Eighth Generation (Continued) Family of John Buckalew (693) & Temperance D. Parks
1513. Female Buckalew. Born in 1815/1820 in SC. Female died before 1840; she was 25.
1514. Permelia S. Buckalew. Born in 1820 in Lancaster Co., SC. Permelia S. died in 1877; she was 57.
Living 1870 in Washington Co., TX, in household of her nephew, William P. Buckalew.
1515. Female Buckalew. Born in 1820/1825.
Living 1840 in Butler Co., AL.
1516. Temperance Buckalew. Born about 1826 in Lancaster Co., SC.
Living 1850 in Butler Co., AL
Temperance must have been one of the prettiest 18-year old young ladies in Butler Co, AL, when John Henry Watts went to her home and obtained from John and Temperance Buckalew permission to marry their daughter. When, in March of 1843, John Henry returned to the Buckalew home, he brought with him two friends, Wilson Murphy and Sterling Parker, explaining he had obtained the marriage license from the county clerk, and that Parker was a Justice of the Peace. The ceremony was performed in the Buckalew home.
Some time thereafter someone discovered that a marriage license had never been issued and that Parker wasn't a JP. The matter ended up in the Alabama Supreme Court.
Without knowing all the details, we know that Temperance and John Watts had a son, William P., born five years after the Supreme Court case. Whether the wedding was court-ordered or of the shotgun variety we do not know.
John Henry did disappear some time later (he could have died), Temperance and William moved back in with John and Temperance Buckalew, and a very special warm and close relationship developed thereafter between grandfather John Buckalew and grandson William Watts.
1844 (June), Butler Co., AL, Alabama Supreme Court Records: The State VS Murphy on points referred by Circuit Court of Butler. Indictment charges that the defendent, with other persons, did on 4 February 1843 conspire wicked maliciously etc. to seduce from her virtue, one Temperance BuckAlOw, a young maiden lady; and to assist and enable John Henry Watts to effect a pretended marriage with said Temperance Buckalow and to make John Buckalow and Temperance Buckalow, Sen. (Father and Mother of said Temperance) believe it to be legal; and thereby to enable said John Henry Watts carnally to know her, without legal matrimony between them...Indictment further charges that J.H. Watts, Wilson Murphy and the other conspirators afterwards on 24 March 1843 repaired to the house of the father and mother and falsely represented to them and their daughter, that said J. H. Watts had obtained a license from Clerk of County Court of kButler, giving authority to any one legally authorized to celebrate rites of matrimony to marry them. That Sterling B. LParker (one of the conspirators) represented himself to being a J.P. of Butler Co.; and he did then and there unlawfully marry J. H. Watts and Temperance Buckalow.
Temperance married John Henry Watts. Born about 1792 in SC.
1860, 28 July; Butler Co., AL; Census: As Busklough, living next door to his father in Butler Springs.
Living 1900 in Butler Co., AL.
On 14 January 1860 when John J. was 22, he married Mrs. Elizabeth A. Jones, in Butler Co., AL. Born about 1837.
1519. MacKiniard Buckalew. Born about 1840 in TN. MacKiniard died in Post Hospital, Fort Gains, AL, on 9 November 1863; he was 23. Nickname: Mack.
Living 1862 in Butler Co., AL.
1860 Census, Butler Co.: Mac Buckaloo, 22, in household of Garrett and Elizabeth (Buckalew ?) Coswell
Mil. Svc.:: Buckalew, McKinney ("McKiniard", File # 1965), Pvt; 2nd Co. H, 1st Confederate Regt; Vol. Inf.; Army of TN, CSA: Enlisted 10 Feb 1863; died in Post Hospital 9 Nov 1863.
Another record gives his name as McKinney Buckalew and says that he died in Post Hospital, Fort Gains, AL.
On 20 January 1862 when MacKiniard was 22, he married Sophia Barganier, in Butler Co., AL.