Tucker, Charles

TUCKER, MURRAY, STREET

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/9/2019 at 18:02:36

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887), p.596:

"CHARLES TUCKER, section 15, Grand River Township, is a native of Somersetshire, England, born March 15, 1840, the sixth of twelve children, of Charles and Sophia (Murray) Tucker. The names of his father's family were – Walter, Joseph, Caroline, Eliza, Betsey, Charles, Henry, Thomas, Emma, James, Harriet, and an infant, died unnamed. Charles Tucker spent his early life on a farm, receiving fair educational advantages. He was married September 3, 1864, to Miss Jane Elizabeth Street, a native of Somersetshire, born April 24, 1837. Her parents, William and Mary Street, were also natives of England, where they were married and had born to them nine children – Ann, William, Jane E., Sarah, Harriet, John, Samuel, John (second), Peter G. and Harriet Ann (second). Mr. Tucker and his wife came to America in 1869, landing in New York, July 7. They first located in Delaware County, Iowa, and two years later moved to Dubuque County. In February, 1876, they moved to Decatur County, and bought eighty acres of wild land in Grand River Township, which was the first farm improved in his neighborhood. He now owns 160 acres of good land, all under cultivation, and a pleasant story-and-a-half house surrounded with native trees. His farm buildings are noticeably good, and his orchard of 100 trees is in good bearing. He is engaged extensively in stock-raising and feeding, an enterprise in which he has been very successful."

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(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)