ABRAHAM LINCOLN LINK RUCKER: Marriage License - State of Kansas --County of Bourbon To any person authorized by law to perform the Marriage Ceremony, Greeting You are hereby authorized to join in Marriage: Lincoln A. Rucker of Fort Scott Kas, aged 29 years, and Minnie A. Prager of same place, aged 27 years, and of this License you will make due return to my office within thirty days. In Testimony Whereof, I, R.J. Waters, Probate Judge of said County and State, Have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, this 19th day of November A.D. 1889 signed R.J. WATERS Probate Judge {{seal}} ------- CERTIFICATE: I, A.B. McCurdy, do hereby certify that I solemnized the Marriage of Lincoln A. Rucker and Minnie Prager, at Fort Scott on the 20th day of November A.D. 1889. signed A.B. McCurdy Pastor, 1st Baptist Church, Fort Scott, Kansas ------- OBIT: THE FORT SCOTT, KANSAS TRIBUNE - MONITOR -- 23 February 1948 -- RUCKER, Lincoln Abraham " LINK RUCKER RITES " Funeral rites for Lincoln A. Rucker, retired merchant and pioneer resident, who died at his home Friday morning, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Cheney Memorial Chapel. The Rev. W.F. Keesecker of the Presbyterian Church conducted services and spoke of Mr. Rucker's pioneer heritage, his long and useful life and his many acts of kindness. Mrs. Howard Jones played favorite hymns on the chapel organ. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, with the following serving as pallbearers: Walter Prager, Cliff W. Crain, Ralph Ingham, Charles Hanes, Clifford Gordon, D.P. Gordon. Out-of town relatives here for the services were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rucker, Tulsa; Mr. and Mrs. David Gordon, a Son JACK, and a Daughter ANN of Kansas City.. Mr. Rucker was born in a log cabin near Marmaton and was six months old when Kansas was admitted as a state to the union. He moved to Coffeyville in 1892, where he was a merchant for 40 years. Following his retirement in 1936, he came to Fort Scott to make his home. He was a charter member of the Coffeyville Elks lodge and at one time served as secretary. ------- More About ABRAHAM LINCOLN LINK RUCKER: Burial: February 22, 1948, Evergreen Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kansas Wife of Link: MINNIE PRAGER: Burial: October 1931, Evergreen Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kansas Children of ABRAHAM RUCKER and MINNIE PRAGER: CARL RUCKER JACK RUCKER ANN RUCKER __________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] __________________