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of John R. and R. P. Buckman, and the grandfather of Will and 

 Charles, favorably known as the Buckman Brothers. During 

 the Civil war the farm of John R. and R. P. Buckman, who were 

 strong Southern sympathizers, was raided and every serviceable 

 horse on the farm was confiscated. The mare. Hunter, on ac- 

 count of disabilities, was deemed of no value as a cavalry mount 

 and was left. From the produce of this mare the present great 

 horses on the Buckman farm descended. 



The writer has been made familiar with the pedigree of the 

 good mare. Miss Cliff 5524, owned by Wallace Estill & Son of 

 Estill, Howard county. This mare is also by Rex McDonald 

 833, and on her maternal side is a descendant of a mare called 

 Blue Bird, ridden to Missouri from Kentucky as a two-year-old by 

 J. H. Estill with bedclothes and a surcingle as a saddle. This was 

 in the early fifties. This mare was by the thoroughbred. Wood- 

 pecker. In 1859 Mr. J. H. Estill sold all his personal property that 

 he might go south to save his negroes, he, like many of the Mis- 

 souri farmers of that day, being an extensive slave owner. Pre- 

 vious to this sale Blue Bird had been bred to a horse known as 

 Green Mountain Morgan, owned near Paris, and produced a 

 chestnut filly called Emma that Mr. Wallace Estill's father, 

 J. R. Estill, paid $200 for at the sale as a two-year-old. When the 

 Civil war came on every precaution was taken to save this mare 

 from the depredations of the bushwhackers. She had been 

 bred to a horse called Cockspur, owned by Tom Moss of Fay- 

 ette, and brought here from Kentucky by Vol Paine. Cock- 

 spur was said to be out of the dam of Edwin Forrest 1901, which 

 horse, by the way, passed the better part of his life near Keokuk, 

 Iowa, and was of material assistance in bringing the saddle 

 horses of Northeast Missouri up to their present high standing. 

 From Cockspur Emma produced a black mare called Fancy and 

 was rebred to Cockspur, this time producing a bay colt called 

 Prince. While Emma was yet suckling Prinfce, Mrs. J. R. Estill 

 was riding her one day to the home of a sick neighbor. A bunch 

 of bushwhackers met Mrs. Estill, took possession of the mare, 

 and after turning the colt into a wheat field one of the number 

 rode the mare off and she was never again seen by her owners. 

 Her foals. Fancy and the horse colt, were left to the Estills, and 

 the children of that family used her in learning to ride. She is 

 said to have been a wonderful fine saddle mare and her manners 

 were near perfect. She was bred several times to Ashland Den- 

 mark and produced, among other foals, the black mare, Grace, 



