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Source for: Enoch Eugene Tucker, 28 Oct 1869 -
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Birth source: S121Text: Enoch E. and James J. Tucker, October 28th, 1868.
General Source: S15Page: p. 6, Generation 4
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Source for: Cyna Caroline Tucker, 2 Apr 1875 - 20 Jan 1974
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Birth source: S121Text: Ciner C. Tucker, Jr., April 2nd, 1875.
Birth source: S438Note: AUnt Dollie may have been about 93 years old when she wrote this. She was 93 years of age when she wrote "The Tucker Tree" in 1968.
Text: "As I Remember and As My Mother Told Me" by Aunt Dollie. I was born on April 2nd 1875 about 6 miles North & East of Lafayette, Tenn. in Macon County on what is known as "Long Ford" Creek on the east side in a two room log house which burned down and the tall brick chimney has recently been torn down.
And to our family (my father) were born 9 children of whom 2 boys (Jack and Nuck) were twins - in all 7 boys and 2 girls. One brother a medical Dr. - my sister was the wife of Judge J. C. Carter, Sr. Others married and had families and drifted about here and there.
My father was something of a wanderlust. When he began to have a large family he started to thinking of the honey pond in other fields so we, having connections in the West, he got together wagons and teams and started rolling. One brother the oldest (Henry) rode horseback to Missouri with a cousin (Don Pipkin) while my mother father and the 5 children went in covered wagons. I was the baby at that time 2 yrs old. We crossed the Mississippi river in houseboat. I've been told but forgotten how many days we traveled but we did arrive near where our relatives were close to Sarcoxie, Missouri. Our relatives were Riley and Green Meadow, also some Segraves & I don't remember the name. Well, my father didn't find the "money tree" so in 2 more years we were ready to return having been sick quite a bit & another brother was born (Tom Tucker) and ways been called a "Missouri Puke." In the meantime I had chills and fever by this time I can begin to remember things, being 4 years old so, I remember the Drs. name was Dr. Long who gave me chill tonic medicine. I can also remember the house we lived in - just one big room with fireplace to cook in & an upstairs room where all the largest boys went at night to sleep. So we traveled back but by that time all I remember was playing & my Grandfather (my father being the oldest) bought a farm on White Oak creek for my father. The farms lay joining each other and to this day his grandson Duie (Dewey) Tucker still owns and has it farmed, his son (Larry Tucker) being on the farm now. When my father came back his brothers lived close by, also most of his sisters. One, the youngest, married Marshall Cook. Her name was Amanda and my how we all loved going to see Aunt Amanda. We just had a little neighborhood of our own having several aunts and uncles on joining farms. Uncle Dink & Uncle Wesley Tucker were the only other boys of my grandfather. My father's name was Granville Jackson Tucker, my Grandfather was Wesley Washington Tucker and the names are carried on down the line of the Tucker generation. My maternal grandmother was a Williams - don't even remember any of her people except one man cousin Jess Williams who ran continually for office but never got elected. A distant relative was Luke Brooks who ran a tan-yard for tanning stock hides to make shoes.
My grandfather was a slave driver for men much more wealthy than he & he hired to them to manage the slaves.
One of my Aunts married George Wilson, her name was Eliza & had 8 children two of whom made medical Drs. ("i.e." Bud and Tom) Wilson. The name George (I had a brother George) also Wesley and Washington seem to be handed down in family connections.
Our Tucker generation were all descendants of my Grandfather I never knew any other Tuckers except our own family Tree. We were a closely knit family back when we were growing up and to this day of my generation I have only one cousin older than I and that is Dink Tucker's oldest child who lives in Lawton, Oklahoma. Only 5 of my generation still living. The others are Wesley Cook and his sister Virgie and J. A. Tucker, Uncle Dink's youngest child.
Now as I am writing this just for a reference (if anyone would like to know):
My father was a very educational (sic) minded man but just couldn't make a living for his large family and educate them too; but I have heard him say "I do mean for every child I've got to have enough book knowledge to teach school". All did except two who married too soon before they were 21 but the rest all taught. I myself tried to teach 4 schools, 3 of which were in the same place High Land on the headwaters of Dixon's Creek, Tennessee.
And there was where I met & married Abe Parker in the year 1896. To this union was born one son Gene Parker. Abe Parker was a strong Democrat although he was named for President Abe Lincoln. In 1902 he ran for sheriff of Macon County & the county had never had a Democrat Sheriff but he was elected by a goodly majority so at the insistence of both Republican & Democrat he ran & was elected again. Both sides wanted him to run again but he refused on account of his health.
He had put everything in the way of his health in his work to clean up the county of vice & corruption and it had sapped his life away so we decided to take up roots in the Indian Territory and in one year Dr. Will Faust who had moved to Indian Territory 2 years before & who was our family physician advised him to "get going" his health had grown steadily worse. Dr. Faust had gone from Lafayette that being the case they had always known each other, so he told him to travel & we didn't have the money to do any big traveling so we bought a team and wagon & started. Again times found me Mr. Abe (as I called him) and Gene in a covered wagon traveling this time East in place of West.
We left I.T. on Sept 7, 1907 & that very day Indian Territory came in a state so the birth of the great state of Oklahoma was born, the day after Genie's birthday.
The first night out we camped at Fort Torson where there were many Indian mounds & after we had our supper he went and bought a newspaper to hear the news of the moval of the charter from Guthrie to Oklahoma City and to our horror Big Head Lines telling of the battle on the train as it carried the papers but they got there without a death. Texas Rangers were in on it protecting the papers, but the Guthrie people were hard hit to give it up. So we traveled 24 more days in a covered wagon and would have enjoyd (sic) it had I not seen from day to day it was doing him no good so we went to Hot Springs, Ark. to drink the water, but he had always been a strong minded man & though he made a wonderful try he just couldn't take it so we headed back to Lafayette, Macon Co, Tennessee. There at ny brother's house he passed away in just eleven days.
Now who could deny that the Lord didn't have his unseen hand helping to get him back so that he could see his dear old Mother one more time & he did. We went to see her one time. She was then in her late eighties & passed away the next April.
So the world fell apart for me and my little Fatherless boy. I had never had a real responsibility till then for when I left my Fathers home where he had the responsibility I went to Mr. Abe & took that all on himself he being 12 years my senior & when I'm laid to rest it will be at the Parker graveyard close to Lafayette, Macon County, Tennessee.
I could really write a book if I could hold out, but too late. If you care to read, I thank you.
"'As I Remember' continued : Another chapter in my life"
You will excuse me & put it together in different form - so much more I would like to say. On our travels we were visited at our camps by numbers of Indians. They were very nice indeed and very best neighbor in Ada Indian Territory were Indians 1/2 breeds. Gene had his picture made with Gennilea Eaton our little neighbor girl - its somewhere here now.
As we traveled thru Arkansas we camped at one place in the swamps where there was a wagon road made right thru a big cypress tree the largest tree I ever saw. We have a picture here somewhere. Mr. Abe had 7 brothers and 4 sisters - 12 children in all and all lived to be married & have a family except one had no children.
Date: ABT 1968
Birth source: S439Text: "The Tucker Tree" by Aunt Dollie (Cine Caroline Tucker parker Eubanks) March 1968 and October 1968. For David McLellan, Jr.
I was asked to write something abut our Tuckers and I can only write about our immediate family.
Grandfather, Wesley Washington Tucker was born 11/21/1807; passed away 11/16/1900.
Grandmother Tucker Sina (sp?) Caroline was born 3/27/1811; passed away 8/23/1906.
To this union was born 10 children 2 of which passed away in infancy. Their oldest son Granville Jackson Tucker was born 5/28/1832 and passed away 3/15/1900,
My mother born 10/25/1836; passed away 4/1/1919. Her maiden name was margaret Anroe harwood. Then our oldest aunt, America (Duci) Tucker, first married Pierce Harwood's father whom I didn't ever know. but she had one boy (Pierce) and one daughter, Sis. She later married hance Gillenwater and one son was born (Tucker Gillenwater). Then the third child, a girl, Evelyn, who married Bailey Cosby and had five children, four boys and one girl: Robert Cosby, Gill Cosby, Gus Cosby and Brown Cosby, daughter was Josie Gum, the wife of jack Gum. I'm not sure how the other children cam in but I think the next was Jennie Driver who married Alvin Driver. They had first, Fannie Archer, next Sara Ann Bray, then Eliza Driver, then Nancy Jane--don't know who she married.
Then came Davy Tom Driver, then Dolly, Fox Driver, then Hatten Tucker Driver, then Aunt Adelaide Ragan (Adlay). 1st, Willie Ragan, then Duck Ragan, Tom, Buttram, then Janie Ragan Hargas. Then Tomp Ragan, Babe Ragan and Toody Patterson Ragan, wife of John Patterson then Joe Jargas Ragan and Enoch Ragan.
Now Aunt Elizabeth Harwood wife of Marion Harwood. To this union was born Kincheon Harwood and by the way this name ran down the family name line could be traced down in Tennessee. About Murfreesboro and Stones River which ws supposed to have run 3 days in blood in the Civil War. I have seen this place as no doubt some of you have and the cemetery on both sides for ever so far.
Now back to the Harwoods, next Kincheon was Cousin Lesa Cook the Mother-in-law of my dear nephew jack Tucker & Grace her daughter; then came Thornburg and Elihu and the well-known Granville Harwood and two sisters Caroline and Cricket.
Now the next in line was Aunt Eliza Wilson wife of Uncle George whom all the Tucker children love. Their children were Bud Wilson, an MD, next Caroline Wilson hagan mother of Aldridge hagan and his brother Cleveland Hagan, then next in line Dr. Tom Wilson, his sister Amanda Ellen, Garfield, Dink, Dock and Wesley. See this Wesley goes down the line whose ancestors date back to the famous brothers in Methodist circles. The Wesley brothers who were great in Methodist line.
Now comes Aunt Amanda Cook who married marshall Cook, father of Wesley Wilson Cook of Lafayette who is next oldest of our general of which I am the oldest. Not buy 4 of our generation living, one being Jas. A. Tucker - Uncle Dink Tucker's only child by his last wife, then Virgie Cook Dotson, sister of wesley Cook whom we all know.
David, I hope you can read this. My fingers are very stiff. Can't do as well as I once did. But you know, bad as I hate to own it, I'm really one of the Cenior (senior) generation. I hope you can get of it and will remember me in your prayers. I love you. Aunt Dollie, age 93.
Date: 1968
General Source: S15Page: p. 7-8
Text: The Tucker Tree by Aunt Dollie (Cine Caroline Tucker Parker Eubands) March 1968 and October 1968. For David McLellan, Jr. I was asked to write something about our Tuckers and I can only write about our immediate family. Grandfather, Wesley Washington Tucker was born 11/21/1807; passed away 11/16/1900. Grandmother Tucker Sina (sp?) Caroline was born 3/27/1811; passed away 8/23/1906. To this union was born 10 children 2 of which passed away in infancy. Their oldest son Granville Jackson Tucker was born 5/28/1832 and passed away 3/15/1900.
My mother born 10/25/1836; passed away 4/1/1919. Her maiden name was Margaret Anroe Harwood. Then our oldest aunt, America (Duck) Tucker, first married Pierce Harwood's father whom I didn't ever know. But she had one boy (Pierce) and one daughter, Sis. She later married Hance Gillenwater and one son was born (Tucker Gillenwater). Then the third child, a girl, Evelyn, who married Bailey Cosby and had five children, four boys and one girl: Robert Cosby, Gil Cosby, Gus Cosby and Brown Cosby, daughter was Joseie Gum, the wife of Jack Gum. I'm not sure how the other children came in but I think the next was Jennie Driver who married Alvin Driver. They had first Fannie Archer, next Sara Ann Bray, then Eliza Driver, then Nancy Jane--don't know who she married. Then came Davy Tom Driver, then Dolly, Fox Driver, then Hatten Tucker Driver, the Aunt Adelaide Ragan (Adlay). 1st, Willie Ragan, then Duck Ragan, Tom, Buttram, then Janie Ragan Hargas. Then Tomp Ragan, Babe Ragan and Toody Patterson Ragan, wife of John Patterson then Joe Jargas Ragan and Enoch Ragan.
Now Aunt Elizabeth Tucker Harwood wife of Marion Harwood. To this union was born Kincheon Harwood and by the way this name ran down the family name line could be traced down in Tennessee. About Murfreesboro and Stones River which was supposed to have run 3 days in blood in the Civil War. I have seen this place as no doubt some of you have and the cemetery on both sides for ever so far.
Now the next in line was Aunt Eliza Wilson wife of Uncle George whom all the Tucker children love. Their children were Bud Wilson, an MD, next Caroline Wilson Hagan mother of Aldridge Hagan and his brother Cleveland Hagan, then next in line Dr. Tom Wilson, his sister AManda Ellen, Garfield, Dink, Dock and Wesley. See this Wesley goes down the line whose ancestors date back to the famour brothers in Methodist circles. The Wesley brothers who were great in Methodist line.
Now comes Aunt Amanda Cook who married Marshall Cook, father of Wesley Wilson Cook of Lafayette who is next oldest of our general of which I am the oldest. Not but 4 of our generation living, one being Jas. A. Tucker - Uncle Dink Tucker's only child by his last wife, then Virgie Cook Dotson, sister of Wesley Cook whom we all know.
David, I hope you can read this. My fingers are very stiff. Can't do as well as I once did. But you know, bad as I hate to own it, I'm really one of the Cenior (senior) generation. I hope you can get of it and will remember me in your prayers. I love you. Aunt Dollie, age 93.
General Source: S440Page: p. 8-10
Note: In Descendants of Joseph Tudor Tucker by Bonnie T. Batey. Aunt Dollie was two years old at the time her parents headed West which would have been in 1877 then. From a typed copy by Bonnie Tucker Batey.
Text: I was born on April 2nd 1875 about 6 miles North & East of Lafayette, Tenn. in Macon County on what is known as "Long Fork" Creek on the east side in a two room log house which burned down and the tall brick chimney has recently been torn down.
And to our family (my father) were born 9 children of whom 2 boys (Jack and Nuck) were twins - in all 7 boys and 2 girls. One brother a medican Dr. - my sister was the wife of Judge J. C. Carter, St. Others married and had families and drifted about here and there.
My father was something of a wanderlust. When he began to have a large family he started to thinking of the honey pond in other fields so we, having connections in the West, he got together wagons and teams and started rolling. One brother the oldest (Henry) rode horseback to Missouri with a cousin (Don Pipkin) which my mother father and the 5 children went in covered wagons. I was the baby at that 2 yrs. old. We crossed the Mississippi river in houseboat. I've been told but forgotten how many days we traveled but we did arrive near where our relatives were close to Sarcoxie, Missouri. Our relatives were Riley and Green Meador, also some Segraves & I don't remember the name. Well, my father didn't find the "money tree" so in 2 more years we were ready to return having been sick quite a bit & another brother was born (Tom Tucker) and always been called a "Missouri Puke." In the meantime I had chills and fever by this time I can begin to remember things, being 4 years old so, I remember the Drs. name was Dr. Long who gave me chill tonic medicine. I can also remember the house we lived in - just one big room with fireplace to cook in & an upstairs room where all the largest boys went at night to sleep. So we traveled back but by that time all I remember was playing & my Grandfather (my father being the oldest) bought a farm on White Oak creek for my father. The farms lay joining each other & to this day his grandson Duie (Dewey) Tucker still owns and has it farmed, his son (Larry Tucker) being on the farm now. When my father came back his brothers lived close by, also most of his sisters. One, the youngest married Marshall Cook. Her name Amanda and my how we all loved going to see Aunt Amanda. We just had a little neighborhood of our own having several aunts and uncles on joining farms. Uncle Dink & Uncle Wesley Tucker were the only other boys of my grandfather. My father's name was Granville Jackson Tucker, my Grandfather was Wesley washington Tucker and the names are carried on down the line of the Tucker generation. My maternal grandmother was a Williams-don't even remember any of her people except one man cousin Jess Williams who ran continually for office but never got elected. A distant relative was Luke Brooks who ran a tan-yard for tanning stock hides to make shoes.
My grandfather was a slave driver for men much more wealthy than he & he hired to them to manage the slaves.
One of my Aunts married George wilson, her name was Eliza & had 8 children two of whom made medical Drs. ("i.e." Bud and Tom) Wilson. The name George (I had a brother George) also Wesley and Washington seem to be handed in family connections.
Our Tucker generation were all descendants of my Grandfather I never knew any other Tuckers except our own family Tree. We were a very closely knit family back when we were growing up and to this day of my generation I have only one cousin older than I and that is Dink Tucker's oldest child who lives in Lawton, Oklahoma. Only 5 of my generation still living. The others are Wesley Cook and his sister Virgie and J. A. Tucker, Uncle Dink's youngest child.
Now as I am writing this just for a reference (if anyone would like to know):
My father was a very educational minded man but just couldn't make a living for his large family and educate them too; but I have heard him say "I do mean for every child I've got to have enough book knowledge to teach school." All did except two who married too soon before they were 21 but the rest all taught. I myself tried to teach 4 schools, 3 of which were in the same place High Land on the headwaters of Dixon's Creek, Tennessee.
And there was where I met & married Abe Parker in the year 1896. To this union was born one son Gene Parker. Abe Parker was a strong Democrat although he was named for President Abe Lincoln. In 1902 he ran for sheriff of Macon COunty & the county had never had a Democrat Sheriff but he was elected by a goodly majority so at the insistence of both Republican & Democrat he ran & was elected again. Both sides wanted him to run again but he refused on account of his health.
He had put everything in the way of his health in his work to clean up the couty of vice & corruption and it had sapped his life away so we decided to take up roots in the Indian Territory and in one year Dr. Will Faust who had moved to Indian Territory 2 years before & who was our family physician advised him to "get going" his health had grown steadily worse. Dr. Faust had gone from Lafayette that being the case they had always known each other, so he told him to travel & we didn't have the money to do any big traveling so we bought a team and wagon & started. Again times found me Mr. Abe (as I called him) and Gene in a covered wagon traveling this time East in place of West. We left I.T. on Sept 7, 1907 & that very day Indian Territory came in a state so the the birth of the great state of Oklahoma was born, the day after Genie's birthday.
The first night out we camped at Fort Torson where there were many Indian mounds & after we had our supper he went and bought a newspaper to hear the news of the moval [sic] of the charter from Guthrie to Oklahoma City and to our horror Big Head Lines telling of the battle on the train as it carried the papers but they got there without a death. Texas Rangers were in on it protecting the papers, but Guthrie people were hard hit to give it up. So we traveled 24 more days in a covered wagon and would have enjoyd it had I not seen from day to day it was doing him no good so we went to Hot Springs, Ark. to drink the water, but he had always been a strong minded man & though [sic] he made a wonderful try he just couldn't take it so we headed back to Lafayette, Macon Co., Tennessee. There at my brother's house he passed away in just eleven days.
Now who could deny that the Lord didn't have his unseen hand helping to get him back so that he could see his dear old Mother one more time & he did. We went to see her one time. She was then in her late eighties & passed away the next April.
So the world fell apart for me and my little Fatherless boy. I had never had a real responsibility till then for when I left my Fathers home where he had the responsibility I went to Mr. Abe & took that all on himself he being 12 years my senior & when I'm laid to rest it will be at the Parker graveyard close to Lafayette, Macon County, Tennessee.
I could really write a book if I could hold out, but too late.
If you care to read I thank you.
"As I Remember" continued : Another chapter in my life.
You will excuse me & put it together in different form - so much more I would like to say. On our travels we were visited at our camps by numbers of Indians. They were very nice indeed and very best neighbor in Ada Indian Territory were Indians 1/2 breeds. Gene had his picture made with Gennilea Eaton our little neighbor girl - its somewhere here now.
As we traveled thru (sic) Arkansas we camped at one place in the swamps where there was a wagon road made right thru a big cypress tree the largest tree I ever saw. We have a picture here somewhere. Mr. Abe had 7 brothers & 4 sisters - 12 children in all and all lived to be married & have a family except one had no children.
General Source: S970Note: Her first name is spelled Sina with birth in 1875, Macon Co., Tennessee.