SEVENTH GENERATION

73. Col. Giddings Judson BUCK ⁽¹⁾⁽²²⁾⁽²³⁾⁽²⁴⁾⁽²⁵⁾ (photo) graduated in 1858 in Union College, Union County, Kentucky.⁽²⁴⁾

He also was an instructor at Union College before he graduated.

He was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽¹⁰⁾

Giddings Buck became the first president of Salado College, Salado Springs, Texas, in 1860. When the Civil War began, he enlisted in the 13th Texas Cavalry of the CSA. After the war, he returned to Texas and began to study law. He lived three miles south of Waco. The 1870 census gives his occupation as "Lawyer". In 1881, he established the Gate City, a Laredo newspaper. He later wrote for various Texas newspapers including the Waco Examiner, San Antonio Express and the Houston Chronicle. He was the author of "The Free Christian" a book which he described as "the result of sixty years of study and observation and written with the object of serving God and mankind". This five hundred and eighty page book, published in 1906, addressed conflicts between science and religion and cost $2.18 in 1907.

Salado College was unusual in that it operated for twenty four years with tuition as its sole source of income. In its first year, 1860, Salado College had only seventy-five students but attendance increased to 124 the next year. Average attendance was about 250 students between 1866 to 1872. In 1885, the college property was turned over to the Salado public school system.

He was married to Mary Cottingham HALBERT (daughter of Isaac Newton HALBERT and Ermina Slater WILLSON) on Jul 3 1865 in Texas.⁽²⁶⁾ Mary Cottingham HALBERT⁽¹⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽¹⁰⁾ Col. Giddings Judson BUCK and Mary Cottingham HALBERT had the following children:

+255 i. Ermine Field BUCK.
256 ii. Miriam O. BUCK⁽¹⁾ received a degree in Ph. B. in Waco University, Waco, Texas.⁽²⁴⁾ She was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽²⁴⁾

In addition to her degrees from Waco University, Miriam Buck did post graduate work at Yale, the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. She first taught school at Pleasanton, Texas with her father. She also taught at Stranger, Reagan and Temple before returning to Baylor where she taught English for twenty-one years. In 1921, she joined the faculty of Waco Academy.

+257 iii. Raymond Halbert BUCK.
258 iv. Mary Davidge BUCK⁽¹⁾ was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽¹⁰⁾
259 v. Giddings Judson BUCK Jr.⁽¹⁾ was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽¹⁰⁾
+260 vi. Oliver Halbert BUCK.
261 vii. Nellie Faulkner BUCK⁽¹⁾⁽²⁴⁾ graduated in 1903 in Baylor University.⁽²⁴⁾ She was buried in Oakwood Cemetary, McLennan County, Texas.⁽²⁴⁾

After graduation from Baylor, Nellie Buck attended graduate school at Yale University. In 1904, she returned to Waco and taught her first student -- a young girl who could not attend the Waco public schools because she lived outside the city limits. Later, she founded Waco Academy which eventually had six teachers and sixty students. From 1904 to 1921 she taught at ther home on South Ninth Street. She then moved the school to North Seventeenth Street.

+262 viii. Harrison D. BUCK.

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