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David Brown Tilley

• Father: Milton Popple Tilley b. 13 Jan 1882, d. 5 May 1981
• Mother: Winifred Lulu Holly b. 16 Mar 1890, d. 23 Jun 1980

• Charts: Descendants of David Holly to 5 Generations

• Birth*: David was born on 30 October 1928, Evanston, Illinois.
• He was the son of Milton Popple Tilley and Winifred Lulu Holly.
• Marriage*: David married Alice Crane Pearsall, daughter of Chester Burdick Pearsall and Roxana Mabel Pratt, on 31 August 1951.
• Death*: David died on 3 April 1989, Woodstock, VT, at age 60.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

Ferris Pearsall Tilley

• Father: David Brown Tilley b. 30 Oct 1928, d. 3 Apr 1989
• Mother: Alice Crane Pearsall b. 2 Nov 1924, d. 15 Jan 2006

• Marriage*: Ferris married Steven Phillip A. Donoso.
• She is the daughter of David Brown Tilley and Alice Crane Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

Steven Phillip A. Donoso

• Marriage*: Steven married Ferris Pearsall Tilley, daughter of David Brown Tilley and Alice Crane Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

John Bell Clayton Jr

• Marriage*: John married Millicent Pearsall, daughter of Ferris Randolph Pearsall and Jessie Millicent Davidson.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

John Bell Clayton III

• Father: John Bell Clayton Jr
• Mother: Millicent Pearsall b. 26 Sep 1908, d. 1982

• He is the son of John Bell Clayton Jr and Millicent Pearsall.
• Marriage*: John married Joan Pletch in 1955.

• Last Edited: 24 Feb 2004

Joan Pletch

• Marriage*: Joan married John Bell Clayton III, son of John Bell Clayton Jr and Millicent Pearsall, in 1955.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Bruce Clayton

• Father: John Bell Clayton III
• Mother: Joan Pletch

• He is the son of John Bell Clayton III and Joan Pletch.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

John Bell Clayton (?) IV

• Father: John Bell Clayton III
• Mother: Joan Pletch

• He is the son of John Bell Clayton III and Joan Pletch.

• Last Edited: 27 Oct 2005

Mark Clayton

• Father: John Bell Clayton III
• Mother: Joan Pletch

• He is the son of John Bell Clayton III and Joan Pletch.

• Last Edited: 27 Oct 2005

Daniel Boone Reed

• Marriage*: Daniel married Millicent Pearsall, daughter of Ferris Randolph Pearsall and Jessie Millicent Davidson.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Robert Nietzel Buck

• Birth*: Robert was born on 29 January 1914.¹
• Marriage*: Robert married Jean Pearsall, daughter of Ferris Randolph Pearsall and Jessie Millicent Davidson, on 21 February 1938.
• Death*: Robert died on 14 April 2007, Berlin, Vermont, at age 93.
• Obituary*: New York Times 20 May 2007 Obituary: Robert N. Buck Dies at 93; Was Record-Setting Aviator
  
  By MARGALIT FOX
  Published: May 20, 2007
  
  Robert N. Buck, a distinguished pilot who in the 1930s crossed the continent at record speed, flew a light plane higher than anyone had done before and photographed ancient ruins of the Yucatán from the air for the first time — all by the age of 20 — died on April 14 in Berlin, Vt. He was 93 and had continued to fly gliders into his late 80s.
  
  Robert N. Buck in 1930 before the start of a flight to Los Angeles in an attempt to break the junior cross-country record. He was 16.
  
  Mr. Buck, a resident of North Fayston, Vt., died of complications of a fall, his son, Robert O. Buck, said last week. News of the death was not made public outside Vermont until this month.
  
  A retired chief pilot of T.W.A., Mr. Buck was also a respected aviation writer. He was a particular authority on the weather, and the bumpy place where it meets aviation. During World War II, he performed research on hazardous weather of all kinds by flying gamely into it and recording what he saw, heard and felt.
  
  His book “Weather Flying,” published in 1970 and now in its fourth edition, is considered required reading for pilots. Mr. Buck’s other books include a memoir, “North Star Over My Shoulder,” published by Simon & Schuster in 2002.
  
  Long before all this, Mr. Buck was nationally known as a flying prodigy, going aloft in one-seaters, dressed in leather helmet and goggles, without even a radio to assist him. He pored over maps, steered by the stars and telephoned his parents after every flight.
  
  In April 1930, at 16, Mr. Buck became the youngest licensed pilot in the United States. Later that year, flying from Newark to Los Angeles, he broke the junior transcontinental airspeed record. On the return trip, just for sport, he broke it again. At 17, he wrote a book about it, “Burning Up the Sky,” published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1931.
  
  By the time he was 18, Mr. Buck had set 14 junior aviation records. These included the junior altitude record for light planes, which he broke in July 1930 by ascending to 15,000 feet. (In 1936, Mr. Buck, flying with a cousin, would set a world distance record for light planes, flying nonstop from Burbank, Calif., to Columbus, Ohio — 1,986 miles — in a Lambert Monocoupe.)
  
  Red-haired and apple-cheeked, the young Mr. Buck was known in the papers as “the Schoolboy Pilot.” They chronicled his every exploit, including what he carried in his plane (a Bible and a package of sandwiches made by his mother) and his life on the ground (“he likes polo, hunting, riding and milk drinking,” The New York Telegram reported in 1931).
  
  Robert Nietzel Buck was born on Jan. 29, 1914, in Elizabethport, N.J., and reared in Westfield, N.J. At 15, fired up by the well-publicized exploits of Charles A. Lindbergh, he and a friend built a glider, which Bob took to the skies before crashing from an altitude of 50 feet. He began lessons in a real plane on his 16th birthday, after his parents made certain that the Westfield airport had no looming telegraph wires nearby.
  
  On Sept. 29, 1930, Bob Buck set out to break the junior speed record for a coast-to-coast flight, which stood at 29 hours, 40 minutes. Armed with six chocolate bars and a canteen of water, he pedaled his bicycle to the airport in Newark. He did not have a driver’s license.
  
  Climbing into his open biplane, a Pitcairn Mailwing, he took off from Newark’s cinder runway. After half a dozen stops for fuel and repairs, he landed in Los Angeles, in record time, on Oct. 4. (The historical accounts of Mr. Buck’s total time in the air vary, but it was 28 hours, give or take.) On the return trip, aided by tailwinds, he shaved the time down to 23 hours, 47 minutes.
  
  Mr. Buck’s other speed records included a round trip to Havana, which he made in 13 hours, 5 minutes, in 1931. On arriving, he was greeted by adoring crowds and presented with a 12-inch cigar, which he later gave, as instructed, to President Herbert Hoover.
  
  In late 1933 and early 1934, on assignment for the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Buck and a friend, Robert Nixon, 19, spent three months roaming the Mexican jungle by air, photographing lost Mayan cities of the Yucatán. They were the youngest aerial explorers ever, the newspapers reported.
  
  Mr. Buck joined T.W.A. (then Transcontinental and Western Air) in 1937 as a co-pilot. He became a pilot in 1940 and in 1945 was named chief pilot, an administrative job. But he chafed behind a desk and was soon back in the cockpit.
  
  During the war, Mr. Buck, working on a joint project of T.W.A. and the Army, went “looking for trouble,” as he often said afterward, piloting a B-17 into snow, hail and thunderstorms all over the globe.
  
  “I was able to put my nose in any kind of weather I wanted to fly through,” he told National Public Radio in 2002. “We’d sit around, waiting until the weather was bad and then go fly through it.” The worst weather in the world, Mr. Buck found, was in the largely open stretch between New York and Kansas City, Mo.
  
  For his research, Mr. Buck was awarded the Air Medal, one of only a few civilians to receive it, in 1946.
  
  Mr. Buck is survived by his son, Robert Orion, of Waterbury Center, Vt. (A retired pilot for Delta Air Lines, the younger Mr. Buck was named, after some marital negotiation, for his father’s love of celestial navigation. His father’s first choice had been Betelgeuse, a star in Orion.) Also surviving are a daughter, Ferris Buck, of North Fayston; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
  
  Mr. Buck’s wife, the former Jean Pearsall, died in 2004. They were married, not without incident, in 1938. On the appointed day, as the bride-to-be and assembled guests waited in New Jersey, Mr. Buck found himself stuck in Kansas City, a passenger on a plane grounded by fog.
  
  The wedding took place two days later. The groom took the train.

• Last Edited: 20 May 2007

Robert Orion Buck

• Father: Robert Nietzel Buck b. 29 Jan 1914, d. 14 Apr 2007
• Mother: Jean Pearsall b. 2 Dec 1912, d. 15 Feb 2004

• Marriage*: Robert married (?) Holly.
• He is the son of Robert Nietzel Buck and Jean Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 24 Feb 2004

Ferris Buck

• Father: Robert Nietzel Buck b. 29 Jan 1914, d. 14 Apr 2007
• Mother: Jean Pearsall b. 2 Dec 1912, d. 15 Feb 2004

• Marriage*: Ferris married Frank Urbanowski.
• Marriage*: Ferris married Ned Kelley.
• She is the daughter of Robert Nietzel Buck and Jean Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 24 Feb 2004

Frank Urbanowski

• Marriage*: Frank married Ferris Buck, daughter of Robert Nietzel Buck and Jean Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

Alexandra Urbanowski

• Father: Frank Urbanowski
• Mother: Ferris Buck

• She is the daughter of Frank Urbanowski and Ferris Buck.
• Marriage*: Alexandra married John McCluggage.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Tasha Urbanowski

• Father: Frank Urbanowski
• Mother: Ferris Buck

• She is the daughter of Frank Urbanowski and Ferris Buck.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

John McCluggage

• Marriage*: John married Alexandra Urbanowski, daughter of Frank Urbanowski and Ferris Buck.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Ned Kelley

• Marriage*: Ned married Ferris Buck, daughter of Robert Nietzel Buck and Jean Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

Joan McCarthy

• Marriage*: Joan married Lindley Hoag Leggett 3rd, son of Lindley Hoag Leggett Jr and Katharine Morgan Pearsall, on 18 March 1944, Westfield, New Jersey.
• Married Name: As of 18 March 1944,her married name was Leggett.
• Death*: Joan died in October 1995, Killington, Vermont.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

John Finney Downham

• Marriage*: John married Katharine Morgan Leggett, daughter of Lindley Hoag Leggett Jr and Katharine Morgan Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Lindley Hoag Leggett 4th

• Father: Lindley Hoag Leggett 3rd b. 12 Apr 1921, d. 12 Oct 1995
• Mother: Joan McCarthy d. Oct 1995

• Marriage*: Lindley married Judy Plessel.
• He is the son of Lindley Hoag Leggett 3rd and Joan McCarthy.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

David Allen Leggett

• Father: Lindley Hoag Leggett 3rd b. 12 Apr 1921, d. 12 Oct 1995
• Mother: Joan McCarthy d. Oct 1995

• Marriage*: David married Robin Marie Koechlin, Mountainside, New Jersey.
• He is the son of Lindley Hoag Leggett 3rd and Joan McCarthy.

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

(?) Maggi

• Marriage*: (?) married John Finney Downham Jr, son of John Finney Downham and Katharine Morgan Leggett.

• Last Edited: 12 Jun 2005

Thomas West Downham

• Father: John Finney Downham
• Mother: Katharine Morgan Leggett

• He is the son of John Finney Downham and Katharine Morgan Leggett.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

John Finney Downham Jr

• Father: John Finney Downham
• Mother: Katharine Morgan Leggett

• He is the son of John Finney Downham and Katharine Morgan Leggett.
• Marriage*: John married (?) Maggi.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Robert Bruce Dickson

• Marriage*: Robert married Mary Ferris Pearsall, daughter of Chester Burdick Pearsall and Roxana Mabel Pratt.
• Birth*: Robert was born on 15 October 1919.
• Death*: Robert died on 13 January 1995, Salisbury, Addison County, Vermont, at age 75.¹

• Last Edited: 8 Jun 2005

Nancy Pearce Dickson

• Father: Robert Bruce Dickson b. 15 Oct 1919, d. 13 Jan 1995
• Mother: Mary Ferris Pearsall

• Marriage*: Nancy married Louis Giles Gaudreau.
• She is the daughter of Robert Bruce Dickson and Mary Ferris Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Holly Pearsall Dickson

• Father: Robert Bruce Dickson b. 15 Oct 1919, d. 13 Jan 1995
• Mother: Mary Ferris Pearsall

• Marriage*: Holly married James Homer Ferguson.
• She is the daughter of Robert Bruce Dickson and Mary Ferris Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Ann Thomas Dickson

• Father: Robert Bruce Dickson b. 15 Oct 1919, d. 13 Jan 1995
• Mother: Mary Ferris Pearsall

• She is the daughter of Robert Bruce Dickson and Mary Ferris Pearsall.
• Marriage*: Ann married Richard Matthew Chalmers on 27 July 1991.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003