TULARE COUNTY BUCKMANS BY GUY V. BUCKMAN SR.
The story of the present Tulare County Buckmans properly starts with Clement Everman Buckman, the head of the first family in Tulare County and the establisher of the Old Homestead along Deep Creek. He was born in what was then the wilderness of Kentucky in the year 1821. Of Irish descent, his forebears were part of that prevalent people of the times, hearty pioneers all, who were forever moving west in the search for lands and opportunity. These people were the trail blazers of the western movement and their efforts in the establishment of a primitive civilization is the very foundation of the western United States of today.
The unsettled conditions of those early Kentucky days make it difficult to trace lineage as no permanent home was maintained, the people moving from place to place often on account of floods, droughts, or Indian raids. We do know, however, that there were many Buckmans around Uniontown, Kentucky, and that even today the name is as common there as Jones is in a city directory. For our own purpose we have an inevitable record of pioneer activities starting from Clement Everman Buckman.
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