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Show CAREER CLOSED OP DESCENDANT OF I WASHINGTON AND BUCKLEY FAMILIES Special to The Tribune. SPOKANE. "Wash.. Jan. 9. When the clods of earth fell upon the casket, containing con-taining the body of Miss Sarah Is. Buckley. Buck-ley. S6 years of ago. who died at tho home of her niece, Mathilda Buckley. 717 East. Ermina avenue, Spokane, there closed the earthly career of a descendant of the Buckley and Washington families of tho revolutionary days. Rev. Dr. Henry I. Rnsmus, pastor of tho First Methodist Episcopal church, read the funeral service, the interment taking place In Fnlrmount cemetery. Miss Buckley was the last of a family of ten children. Tier great grandfather was a cousin of George Washington. She was born In Pcnnss'lvania and was a rcs-ident rcs-ident of Missouri when the war between the states began, afterward returning to her native state. She came lo Spokane Spo-kane from Pearl City. 111., a year ago, and before that passed several years al Burlington. Dos Moines and other cities In Iowa. Tho family tree is given in documents found among her effects. A chair belonging to a. set of furniture, which Is held by museums, was one of the many relics left by Miss Buckley. It is of a peculiar design and carved on the back art; the Initials. J. R.. standing stand-ing for John Buckley, and tho dale 16S0. The chairs were made by hand In England, Eng-land, according to traditions In the Buckley family. Later In the history of the family this ono fell to the lot of the Buckleys and one at least, went to the father of his country. The Buckleys were Quakers and some documents of parchment and sheepskin were found among other relics. One of these is a marriage certificate, dated 1747. II. is a. complete report of the mar-rlagc mar-rlagc of John Buckley, the son of Adam Buckley, to Miss Hannah Clomcnson In a Quaker church of Pennsylvania. The certificate Is neatly written and gives the year and the good standing of the persons to be united in marriage. It then tells of the pledges made by the couple and that John took Hannah by the hand In the presence of the minister while tho CMrcmoiiy was in progress. Then followed a list of thirty-two names, signed as evidence that the persons hud witnessed tho ceremony. Another document. Is a Quaker deed under tho rule of John Thomas Penn, written and printed on a piece of sheepskin. sheep-skin. It is complete in every particular and cxplalnn that the holder has purchased pur-chased 107 acres of land on the Delaware of the Penn brothers, at one penny an acre. There Is some writing on the parchment which Is evidently an explanation expla-nation of the deed, but It I3 not decipherable. |