Missouri "Zoe" Florence Buckley was born About 1867. Her parents were Leonard Alfred Watkins & Emma K. Kindrick.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri •
Mon, Aug 16, 1897
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Zoe and her sister Lucy boarded a train from Denver, CO to St Louis, MO to visit friends, then they planed to go to New Orleans to ladies seminar, but on or near the 19th of July in 1882 Zoe went missing. Around 2pm that day she put on her bonnet and walked out of the house to mail some letters. By 9pm her friend and sister grew alarmed that she had not returned.
Here are a few links to some newspaper articles about her missing.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-globe-democrat-missouri-zoe/183228968/?xid=637&_gl=1*1vn5vvd*_gcl_au*MTY3MTM1NjEyMC4xNzU3ODYzNjMw*_ga*MTgxOTQ1NjgzMi4xNzU3ODYzNjMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzUkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDkzMDMkajU5JGwwJGgw*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzYkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDkzMDMkajU5JGwwJGgw
Her case stirred up so many weird things, some man in prison said he knew who killed her and that started up crazy story about chloroform and abortion and other things that were not true. Below is an article with it all.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-zoe-watkins/179530238/?xid=637&_gl=1*18l5uej*_gcl_au*MTY3MTM1NjEyMC4xNzU3ODYzNjMw*_ga*MTgxOTQ1NjgzMi4xNzU3ODYzNjMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzUkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk3NDkkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzYkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk4NDUkajYwJGwwJGgw
When her body was found in the river:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-globe-democrat-missouri-zoe/183229276/?xid=637&_gl=1*1sn8vp6*_gcl_au*MTY3MTM1NjEyMC4xNzU3ODYzNjMw*_ga*MTgxOTQ1NjgzMi4xNzU3ODYzNjMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzUkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk3NDkkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzYkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk4NDUkajYwJGwwJGgw
https://www.newspapers.com/article/pike-county-chronicle-zoe-watkins/179532174/?xid=637&_gl=1*99i8s2*_gcl_au*MTY3MTM1NjEyMC4xNzU3ODYzNjMw*_ga*MTgxOTQ1NjgzMi4xNzU3ODYzNjMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzUkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk3NDkkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzYkZzEkdDE3NjA4MDk4NDUkajYwJGwwJGgw
It had been mentioned she may have committed suicide but I don't think so, I think she was murdered.
I add a lot of the crimes I find to Google Earth, below is a link with Zoe and Ida Buckley where their bodies were found and where Zoe was staying while she was visiting in St. Louis.
https://earth.google.com/web/search/2215+Gamble+Ave,+St+Louis,+MO/@38.63483164,-90.1485052,148.86067933a,56703.41757911d,34.99998516y,0h,0t,0r/data=CiwiJgokCf_fa8KeiUNAERXkq5_bF0NAGetN4jPuO1bAIdQKuj5g1lbAQgIIATIpCicKJQohMVkxZGVZVkRNTi1nc003Ty0yNkMyUnpGVWpvQkhKNHJfIAE6AwoBMEICCABKCAiss5CXBRAB
I made Zoe a tree on Ancestry and have lots more newspaper articles attached to it and if you have newspapers.com all my articles I have clipped can be viewed so feel free to check them out.
Leonard Alfred Watkins He was born in England. (Zoe's father) died in 1896 and her mother Emma in 1915. Her death was a huge toll on him. There is a Find A Grave memorial for them.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13471839/leonard-a-watkins?_gl=1*cge1al*_gcl_au*MTY3MTM1NjEyMC4xNzU3ODYzNjMw*_ga*MTgxOTQ1NjgzMi4xNzU3ODYzNjMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzUkZzEkdDE3NjA4MTA5MzIkajU5JGwwJGgw*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*czUyZGFiMDkwLWRmZjgtNDZkOS1hODgyLTU3OWQzOTMxZTRiMiRvMzYkZzEkdDE3NjA4MTA5MzIkajU5JGwwJGgw
Source: "History of the State of Colorado"
Circa 1891
Poor Zoe was only 14 years old, she had her whole life ahead of her.
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