When Amanda T Tucker was born in December 1841, in Pike, Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, Walter Washington Tucker, was 28 and her mother, Jane Callender, was 23. She married William Harrison Evett on 18 February 1864, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sugar Creek, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died about 1923, in Silverton, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 83.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries - 1854: Marion, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Marion, Oregon, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (southwestern): occupational name from Middle English tuker(e), toker(e) ‘tucker, fuller’, a derivative of tuken ‘to torment, beat’ (Old English tūcian), for someone who fulled and finished cloth. This name for the occupation was characteristic of the West Country. Compare Fuller and Walker and see also Tuckerman .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendant of Tuachar’, a personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear, beloved’.
Americanized form of Jewish Tocker or Toker (see Tokarz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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