Amanda T Tucker

Brief Life History of Amanda T

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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Family Time Line

William Harrison Evett
1839–1906
Amanda T Tucker
1841–about 1923
Marriage: 18 February 1864
Walter Evett
before 1864–before 1864
Effie Almeda Evett
before 1864–1939
Arthur Gilbert Evett
1867–1944
Grace Tobitha Evett
1871–1950
Jane Plithy Evett
1872–1954
Lula Zurella Evett
1881–1951

Sources (16)

  • Amanda Evett in household of Ben F Nicholas, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Amanda Tucker, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Amanda T Tucker - Individual or family possessions: death: about 1923; Silverton, Marion, Oregon, United States

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1854

Historical Boundaries - 1854: Marion, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Marion, Oregon, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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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