Andrew Rudacille Tucker,1846-1932

TUCKER, MEANS

Posted By: Connie White (email)
Date: 10/24/2012 at 11:32:20

Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa
Thursday, May 19, 1932, Page 7

Many old time residents of Adams County will regret to hear of the death of an early pioneer, A.R. Tucker, who left this county in 1915, to make his home near his children in the west. For the past four years Mr. Tucker had been living at Hover, Washington, and several times during the past few years we have published in the Free Press interesting letters from Mr. Tucker. He passed away at his home in Hover May 5,1932, at the age of eighty six years.
Andrew R. Tucker was born in Indiana on January 22, 1846, and died at Hover, Washington May 5,1932, aged 86 years, 3 months and 12 days. When only seven years old he accompanied his parents and brothers and sister to Illinois and thence to Iowa where Grandfather and Grandmother Tucker reared the family of ten sturdy children. Six of the boys spent their entire lives in the county in Iowa. Two of them survive Andrew, Martin, 88 and John, 84. One brother recently died at the ripe old age of 93. When the family migrated to Adams County, Iowa, only seven families were living in the entire county.
On December 17, 1870, he was united in marriage to Martha J. Means, who survives him. To their union was born eight children, two of them dying in infancy. Three children are now living, Sterling of Hayden Lake, Idaho, Trenton of Klamath Falls, Oregon and Vern of Hover.
Several trips were made from Iowa to the west to be near the boys. Each time, however, the call of the homeland was so strong that after a few months they would again return to Iowa. Finally in 1915, the lure of the west drew them there to stay, where they have lived in Idaho and Washington, the last four years in Hover. When a young man Mr. Tucker joined the Methodist Church. He was always a friend and pal of the young people from the time he was young enough for them to call him by his first name until later generations addressed him as "Grandpa Tucker". Besides his widow and boys, he leaves to mourn his loss 21 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, two brothers and a host of friends and other relatives.

note; Andrew was the son of Lewis and Anna Schuler Tucker. He is buried in Riverview Heights Cemetery, Kennewick, Benton County, Washington.