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Note: Source: Vincennes Morning Commercial April 29, 1920 Page 8
BOY BREAKS LEG ON RIDING PLOW
Ernest Buckles, the 14 year old son of Willis Buckles, suffered a badly broken leg yesterday afternoon when he slipped from the seat of a riding plow he was operating and caught his right foot in a wheel.
Ernest was working with his uncle, Ozro Buckles and was riding the plow from one field to another. The accident had no sooner happened than Ozro stopped the team, but too late to save the boy from a broken leg - Bicknell News
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Ernest and Helen lived on S. Main Street in Bicknell, IN during the 1940s and 50s and moved to a larger spread on Old Wheatland Road (that had a cool railroad track in the very back of their property) outside of Vincennes in the early 1960s. My mother, Patty Buckles, and I lived with them from 1955-57 while my dad was in the Air Force.
Ernest was a supervisor for Knox Consolidated Coal Corp. when they issued his social security card on 30 Nov 1936. Their address then was RR 1, Sandborn, IN. It's interesting that the town was spelled Sanborn on the SS card, and all data was hand written. After he retired from the mine around 1970 he and Helen (Hi, as she was known) sold the house on Old Wheatland Road and moved across from Vincennes University to a small housing complex with a pond and individual docks just off each back porch. Ernest took a part-time job with the parks dept. in grounds maintenance, but years of breathing coal dust was killing him and he didn't get to enjoy retirement very long.
Ern, as I called him, taught me how to fish, fly kites, eat vegetables while standing in the garden, and rabbit hunt. I used to spend a part of my boyhood summer vacation with them every year, sometimes riding the train from St. Louis to Vincennes and back. I cannot place a price on the memories I have from time spent with them. TLE
Notes about Vincennes: The oldest city in Indiana, Vincennes was founded as a French fur trading outpost in 1732. Vincennes was home to Fort Sackville, site of the western-most battle of the Revolutionary War. The George Rogers Clark Memorial, which was built on the banks of the Wabash River in Vincennes, is the largest monument of its type outside of Washington D.C.
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