Nelle Purnell was born on 14. Dec. 1887 at Mahomet, Champaign County, Illinois. She was the daughter of
Samuel Jasper Purnell and
Sarah Scott. Nelle Purnell married
Russell Cleveland Buckles, son of
William Marion Buckles and
Hannah Ann Collins, on 27. Feb. 1907 at Mahomet, Champaign County, Illinois.
Nelle Purnell and
Russell Cleveland Buckles appeared on the census of 5. Jan. 1920 at Mahomet, Champaign County, Illinois. Nelle Purnell died on 20. Sep. 1980 at Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, at age 92. She was buried on 24. Sep. 1980 at Riverside Cemetery, Troy, Miami County, Ohio. Notes for NELLE PURNELL:
NELL PURNELL BUCKLES
MAHOMET--- Nell Purnell Buckles, 93, of Dayton, Ohio, formerly of the Mahomet, Ohio area, died September 20, 1980 at a Dayton hospital.
Funeral services were held in Troy, Ohio.
She was born December 14, 1887, at Mahomet, a daughter of S.J. and Sarah Scott Purnell. She married Russell C. Buckles, February 27, 1907. He died August 1, 1973.
Survivors include three sons Ralph Buckles of Long Beach, California, Paul Buckles of Taxco, Mexico, and Russell Buckles of Albuquerque, New Mexico; one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Reha) Brammer of Dayton, Ohio; nine grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren, one great-great-granddaughter, and two nieces, Isabelle S. Purnell of Mahomet and Mrs. Robert J. Jones of Chicago, Illinois.
She was preceded in death by a son, a brother, a half-brother and a half-sister.
Mrs. Buckles resided in Mahomet, where her husband was a station agent for the Big Four Railroad, until 1927. She later moved to Veedersburg, Indiana, and to Troy, Ohio. Most recently, she lived with her daughter in Dayton, Ohio.