When Melvin Tucker was born in September 1848, in Evans, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Joshua Tucker, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Woodard, was 22. He married Julia Ann Woodard about 1871, in Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Martinsburg, Dixon, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Galena Township, Dixon, Nebraska, United States in 1920. He died on 30 January 1926, at the age of 77, and was buried in Martinsburg South Cemetery, Martinsburg, Dixon, Nebraska, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Dixon, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Dixon, Nebraska, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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