March 19, 1889
Horace Buckner, the well known colored man who lives at the south end of Halcyon Lake was formerly a slave of Gov. Buckner in St. Louis Mo. Shortly before the war his family consisted of his wife and two little daughters, Phebe and Maggie. Before Maggie was four years old she was taken from her home and sold to a resident of another state, her parents of course having no idea of where she was. By the breaking out of the war, the family was disbanded and the last that Horace heard of his wife and remaining child was that they were in a camp of the Union army. Mr. B. fell in with Col. Benj. Smith by whom he was employed as a servant and finally accompanied the Colonel to Pine Plains. Some four or five years since, Horace caused letters to be written to clergymen in St. Louis, making inquiries concerning his
family. This resulted in his getting track of his daughter Maggie a few months ago, she being the wife of a colored man named Powell, who had married her in the state of Illinois, where she was bound out as a servant. She will be in this village Friday. There will be a joyful meeting when Horace and his daughter see each other for the first time in 27 years. He hopes to find the other daughter and her mother, if alive, and all wish him realization of that hope.