At the young and naive age of 17, Lucille said yes, so she and Buddy took off to Bristol, Tennessee from Tazewell, Virginia to get married. Aunt Lillian, Mom’s sister, and her husband, my Uncle Vince Jordan, went with them as witnesses to sign the Marriage Certificate in the County of Sullivan. That’s just what our people did back then. Nothing fancy; the families had no money to afford a large wedding.

Nannie Lucille Davis married Larkin Watson Buckland, Jr. (the Railroader) on September 11, 1938.

Buddy, as dad was lovingly known, was born October 8, 1915 in Bluefield, WV to Larkin Watson Buckland, Sr. Find-a-Grave # 17557436 & Mary Jane Davidson. Find-a-Grave # 17557458 He passed away on November 6, 1993 from congestive heart failure in St. Lukes Hospital, Bluefield, WV at the age of 78. He is buried at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, VA. Find-a-Grave # 32072531

Lucille was born on September 3, 1921 in Tazewell, VA to Asa C. Davis & Altha Rudolph Brooks. She passed away from kidney disease on January 25, 2017 in FLEMING ISLAND, FL at the age of 95. She is buried along side her husband at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, VA. Find-a-Grave # 175758420

Buddy and Lucille were the parents of four children, Ellis, Lera Gail, Larry Charles, Sherry Lynn (The Railroader’s Daughter)

Ellis Haynes Buckland was born July 1, 1939 in N. Tazewell, VA. He married Susan Floyd Perdue in 1961. Ellis passed away from cancer on July 8, 2021 at the age of 82, and my brother was buried with honors at Fort Jackson National Cemetery in Columbia, South Carolina. Find-a-Grave # 232637308