Charles Steward Tucker

1880–1972 (Age 92)
Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States

The Life of Charles Steward

When Charles Steward Tucker was born on 2 June 1880, in Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States, his father, Lewis Elza Tucker, was 31 and his mother, Olive Elizabeth Giffin, was 32. He married Ora Rebecca Dillon in 1907. They were the parents of at least 1 son. In 1910, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as farmer in Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States. He died on 7 June 1972, in Benton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Steward Tucker
1880–1972
Ora Rebecca Dillon
1886–1972
Marriage: 1907
Merl Olive Tucker
1907–1986

Spouse & Children

MARRIAGE
1907
children

(1)

Parents & Siblings

siblings

(6)

+1 More Child

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 1

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

Age 2

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1904

Age 24

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

1 English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales): occupational name for a fuller, from an agent derivative of Middle English tuck(en) ‘to full cloth’ (Old English tūcian ‘to torment’). This was the term used for the process in the Middle Ages in southwestern England, and the surname is more common there than elsewhere. Compare Fuller and Walker .2 Americanized form of Jewish To(c)ker ( see Tokarz ).3 Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendant of Tuachar’, a personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.

Possible Related Names

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Sources (3)

  • Charles Tucker in household of Le Tucker, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Charles S Tucker, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Charley Tucker, "United States Census, 1920"

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