Horace Weaver Tucker

22 April 1865–4 January 1930 (Age 64)
Nineveh Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States

The Life Summary of Horace Weaver

When Horace Weaver Tucker was born on 22 April 1865, in Nineveh Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States, his father, David Milton Tucker, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Lynam, was 33. He married Laura Mary Coakley on 18 December 1906, in Bement, Piatt, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bement, Piatt, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 4 January 1930, in Bement Township, Piatt, Illinois, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bement, Piatt, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Horace Weaver Tucker
1865–1930
Laura Mary Coakley
1872–1960
Marriage: 18 December 1906
David Lynn Tucker
1909–1981
Mary Louise Tucker
1912–1940

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 December 1906Bement, Piatt, Illinois, United States
    • Children

    (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (3)

    World Events (8)

    1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
    Age 1
    The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
    1871
    Age 6
    In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
    1885 · The First Skyscraper
    Age 20
    The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

    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’.

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

    Possible Related Names

    Fuller
    Walker
    Tokarz
    Toher
    Tooker
    Tuckerman
    Tugwell

    Sources (10)

    • Horace W Tucker, "United States Census, 1920"
    • Horace Tucker, "United States Census, 1910"
    • Horace Tucker, "United States Census, 1900"

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