LETTER: Help me find the rightful owner?

To All USU Professors:

Several years ago I sent a box of genealogy materials to a USU professor. In the box were a 19th-century Bible, several letters, newspaper clippings, baptism certificates, a beautiful wedding photo and even a Civil War pension certificate. I sent the box to the USU professor because we both believed his family may be descendants of the prominent name in the Bible, Henry Buckwalter from New York.

Imagine my dismay when I today received an email from the great-great-great grandson of Henry Buckwalter, Ross Buckwalter, who learned through FamilySearch.org that I had the box of materials. He naturally is eager to see this family history and is willing to drive to Logan in order to see the contents of the box. Imagine my dismay also that I had to inform him I had sent the materials on to a USU professor after vainly seeking contact with the Buckwalter family.

My plea: If you are the professor who received this box of family history. Would you please contact Ross Buckwalter at rossmbuck@gmail.com, or contact me at gtsmith@viterbo.edu. There is a Buckwalter family out there in Pennsylvania eager to see the Bible, and perhaps they will recognize the bride in the photograph.

Thank you.

– Grant T. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of English
Viterbo University