessee. I think I'll be about an hour of Celina, TN. I have an
> obituary
> for Abraham Buford. It's a sad story.
>
> This is from the Macon (GA) Weekly Telegraph, June 13, 1884, pg 1.
> [accessed
> through GenealogyBank.com]
>
> "GENERAL ABE BUFORD.
>
> The Famous Horse Racer and Cavalryman Commits Suicide
>
> [Telegraphed to the Associate Press]
>
> Indianapolis, Indiana, June 9. - General Abe Buford, of Kentucky,
> committed
> suicide at the residence of his nephew, Benj. E. Buford, in Danville,
> Indiana, this morning. General Buford came to Danville Wednesday last to
> visit relatives and attend the races. This week he seemed much depressed,
> which was visibly increased after reading an article in a newspaper giving
> an account of the Buford family, written in connection with the return of
> Tom Buford to the Anchorage Asylum in Kentucky, a physical and financial
> wreck. The general's fortune had also been swept away. He retired to his
> room just after breakfast this morning, and had been there but a short
> time
> when the report of a revolver was heard, and he was found in a dying
> condition, having shot himself in the head. He died without a struggle.
> Two
> statements were found, one dated this morning, saying financial
> misfortunes,
> the death of his family, and the troubles of his brother, Tom Buford, who
> killed Judge Elliot, were the causes of the act. His remains will be sent
> to
> Lexington as requested by him."
>
> I saved it also as a .jpg image.
>
> Anne
> Anne (Percival) Kruszka
>
> Researching Bowman, Chinn, Davidson, Kettler, Kirtley, Klijewski, Knost,
> Kruszka, Maitland, Oliphant, Percival, Synos, Zalot & Zimmeth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On
> Behalf Of Fern
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:31 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [KIRTLEY] Buford Website Up-date 8-14--07
>
> Thanks Anne - that phrase suites me to a tee.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Kruszka" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [KIRTLEY] Buford Website Up-date 8-14--07
>
>
>> Fern,
>>
>> Love this line "Remember that every morning is the dawn of a brand new
>> error." Every family historian needs that sense of humor.
>>
>>
>> Anne (Percival) Kruszka
>> Researching Bowman, Chinn, Davidson, Kettler, Kirtley, Klijewski, Knost,
>> Kruszka, Maitland, Oliphant, Percival, Synos, Zalot & Zimmeth
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Fern
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:02 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [KIRTLEY] Buford Website Up-date 8-14--07
>>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> Summer is winding down and I, for one, will be happy when the Fall
>> weather
>> arrives. It has been a few years since Grand Junction, Colorado (my
>> home)
>> has seen temps as high as they have been and for such a prolonged period
>> of
>> time.
>> Thank goodness for AC's.........
>>
>> I have just completed another up-date to my Buford Website.
>>
>> www.bufordfamilies.com A Kirtley Will has been posted
>>
>> Come on by and take a look !!
>>
>> My best wishes to all, Fern K. Buford Walker
>>
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