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Lewis Gordon Tucker
1814 - 1880
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
The committee on conference presented their report which was
received and adopted and is as follows (viz)
Your committee appointed to confer with brethren impressed
to preach the gospel have conferred with the following brethren
(to wit) Jas. H. Harbison,
L. G. Tucker, Wm.
C. Walker, E____ C. Foster, and Wm. J. Kirkpatrick on their experimental
acquaintance with religion and internal call to the work of the
ministry and they having submitted themselves to the directions
of Presbytery your committee recommends that they be received
under her care as candidates for the holy ministry. (Monday)
[Source: Minutes of Richland Presbytery,
Saturday before the 1st Sabbath in October, 1946, page 178]
At Hopewell church the 26th day of April AD 1847 the
Richland
Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church having
received testimonials in favor of
L. G. Tucker
of his good moral character, of his being in the communion of
the church, proceeding to take the usual parts of trial for his
licensure; and he having given satisfaction as to his_______ to
teach as to his experimental acquaintance with religion; as to
his internal call to the work of the ministry; and as to his proficiency
in divinity; the Presbytery did and do hereby express their approbation
of all those parts of trial. And he having adopted the Confession
of Faith of this church and satisfactorily answered the questions
appointed to be put to candidates to be licensed, the Presbytery
did and do hereby license him the said
L. G. Tucker
to preach the gospel of Christ as a probationer for the holy ministry
within the bounds of this Presbytery or wherever God in his providence
may cast his lot.
[Source: Minutes of Richland Presbytery,
April 1847, meeting at Hopewell Meeting House in Giles County,
Tennessee, page 194]
Bro Lewis G. Tucker, a Licentiate formally
under the care of the
Richland
Presbytery, presented a letter and was received under
the care of this presbytery.
Ouachita Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of Ouachita Presbytery,
September 18, 1850, meeting at Benton, Saline County, Arkansas,
page 28]
Roll Call
Licentiate absent -
L. G.
Tucker
Bartholomew
Presbytery[Source:
Minutes of Bartholomew Presbytery, Nov. 14, 1851 meeting
in Monticello, Drew County, Arkansas, page 1]
Bro. L. G. Tucker presented his letter of
dismission and recommendation from
Bartholomew
Presbytery which was read and he was received as a Licentiate
under the care of this Presbytery.
Washington
Presbytery[Source: Minutes
of Washington Presbytery, October 3, 1854, meeting in Bentonville,
Arkansas, page 43]
Your committee appointed to examine the Licentiates and Candidates
have attended duty assigned them, and are happy to say that on
Literature in a majority of the brethren the examination was very
satisfactory, and on Theology quite so, and recommend to your
favorable consideration, the Lisensure of Bros. J. B. Daniel and
John Hudson. They also find a petition a numbers of the members
of Crook-Creek Congregation and others asking the Ordination of
Bro. L. G. Tucker, which they would recommend
to your favorable consideration. All of which is respectfully
submitted. Adopted.
On motion Bros, J. F. King, John Mitchel and S. H. Ewing were
appointed a committee to examine
Bro. L. G. Tucker
on all the parts of trial required by the book of discipline prepared
to ordination. On motion Bro. M. Holdford was added to the committee.
Bro. L. G. Tucker was ordered to preach five
sermons Yell-ville Congregation before the next session of Pre.
The committee appointed to examine,
Bro. L. G. Tucker
on all those parts of trial preparatory to ordination have attended
to that duty and report that the examination was equally as satisfactory
as your committee had expected, and would recommend his ordination
forthwith. Adopted.
Bro. L. G. Tucker was ordered to preach his
trial sermon at early candle-light to night. Ordered that J. F.
King preach the ordination sermon at eleven o'c. To-morrow and
that Bro. A. Buchanan preside and give the Charge.
Bro. L. G. Tucker preached from Romans 6-22.
Bro. J. F. King preached the ordination sermon from 2 Tim-4C,
1 part of the 2 v. Washington presbytery having received testimony
in favor of
L. G. Tucker of his good moral character
of his being in the communion of the church; proceeded to take
the usual parts of trial for his Ordination. And he having given
satisfaction, as to his aptness to teach, as to his experimental
acquaintance with religion, as to his internal call to the ministry;
and &. Pres. Did and do hereby express their approbation of
all these parts of trial. And satisfactorily answering the questions
put before him the Pres. did then and there set apart the said
L. G. Tucker to the whole work of the ministry
by the imposition of hands and by prayer.
Bro. L. G. Tucker was invited and took his
(seat) as a member of this Pres.
[Source:
Minutes of Washington Presbytery, October 5, 1855, meeting
at Crooked Creek Camp-ground in Carroll County, Arkansas]
On motion an opportunity was given to any who might wish to
unite with or come under the care of the Presbytery. Where
Bro.
L. G. Tucker an ordained minister from Washington Presbytery
Arkansas. His brother Edward Hudson a licentiate from the same
Presbytery presented their letters.
Bro. Tucker was received and asked to take
a seat. Bro. E. Hudson was received under the care of this Presbytery.
Little
River Presbytery[Source:
Minutes of Little River Presbytery, July 7-8, 1859, meeting
at Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas]
L. G. Tucker - Ordained - United with Presbytery
July 8, 1859, Died July 13, 1880
Little
River Presbytery[Source:
Roll of Ministers in back of minute book of Little River Presbytery]
MINISTERS AND CHURCHES IN LITTLE
RIVER PRESBYTERY
Rev. R. O. Watkins, who was located at Bosqueville (then in
the bounds of
Little
River Presbytery) in 1860, tells of attending his first
meeting of
Little
River Presbytery on Cowhouse Creek. Members of the presbytery
had to carry their guns and pistols with them all the time while
presbytery was in session, as the whole country was in a state
of alarm because of Indian depredations. He also mentions preaching
at Salado Springs and Akin on the Leon, and spent some time in
a meeting at "Roundrock campbround," in the course of
his travels over the country attending presbytery and synod, so
it is evident that congregations had been organized at these places
at a very early date.
Among the first ministers to locate in Williamson County was
Rev. Lewis G. Tucker. He was born in Maury County,
Tennessee, January 12, 1811. At the age of twenty-five he was
converted and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. At this
time he was teaching school, but immediately realizing his call
he entered the ministry. In 1836 he married Hannah Rhea, Stephen
F. Austin's first cousin.
In October, 1857, they reached Texas and camped north of Austin
at Pond Springs. Brown Davis, a colony builder, hearing about
the new family rode over to their camp and extended an invitation
to them to locate with him at old Block House, a fort built (and
occupied by a few families) to protect the early settlers. Upon
learning that Tucker was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, Mr.
Davis was more eager than ever to get him to locate with them
and hold services. The meeting between the Davis and Tucker families
was like a family reunion, as both were Cumberland Presbyterians.
This was the first Cumberland Presbyterian sermon preached in
this part of Texas. Soon afterward a church was organized with
twelve members and was called Pond Springs.
Later he moved fourteen miles west of Georgetown on a farm
which he cultivated for a living, while he preached over a territory
in a radius of sixty miles of his home. He always traveled by
horseback, and in his saddle bag could be found the Holy Bible,
a hymn book, and clean socks and shirt which were ever ready through
the faithful help of his devoted wife. He organized churches at
Pond Springs (known now as Pleasant Hill), Elm Grove (known now
as Oak Grove), Hopewell, and Hudson's Bend.
With regard to the early history of Elm Grove, which was located
in the community where the Tuckers lived, the following incident
is related. Located in the same community was another Cumberland
Presbyterian family named Matsler, and it was through Mrs. Matsler's
influence, together with the help of the Tucker family, that a
Sunday school was organized. Another Cumberland Presbyterian minister,
Rev. W. R. Bauchman, also moved into this community, and it was
decided among them that they should build a church. While they
were hewing the logs an intruder came along and demanded to know
if they realized whose timber they were using. Mr. Matsler who
was overseeing the job remarked that he "didn't suppose it
mattered." Some curt words were exchanged, and Bauchman,
realizing that trouble was close at hand, yelled out, "Hold
on, Brother Matsler, I'll fix him," as he rolled up his sleeves
with ax in hand, whereupon the intruder took to flight. There
was no further interference, and the log church was completed.
Rev. L. G. Tucker died in 1880.
In the minutes of
Little
River Presbytery for December, 1883, there is a petition
from a group of members of the Elm Grove congregation asking that
the congregation be divided into two congregations. This was done,
and a new congregation was organized known as Pilot Knob, which
was in existence for a number of years. Evidently this congregation
and Elm Grove were later united to form the Oak Grove congregation.
[Source: History of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Texas. By Thomas H. Campbell. Nashville,
Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1936, pages 109-111.]
