Individual Details

When a young boy, O.A. Tucker came with his parents from N. Judson, Indiana to a farm in the Yankeetown vicinity, Woodford, Co., Illinois, where he attended the rural schools. He was united in marriage with Geneva Martin, Dec. 10, 1902. They lived on farms in the Minonk, Illinois vicinity all of their married life until he retired from farming and moved into town in 1948.

Additional Note: I had never heard of Yankeetown, even growing up in this area, so I checked it out. I found a 1895 Woodford County map which clearly shows Yankeetown, approximately 4 miles due West of Minonk, and approx. 4 miles North of Benson. At the time, Yankeetown had a post office, but no railroad, as Benson and Minonk had. The lack of a railroad is likely the reason Yankeetown did not survive. By 1949, a Woodford County plat map shows the area that was once Yankeetown as privately owned farmland.

Birth	6 Nov 1875	North Judson, Starke Co., Indiana
Census (family)-shared	1880	(Edward A. Tucker and Eliza Ellen Nelson) Putnam Co., Illinois
Census (family)-shared	1900	(Edward A. Tucker and Eliza Ellen Nelson) Woodford Co., Illinois
Marriage	10 Dec 1902	Minonk, Woodford Co., Illinois - Emma Geneva Martin
Census (family)	1910	Woodford Co., Illinois - Emma Geneva Martin
Religion	1915	joined the Presbyterian church on Oct. 3, 1915 and was elected and ordained to the office of Ruling Elder in 1918 - Minonk, Woodford Co., Illinois
Census (family)	1920	Woodford Co., Illinois - Emma Geneva Martin
Census (family)	1930	Woodford Co., Illinois - Emma Geneva Martin
Census (family)	1940	Woodford Co., Illinois - Emma Geneva Martin
Death	14 Jan 1952	Rutland, LaSalle Co., Illinois
Burial		Minonk Township cemetery - N 1/2 of Lot 109, Block 80, Minonk, Woodford Co., Illinois

Spouse	Emma Geneva Martin (1881 - 1954)
Child	Clifford Martin Tucker (1903 - 1903)
Child	Leeta Alene Tucker (1904 - 1991)
Child	Edna Laura Tucker (1906 - 1985)
Child	Edward Presley Tucker (1909 - 1910)
Child	Ruth Eleanor Tucker (1912 - 1912)
Child	Glen Martin Tucker (1914 - 1915)
Child	Ivan Oliver Tucker (1916 - 1978)
Child	Robert Franklin Tucker (1918 - 2008)
Child	Melvin Lloyd Tucker (1920 - 2009)
Child	Jane Evelyn Tucker (1924 - 2008)

Father	Edward A. Tucker (1851 - 1933)
Mother	Eliza Ellen Nelson (1851 - 1931)
Sibling	Maggie Mae Tucker (1878 - 1957)
Sibling	Bessie Tucker (1882 - 1882)
Sibling	Leona Belle Tucker (1884 - 1944)
Sibling	Frances Minerva Tucker (1890 - 1972)
Sibling	Walter Lloyd Tucker (1893 - 1958)

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