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Buckner Orphan's Home
1900 Census
Dr. Robert C. Buckner opened the Orphan's Home with a rented three-room
cottage with two acres of land in Dallas on December 2, 1879 with only three children.
John Cruse from McKinney
Alice Cruse from McKinney
John Jones from Ellis County
In September 1880, Buckner purchased the permanent site, a forty-four-acre tract
in east Dallas, priced at seventeen dollars an acre. Members of the board knelt in a log
cabin on the property two days later and dedicated the home. Six children were moved to
a new residence on the site in 1881. The home still operated at this location in 1889.
. . . In 1914 Buckner asked the Baptist General Convention of Texas to take over
operation in order to assure its future. He died on April 9, 1919, still serving as general
manager. When leadership was passed to his two sons, there were around 600 children in
the home. The two new leaders launched one of the largest building campaigns in
Buckner's history to modernize and update the campus. In the next 20 years a completely
new campus emerged--including 20 fire-proof buildings and paved streets. The home's
junior and senior high schools were upgraded and accredited in the 1920s. Forty years
later the children began attending public schools in the community.2
In the Dallas County 1900 Census there are 295 children and caretakers listed.County of Dallas, State of Texas
1900 Census Abstract
Precinct #3E.D. 147
pg 40A-42B
(between E.D. 134 and 135
Recorded 6 June - 8 June, 1900
by Robert C. BucknerNARA Series T-623
Roll #1626' R.C. Buckner's Life of Faith and Works by J.B. Cranfill and J.L. Walker, Buckner Orphan's Home,
1915, Dallas, Texas, pg 88.
2 The New Handbook of Texas by the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, 1996, Austin, Texas,
pg 807.1996
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