Horace Buie
Interment Source:
Hay, Fred M. Cemetery Interments in Corpus Christi and Surrounding area.
Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales
- Reference item
Horace Buie married Mamie Barnard on September 1, 1879. Died before May 14, 1880
Source: Nueces County Marriage Records Vol. E
Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell - Biographical information about family
HORACE BUIE
And Family
Horace Buie came to he Corpus Christi area sometime in the late 1870s. Horace married Mary Jane "Mamie" Barnard, the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. James R. Barnard, on September 1, 1879 (Source: Nueces County Marriage Records, vol. E, p. 120) in the presence of Rev. James Ripley Jacobs, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. The marriage was cut short by the death of Horace within a few months as the probate records indicate that his widow sought appointment to administer his estate on May 14, 1880—only about eight months after their wedding.
The young widow is listed in the 1880 census of Nueces County with her family and already widowed, but with child. Young Mary J. Buie , born in February of 1861 (1900 Federal census—Bexar County, Texas, E. D. 97, sheet 9), was only about 19 years old and pregnant when her husband died. The young girl born to her in June of 1880 (1900 Federal Census -- Bexar County, Texas, E. D. 97, sheet 9) was named Ethel Cecile Buie. The name was pronounced "Bowie" and was often misspelled in that form in articles referring to the family in later years. The 1900 census indicates that little Ethel's father was from Mississippi. This is further confirmed by the report of his mother's death in the Corpus Christi paper. Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Buie died in New Orleans on April 11, 1884. Her obituary (Corpus Christi Caller, April 13, 1884, p. 5, col. 3) notes that she was survived by a son, Henry T. Buie, who was with her at the time of her death. She also left a "daughter-in-law, Mrs. Horace Buie" whom she had visited about a year prior to her death. Mrs. Buie claimed Oxford, Mississippi as her home even though she had died in New Orleans.
As noted above, Mary Jane Buie and her daughter Ethel Cecile moved to San Antonio, but they kept contact with their family and friends throughout south Texas. In 1906 Ethel Cecile Buie married Edward Charles Monday at the home of her aunt and uncle—Col. Calvin G. Brewster and Lydia Brewster nee Barnard. Mr. Monday was of Mexico City at that time as he was a mining operator in Mexico. In subsequent years the couple lived in Eagle Pass while Mr. Monday continued to be a silver mine manager (1920 Federal Census -- Maverick County, Texas, E. D. 141, sheet 8) prior to moving to San Antonio to be near Ethel's mother. However, the couple had no children. Ethel who had lost her father even before her birth, lost bother husband and mother in the final months of 1929. On October 31, 1929 Mrs. Mary Jane Buie died at her home, 1718 San Pedro Avenue, at 9:40 p.m., survived by her daughter as well as her own three sisters—Mrs. Calvin G. (Lydia Barnard) Brewster, Mrs. Stanley J. (Georgia Barnard) Welch, and Mrs. (Carrie Barnard) DeMilt of New Orleans (obituary of Mrs. Buie in San Antonio Light, November 2, 1929, p. 8, col. 1). Only a few months later while Edward was trying to recover from a long illness, he died in Corpus Christi. Articles on his death report that he was a native of Southampton, England, who had resided in San Antonio for the last years and that he died at the Spohn Sanitarium. He had suffered a lingering illness for about one year and been at the sanitarium for a week prior to his death. He was survived by sisters in England and Ethel his widow. His funeral service also took place from 1718 San Pedro Avenue in San Antonio as had his mother-in-law's. His remains were shipped there on the Missouri Pacific train (Corpus Christi Times, December 23, 1929, p. 1, col. 6 and Corpus Christi Caller, December 24, 1929, p. 2, col. 3).
Ethel lived almost another 20 years and died in San Antonio where in the last years she had resided at the St. Anthony Hotel. Her maternal aunts, Carrie DeMilt and Georgia Welch survived their niece, but Ethel had no descendents. While Horace lies in Old Bayview Cemetery, his wife and daughter and son-in-law are buried next to one another in Mission Park Cemetery in San Antonio. May they all rest in peace.
Sources identified in article
Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell
Transcription by: Geraldine D. McGloin, Nueces County Historical Commission