Pleasant W. "Pleas" Buchanan

BUCHANAN, Pleasant W., died February 25, 1864, was born April 26, 1834, the son of Isaac Buchanan, born at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, who lived at Cane Hill, Arkansas. Isaac was the son of Thomas and Jennie (Neely) Buchanan of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Maiden name of subject’s mother was Naomi Crawford, daughter of John Crawford and wife, who lived at Cave Creek, near Fayetteville, Tennessee. The Buchanan family was originally from Scotland – one branch coming to Virginia and later to Kentucky and Tennessee and later to Arkansas. The family furnished 1800 (?) men to the Confederate Army, many of the Buchanan’s were preachers and many mathematicians. Subject was educated at Cumberland University, was a professor of mathematics, was a Captain of a company in the State service and later a Captain Confederate Service, was a Democrat and a Cumberland Presbyterian. [1911 Arkansas Confederate Census]BUCHANAN, Pleas - The Little Rock Democrat states that Sam

Sixkiller is the man who murdered the 3 Buchanan boys, Pleas, William

and Newt, sons of Uncle Isaac Buchanan, during the war. The three brothers

were surprised and killed near their home on Cane Hill. [Fayetteville

Democrat 1/14/1887]