GENEALOGY OF TUCKER FAMILY OF MD, WV, OH, AND WHITLEY CO., IN


If you are a male TUCKER descended from this family, to date no one has DNA tested
from this line. DNA testing at present has shown three distinct TUCKER lines from
Maryland. If a TUCKER male from this line were to DNA test, it would show which, if
any of the three lines is ours.

Richard TUCKER was born between 1760¹-1765.² He was married in Frederick Co., MD, 
  but appeared in the 1790 and 1800 Montgomery Co., MD with 29 and 53 slaves
  respectively.  Both were unusually high numbers, but no record is found
  of his owning any land.  By 1803 he was in Hampshire Co., (West) Virginia,³
  where other TUCKER families with a Montgomery Co., MD origin were
  living, but no relation has been proved.  He last appeared there in the
  1828 list.⁴ Richard died between 1833 when he purchased a tract of land⁵
  in Richland Co., OH and 1840.⁶ In 1845 that tract of land was part of
  a four mile wide strip that was changed from Richland to Crawford Co., OH.
m. 18 Feb. 1786⁷
  Rachel HIGGINS b. 1760/1770 MD;¹ children:'
1. John H. TUCKER⁶ b. ca. 1788⁸ MD⁸; m.1. -?- -?- ca. 1810;¹⁰ m.2. Martha
   CONNLEY 17 Jan. 1839;⁹ died between 1 June 1860⁸ and 16 Feb. 1861¹²
2. Mary "Polly" TUCKER⁶ b. ca. 1792¹¹/3¹³ MD¹¹; never married (insane);¹³ 
   living 1850 Richland Co., OH¹¹
3. Hosea TUCKER⁶ b. 1808¹⁴ Hampshire Co., (West) Virginia; m. Catherine
   GARRISON 16 Nov.¹⁴/Dec.¹⁸ 1830; d. 1 Jan. 1859^14,36 Whitley Co., IN³⁶

Hosea TUCKER and Catherine GARRISON had children:
1. William Nelson TUCKER b. 16 Nov. 1831^14,20 Auburn Twp., Crawford Co.,
   OH; m.1. Rachel WINDLE 27 Sep. 1857;¹⁶ m.2. Mary Jane MONTAGUE 
   1 Sep. 1869;^19,20,44 d. 23 Apr. 1912 Albany, Whiteside Co., IL;^19,20
   bur. Oakridge Cem., Albany, Whiteside Co., IL^20,32
2. Lucinda TUCKER b. 19 Dec. 1832¹⁴ OH; m. John L. SHOWALTER 1 July 1851;¹⁵
   m.2. John L. SHOWALTER 14 Apr. 1855;¹⁶ [he 2ndly married her sister Martha];
   m.3. James Jones 31 Dec. 1863¹⁶; living 1870²¹
3. Rachel TUCKER b. 17 Sep. 1834¹⁴ OH; m. Isaiah SMITH 22 Jan. 1856;¹⁶
   [he 2ndly married her sister Sarah]; d. 1856¹⁶-1860²² Whitley Co., IN
4. Richard Wheeler TUCKER b. 24 July 1836¹⁴ OH; m. Susanna WINDLE
   8 Mar. 1857;¹⁶ d. 1864²³-1870²⁴
5. Robert Albert TUCKER b. 13 Mar.²⁵/3 May 1839¹⁴ Ashland Co., OH;¹⁴ m.1.
   Sarah Ellen Elizabeth JONES 5 Nov. 1865;^14,28 m.2. Dorotha Hannah L. KERNS¹⁴
   14 May 1892;²⁹ divorced 14 Apr. 1911;¹⁴ d. 30 Jan. 1917;²⁷
   bur. Coesse Hope Lutheran Cem., Union Twp., Whitley Co., IN^26,27,46
6. Martha Ann TUCKER b. 25 Aug. 1841^14,33,47 OH; m. John L. SHOWALTER 20 June 1879;^30,31
   d. 13 Jan. 1929, bur. Fenton Cem., Whiteside Co., IL^33,47
7. Sarah Ann TUCKER by 10 Jan. 1844^14,27 OH; m. Isaiah SMITH 14 Sep. 1865;¹⁶
   d. 16 Feb. 1931;²⁷ bur. Garrison Cem., Smith Twp., Whitley Co., IN^27,34
8. Samuel TUCKER b. Jan. 1846¹⁴ OH; d. 4 Feb. 1846¹⁴ OH
9. Almina TUCKER b. 2 Feb. 1847^14,45 OH; m. Henry GRAVES 9 Feb. 1865;¹⁶
   d. 21 Mar. 1902, bur. Coesse Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Union Twp.,
   Whitley Co., IN^26,45
10.John Marion TUCKER b. 15 Oct. 1849¹⁴ OH; never married; living 1910
   Whitley Co., IN³⁵

Richard W. TUCKER and Susanna WINDLE had children:
1. Martha Elizabeth TUCKER^24,38,40 b. 11³⁷ Jan. 1858⁴³ Whitley Co., IN;
   m. 25 Jan. 1880¹⁷ William Henry ZIMMERMAN;¹⁷ d. 8 Apr. 1926
   Las Animas, Bent Co., Colo.³⁷
2. William J. TUCKER³⁸ b. ca. 1859³⁸ Whitley Co., IN; d. 1860³⁸-1870²⁴
3. Ida Emily TUCKER^24,39 b. ca. 1862³⁹ Whitley Co., IN; m. Jesse S. ENGLE
   7 Sep. 1882;¹⁷ d. ca. 1888⁴¹ Whitley Co., IN
4. Levina Rhoda Jane TUCKER^24,39,40 b. 6 Oct. 1868⁴¹ Whitley Co., IN;
   m. Charles R. RICHEY 31 Oct. 1892;¹⁷ d. 26 Nov. 1913;⁴¹ bur. Lake View
   Cem., Kendallville, Noble Co., IN⁴²


1. 1830 Richland Co., OH census, Auburn Twp, p. 86.
   Richard age 60-70; female [Rachel] age 60-70.
2. 1810 Hampshire Co., VA census, p. 766.
   Richard age over 45
3. Hampshire Co., VA 1803 Lower District personal property tax list, p. 36,
   FHL microfilm 2,024,570.
4. Hampshire Co., VA 1828A Lower District personal property tax list, p. 14,
   FHL microfilm 2,024,572.
5. Richland Co., OH deeds 18:169-170, FHL microfilm 0,386,089.
6. Richland Co., OH deeds 21:621-623, FHL microfilm 0,386,090
   Rachel Tucker released rights in land in #5, and John H. Tucker and wife
   Martha sold one undivided half of the same tract to Hosea Tucker.
   John H. Tucker gave bond to Hosea Tucker to keep him indemnified from 
   all claims of Mary Tucker regarding her interest in the same tract.
7. Frederick Co., MD 1778-1797 marriages licenses, p. 24, FHL microfilm
   0,014,082.
8. 1860 Richland Co., OH census, John Tucker age 22 (sic, 72), p. 334
9. Richland Co., OH marriage record 3:237, FHL microfilm 0,388,736
10. 1850 Richland Co., OH census, p. 465. Daughter Ellen Simmons age 39.
11. John H. Tucker household, 1850 Richland Co., OH census, p. 269.
    [Sister Mary Tucker age 58, idiotic]
12. Richland Co., OH administration index 2:91, FHL microfilm 0,960,095.
13. Richland Co., OH Common Pleas Chancery Record 4:448-450, FHL microfilm
    1,288,411.
    Mary insame from infancy.  Age 48 at April 1841 court term.
14. Albert Tucker, Union Pension File 377,879, Co. K, 139 Reg., Indiana Vol.,
    National Archives.
    His file contains a copy of the Family Record of Hosey Tucker, with
    a letter from William N. Tucker (File 794,872) that "you made a mistake
    by informing the pension department that I had the famley Bible record
    thare never was any famley Bible record kept of our famley the old famley
    Bible had no Blank pages for keeping any on. the famley record was kept
    on a common sheet of writing paper and was laid loos in the Bible for
    safe keeping until I and our mothe[r] took it out of the Bible and
    brought it to Illinois June 1886.
15. Whitley Co., Indiana marriage record 1, June 1847-Apr. 1860, p. 80,
    FHL microfilm 1,710,719
16. Whitley Co., Indiana marriage records, FHL microfilm 1,710,720
      1:205 Showalter-Tucker, Lucinda (1855)
      1:245 Smith-Tucker, Rachel
      1:296 Tucker, Richard-Windell
      1:316 Tucker, William N.-Windel
      2A:187 Jones-Showalter, Lucinda
      2A:243 Graves-Tucker
      2A:275 Smith-Tucker, Sarah
17. Whitley Co., Indiana marriage records, FHL microfilm 1,710,721.
      3:231 Zimmerman-Tucker
      3:486 Engle-Tucker
      5:143 Richey-Tucker
18. Richland County Chapter Ohio Genealogical Society, "The Western
    Sentinel and Richland County Weekly Advertiser," Pastfinder,
    10 (Oct.-Dec. 1991):63.
19. William N. Tucker, Union Pension File 794,872, Co. B, 74th Regt. Ind.
    Vol. Infantry, National Archives.
20. Whiteside Co., IL Obituaries, William N. Tucker obituary. 
21. 1870 Whitley Co., Indiana census, James Jones household, p. 439.
22. Catherine Tucker household, 1860 Whitley Co., Indiana census, p. 745.
    Isaiah Smith in household, Rachel is not.
23. One year before age of 5 given for daughter Rhoda in #24, and age of
    15 in #39 (as Jane).
24. 1870 Whitley Co., Ind. census, Susan Tucker household, p. 463.
25. Declaration for pension dated 2 April 1907 in #14.
26. Genealogical Society of Whitley County, Indiana.
    Coesse Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Union Twp., Whitley Co., Ind.
27. Letter 14 April 1977 from Whitley Co., Indiana Health Department,
    Columbia City, Indiana.
28. Allen Co., Indiana marriage record 6:196, FHL microfilm 2,111,268.
29. Allen Co., Indiana marriage record 19:547, FHL microfilm 2,111,522.
30. Jayne Kennedy Sweger, Marriages in Whiteside County, Illinois 1856-1881
    3000 Marriage Notices Extracted From Early County Newspapers,
    (no location: Sweger, 1973), 92.
31. Clinton Co., Iowa marriage register 2:347, #8092, FHL microfilm
    1,005,210.
32. William N. Tucker headstone Oakridge Cem., Albany, Whiteside Co., IL.
33. Morrison Chapter NSDAR Cemetery Records: Western Half of Whiteside
    County, Illinois, Fenton Cemetery, p. 6.
34. Genealogical Society of Whitley County, Indiana.
    Garrison Cemetery, Smith Twp., Whitley Co., Ind.
35. 1910 Whitley Co., Indiana census, p. 166A.
36. Whitely Co., Indiana Probate Order Book A:224, FHL microfilm 1,710,463.
37. Martha Zimmerman obituary, Bent County Democrat, Las Animas,
    Colorado, 14 April 1926. [birth given as 11 Jan. 1855]
38. 1860 Whitley Co., Ind. census, Richard Tucker household, p. 753.
39. 1880 Whitley Co., Ind. census, Susan Tucker household, p. 380A.
40. Susannah Tucker obituary, unknown newspaper, unknown date, probably
    a Kendallville, Ind. newspaper as Levina "Ritchie" was called "of
    this city."
41. Letter Alma (Sell) Bair to Fredric Z. Saunders, Oct. 1975.  Alma
    was a granddaughter of Ida, and stated Ida died when her (Alma's) mother
    (born 10 Dec. 1883) was age 4.
42. Noble County Genealogical Society, The Cemeteries of Noble County,
    Indiana, (Kendallville, Ind.: Modern Printing Co., 1985), II:100.
43. 1900 Bent Co., Colorado census, William Zimmerman household, p. 289B.
44. Illinois Statewide Marriage Index.
45. Almina Graves headstone Coesse Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Columbia City, Whitley Co., Ind.
46. Albert Tucker headstone Coesse Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Columbia City, Whitley Co., Ind.
47. Martha A. Tucker Showalter headstone Fenton Cemetery, Fenton, Whiteside Co., Ill.
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