Sumner County Biographies
"Portrait and Biographical Album of Sumner County"
Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1890
TRUMAN TUCKER. The lives perhaps of
the majority of men pass on apparently like
the smooth current of a river and those who
only observe the surface know little of what lies
beneath or how has been brought about the apparently
smooth current. Those who have perhaps
struggled under the greatest difficulties, have
been the most quiet under all circumstances; but
still have achieved frequently greater results than
their more-noisy brethren. The subject of this notice has
builded well as far as character and disposition goes and
is a man held in the highest respect
in his community. Upon his well-cultivated farm
of one hundred and thirty acres he has lived
for a period of seventeen years, developing a good
homestead and at the same time establishing himself upon a
firm basis as a man and a citizen. He
lives unpretentiously, yet comfortably, his home
lying on section 13, Avon Township.
A native of Meade County, Ky., Mr. Tucker was
born August 19, 1854, and when quite young was
taken by his parents to Missouri where his father
died when he was a lad of eight years. The family
sojourned five years in that State and at a time
when the climate was very unhealthy, and after
the death of her husband the widowed mother returned with her children to the Blue Grass State
where Truman was reared to manhood. They
lived upon a farm and young Tucker acquired his
education in the common schools. Leaving his
native State he repaired to Henderson County, Ill.,
where he prosecuted farming eight years, and in
1869, crossing the Mississippi, established himself
in Labette County, this State.
In Labette County Mr. Tucker was married
May 1, 1870, to Miss Calsina George, a native of
Marion County, Iowa, and born March 26, 1850.
The young people commenced their wedded life
together on a farm in that county, sojourning there
until 1872. Their next removal was to this county
when they settled upon their present farm in Avon
Township. In the meantime during the Civil War
and while a resident of Henderson County, Ill.,
Mr. Tucker enlisted as a Union soldier, in Company
I, Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, and served six
months during the last part of the war. He cast
his first Presidential vote for Lincoln, and is a
stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He and his estimable wife are active
members of the Christian Church, endeavoring to
carry out their professions in their daily lives.
They have made many friends during their long
sojourn in this county and have welcomed under
their hospitable roof its best citizens. Genial and
companionable they are ever ready to extend a
helping hand to those less fortunate than themselves
and are possessed of that good breeding which is
recognized at once in their intercourse not only
with friends but with strangers. They are full
worthy of representation among the better classes
of people of this county. The mother of our subject died in Hancock County, Ill., in May, 1886.
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