1. Stephen was widowed by 1880, having lost his first wife (a sister of Patrick P. Dunbar) in childbirth.
2. He married again about 1881 to Artellia C. Pryor, a young girl that had lost both her parents.
3. They reared eight children, but family problems developed after the birth of their last son, Leslie, and they separated and eventually divorced.
4. A few years later, Steve moved back home...he living in one end of the house and Artellia living on the opposite end. Yet, affection had to have been there because when Steve became ill, Artellia nursed him until his death.
5. From Bertha Tucker Jones records...
1. John Epps Tucker was killed in the Civil War...(Missouri)...
2. Sources: Bertha Tucker Jones Records...
Newt Tucker's Family Bible...
Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Censuses,
Verbal History,
Betty Byrd Hickman,
Donna (Morgan) Tucker
Avnee Philhours
Newt Tucker's Grandchildren
Texas Death Certificates
1. Woodrow is a watermellon farmer.
2. He had heart by-pass surgery about 1993 and was doing fine as of a meeting with him by Richard D. Jones on 9 Oct 1995...
1. Question: Was Mattie first married to a Mr. Deeson?
William "Newt" Newton Asbury TUCKER
1. Newt & Louise moved to Tarrant County, Texas where their second son was born.
2. They returned to Baxter County, Arkansas and in July, just two months after their second son was born, they lost their oldest little boy.
3. So far it is unknown when they went back to Texas, but, they went by covered wagon between 1900-1910 and settled in Plymouth, Collingsworth, Texas.