> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pat" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:50 AM > Subject: [TUCKER-L] Re: TUCKER-D Digest V02 #30 > > <stuff deleted> > > But anyway I have been watching posts for quite awhile and think Walt > > and David Gish need to get together .They both have William Tuckers in > > same area of KY very early.1800 period.Pat David, are you out there??? If so, I would like to hear from you. I've been chasing this one for years. I have some theories, but not enough to provide a definitive ancestry on my William Tucker. As you know, Tucker researchers seem to have a problem with too many William Tuckers in the same proximity! In my little area of Adair County, KY (which might now be Russell County, I am not sure) I have documented at least three Williams in a 20 year span: 1. My William Tucker shows up in Adair County, KY 1802 (Kentucky Cornstalk militia records), resides along Wolf Creek (three different tax and census records -- 1805, 1806, and 1810), goes off to fight in the war of 1812 (military pay records) and is then killed in January, 1813 (military pay records and a letter written by his son, my gg-grandfather) and never returns home. He leaves behind a wife and six children (1810 census records and a letter written by his son, my gg-grandfather). 2. Another, older William Tucker (sometimes also known as William Wofford Tucker) moves to Adair County, KY from Virginia ca. 1810 to 1812. His adult sons Dandridge Tucker and Drury Tucker are already living in Adair Co., KY at the time that William (Wofford) Tucker moves there. Drury and Dandridge Tucker appear on some of the same Adair Co., KY tax rolls and census records as my William Tucker. However, their father William (Wofford) Tucker cannot have been my William Tucker as I have traced his residence to Amherst, Va. in 1802 (when my William Tucker is shown enlisted in the Kentucky Cornstalk militia) and Bedford, Va. 1803-1810 (when my William Tucker is shown as residing on Wolf Creek with a family in KY). Also, William (Wofford) Tucker has to be somewhat older and is shown as applying for a revolutionary war pension in 1818, after the date of my William Tucker's death. William (Wofford) Tucker died in 1829. 3. William (Wofford) Tucker had a son named William, born 1798 who resided with the older William once he had moved to Adair County. Again, this younger William could not have been my William, as my gg-grandfather's birthdate was December, 1804 and wrote that he was "the fourth of six children". The elder William (Wofford Tucker) had 12 children. This younger William Tucker (son of William Wofford Tucker) married Eliza Campbell in 1821. In an article written about my gg-grandfather in 1898 (who was then 94 years old) he mentioned that his father's ancestors were "early settlers of Virginia and originally came from the Bermudas, which would certainly fit with the ancestry of William Wofford Tucker and his sons Drury Tucker and Dandridge Tucker, who all lived in Adair County, KY. But, Henry Bellinger Tucker also said his father William Tucker was "originally from North Carolina", which doesn't fit with William Wofford Tucker, Drury Tucker, and Dandridge Tucker, who all appear to have moved to Adair Co., KY directly from Virginia. I have thought that my William Tucker and Dandridge and Drury Tucker might have been cousins. I have traced traced the line of William (Wofford) Tucker and his brothers backwards to Bermuda but have yet to find that golden nugget of information that ties his line to my line. I know my William Tucker cannot have been a first cousin to Dandridge and Drury, but perhaps a second or third cousin? All and all it is all a very curious relationship. -- Walt