Life Cool Picture My Sister Sent Me

**gblowfish** · 01-06-2015, 04:49 PM

My Sis in St. Louis is big into the genealogy thing. She has us traced back to amoebas basically. Anyway, she was trading pictures with somebody in Buckner, MO, a little town east of Independence, south of Ft. Osage in Jackson County. My dad's side of the family started farming there around the Civil War, and the farm was sold to housing developers in the 1980's. This picture is of the Buckner, MO football team in 1925, in front of the Buckner Bank. My great uncle John and Clarence are in the front row. Clarence is the guy holding a football on the right side of the picture, and John is seated to left of him (right of him as you view the picture).

My Uncle John was a cab driver in Independence for 40 years. He lived in the house across the street from me when I grew up. He went to John Knox Village in the 1980s and passed away at around 90 years old. Clarence lived in Buckner till he died in his 80s.

My grandfather James (my dad's dad) was a left handed pitcher for Buckner's city baseball team. He pitched against the Kansas City Streetcar Company around 1926 and threw a complete game shut out. They offered him a job to come to the big city and pitch for their team. So he left the farm, and became a streetcar conductor - later a bus driver, and worked for the now KC ATA for 50 years. He never had a single driving accident. When he retired from the KC ATA his badge number was "2." "1" belongs to the Mayor of KC. He died in the 1970s.

01-06-2015, 04:49 PM	Topic Starter
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $17586178 VARSITY	Cool Picture My Sister Sent Me My Sis in St. Louis is big into the genealogy thing. She has us traced back to amoebas basically. Anyway, she was trading pictures with somebody in Buckner, MO, a little town east of Independence, south of Ft. Osage in Jackson County. My dad's side of the family started farming there around the Civil War, and the farm was sold to housing developers in the 1980's. This picture is of the Buckner, MO football team in 1925, in front of the Buckner Bank. My great uncle John and Clarence are in the front row. Clarence is the guy holding a football on the right side of the picture, and John is seated to left of him (right of him as you view the picture). My Uncle John was a cab driver in Independence for 40 years. He lived in the house across the street from me when I grew up. He went to John Knox Village in the 1980s and passed away at around 90 years old. Clarence lived in Buckner till he died in his 80s. My grandfather James (my dad's dad) was a left handed pitcher for Buckner's city baseball team. He pitched against the Kansas City Streetcar Company around 1926 and threw a complete game shut out. They offered him a job to come to the big city and pitch for their team. So he left the farm, and became a streetcar conductor - later a bus driver, and worked for the now KC ATA for 50 years. He never had a single driving accident. When he retired from the KC ATA his badge number was "2." "1" belongs to the Mayor of KC. He died in the 1970s.
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