Another Post About L.G. Tucker

Rev. L.G. and Hannah Tucker

The following is an account originally written by a cousin named Dell Tucker Suttles, given to me by Ralph Dixon Love some time back. L.G. Tucker is my 3rd Great Grandfather.

                              On To Texas
The Reverend Lewis Gordon Tucker and Hanna Rosewell Rhea were married May l9, 1842 in Wayne County, Tennessee. Their children were: James Milton, John Rhea, Albert Spartan, Rufus Alexander, William Walker, Benjamin King, Moses Porter, Baby daughter, Roenia Jane, Cornelia Ann, Martha Viania Hannah.

The Reverend Lewis Gordon Tucker was educated and taught school in Tennessee.
During a revival he was converted and called to preach. Soon after that he was
married to Hannah Rhea, daughter of Mose Rhea and Anna Austin who was a cousin of Stephen F. Austin. Later they moved to Arkansas. After a few hard years there, in September 1857, they left their home for Texas in an ox wagon (four oxen). It was said that this wagon was made especially for this trip. It was made of hickory and did not have a nail, bolt, or piece of iron about it. The spindle was of tough hickory and the bed or bottom of the wagon was woven something like we see cane ‘bottoms. On real heavy cleats or slats the body was put together with wooden pegs.

The trip was made in six weeks. It was also said that Uncle Milt Tucker, the oldest boy, and later sheriff of Williamson County, walked all the way from Arkansas and drove the ox team. Near Round Rock where they stopped to camp, a fort had previously been built, called Blockhouse, to protect settlers from Indians., Brown Davis, a colony builder, found them camped there and insisted that they settle with them.
There they found plenty of grass for the oxen and plenty of wood and water. Grandpa and the oldest boys got a job that winter splitting rails, The job meant fifty dollars which was plenty of money to live on. This was three miles south of Leander and I think to the right of the road toward Austin. They later moved on the Gabriel going toward Georgetown. Here they were living when Uncle Milt and Uncle John went to the Civil War. After this they bought a place south of Knoll. It was here that Lewis Gordon Tucker was building a new home when he passed away. The house was only partly finished. The lumber was hauled from Round Rock from the new railroad there lt was thought that hard work and trying to complete the house hastened his death.
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Hannah Rosewell Rhea's mother was Anne Austin who married Mose Rhea. She is probably buried in Carroll County, Arkansas. She was a cousin of Stephen F. Austin who never married.
Reverend Lewis Gordon's father was William Tucker. His mother was Martha Gordon Tucker from an old line of Tuckers who settled in Pennsylvania and Virginia in the middle l700's. They came from England.

On that note, the following is a set of notes from my interview with Ralph Dixon Love at Andice, Tx about Rev. L.G. Tucker. There is of course some overlap with the above. If it is a bit choppy it is from notes taken while talking.

 Ralph Love interview by William C Seward abt 1980
                                       TUCKERS
Nancy & Hannah Rhea and other sister Marg Stennet (Bill Stennet) were cousins to Stephen F. Austin. Their mother was sister to Moses Austin. Rhea family came
from Conn. to Mo. The Tuckers came from Tenn. to Yellville.Ark.
L.G. & Hannah Tucker married in Weekly County. TN. L.G.
attended Bethel College'(Presbyterian). He was in the first graduating
class. The college was located near Memphis, Tn. (White Cnty..Sparta,Wilson
Cnty.) (Not sure what that referred to.)
All moved to White River Ark. Many family members died from cholera. They moved to Tn and in 1850 moved back to Ark. and organized a church. (Cumberland Presbyterian).
(L.G. & Hannah Tucker’s) oldest child was John Tucker. One son
Spartan died age 3 or 10 on the trail this side of Texarkana. Begged
not to be left but buried there. No-one knows where grave is located
now.
Tuckers settled at Dennis Prairie below Matsler Cemetery;
Relations nearby at the time were Aunt Matt & Aunt Meg Stanley. Jesse Stanley was the family gambler. He would disappear many times to San Saba & Llano County for months. 
Uncle Bill Stanley Tex. Ranger (or Marshal ?) was killed near Andice by rustlers John Barber and Fred Whitley. Whitley’s descendents are Willie Mae Price and Gena Lynn (Garner) Mabry. (W.C. Seward worked with Gena Mabry at Alamo Steel in Austin in the 1980's) Willie Mae is librarian in Burnet. Whitley was killed in Falfurrias by law officers. Buried in Mahomet.

Martha Ora Tucker Seward was first cousin to Wild Bill Tucker and his brother James (Jim) Hudson Tucker. Both married sisters who were termed as  "colorful girls”.  They moved to Ariz. Jim’s daughter was 5 years old when Jim
died . His wife asked her sister if she would leave Bill so she could marry him. Sister agreed and left. Bill Tucker was a sound effects and stunt man in Hollywood. He visited Seward Junction about 1956 +/-.

Martha Ora Tucker Seward and Wild Bill Tucker at gravesite of L.G. Tucker, Matsler Cemetery near Andice, Tx.