242. William Calmes BUCK II
(1)(33)
(34)
(35) was Baptist.
W. C. Buck was a charter member of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church of Decatur,
Alabama.
He was buried in Florence, Alabama.(35)
The second of a long and growing line of Bucks to bear the distinguished name
of William Calmes. He did it well.
-- Hubert Nelson Buck, 1965
W. C. Buck moved to the New Decatur, Alabama area about 1888 from Columbus, Georgia.
He lived there about eight years and was a prominent businessman and city councilman.
He was an active member of the Missionary Baptist church.
W.C. Buck, and his wife, Mattie Clardy Buck were founding members of the First
Baptist Church of New Decatur, Alabama. This church was organized on October
3, 1889 with fourteen members. Elder John Speer was the first pastor. W. C.
Buck was the clerk. J. J. Sawyers and A. M. Lee were deacons.
He was active in the 16th Avenue Baptist Church of Decatur, Alabama where he
was Deacon and Recording Secretary.
He was primarily a building contractor but at times he owned a sawmill and lumberyard.
He may have been a partner with Charley Roundtree in some of these businesses.
He owned quite a bit of property including various lots in east Decatur, Alabama.
The last five years of his life, he lived in Florence, Alabama where he was a
building contractor at the time of his death.
Sometime before he died, knowing that he had cancer, he purchased an annuity
for his wife, Mattie Clardy Buck, from Metropolitan Life. This was her income
during the depression.
When my father was about six years old, his grandfather visited them in Decatur,
Alabama. He remembers watching his grandfather shave with a straight razor when
his grandfather noticed a wart on my dad's hand. "What's that, boy?"
his grandfather said. "A wart", replied my dad. "Let me see
it". When my dad extended his hand, his grandfather used his straight razor
to slice the wart off before my dad knew what was happening. It never grew back.
-- G. S. Buck, Jr.
He was married to Martha Elizabeth CLARDY (daughter of
William CLARDY and Sarah W. KELLY) on Dec 1 1881 in Russell
County, Alabama.(36) Martha Elizabeth
Clardy's name is given as Mattie Clarida. Marriage performed by Charles Willis
Buck, Sr., father of the groom. William Calmes BUCK II and
Martha Elizabeth CLARDY had the following children:
+480 i.
Carlisle Lamar BUCK.
+481 ii.
Hubert Nelson BUCK.
482 iii.
William Calmes BUCK III(1) was buried
in Gerard Cementary, Phenix City, Alabama.
483 iv.
Inez BUCK(1).
+484 v.
Helen Dooley BUCK.
+485 vi.
Lois BUCK.
+486 vii.
Murray Sandlin BUCK.
+487 viii.
Charles Clardy BUCK.
488 ix.
David Edgar BUCK.
489 x.
unnamed infant 1 BUCK(1) was buried
in Decatur, Alabama.
490 xi.
unnamed infant 2 BUCK(1) was buried
in Decatur, Alabama.
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