History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . ge Tucker, one of the most highly respected and best belovedmen of Hendricks county of a past generation, was born in Casey county,Kentucky, March 3, 1827, and died in Danville, in this county, on June 18,1892. He was the only son of Lee and Miranda (Durham) Tucker. LeeTucker was one of the first pioneers in Hendricks county, and was born inBedford county, Virginia, May 4, 1803. Lee Tucker was the eldest son andthird child of a family of ten children, born to Dandridge and Nancy (Set-tles) Tucker, who were also nat
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . ge Tucker, one of the most highly respected and best belovedmen of Hendricks county of a past generation, was born in Casey county,Kentucky, March 3, 1827, and died in Danville, in this county, on June 18,1892. He was the only son of Lee and Miranda (Durham) Tucker. LeeTucker was one of the first pioneers in Hendricks county, and was born inBedford county, Virginia, May 4, 1803. Lee Tucker was the eldest son andthird child of a family of ten children, born to Dandridge and Nancy (Set-tles) Tucker, who were also natives of Virginia. The father of DandridgeTucker was William, a soldier of the Revolutionary War for seven years. William Tucker, who grew up in Virginia, married Nancy Settles, andtheir son, Lee, became the father in turn of Dandridge, whose history isherein presented. Lee Tucker, the father of Dandridge. was eight years of age when hisparents moved from Virginia to Casey county, Kentucky. He was rearedto manhood on his fathers farm in Kentucky and married, on March 7, 1826,. DANDRIDGE TUCKER i HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 657 Miranda Durham, the daughter of Thomas and Frances (Moss) Durham,natives respectively of Virginia and Maryland. Miranda (Durham) Tuckerwas born December i6, 1805, in Mercer county, Kentucky, and after his mar-riage he and his wife continued to live on the old homestead farm until thefall of 1834. when, on account of his opposition to slavery, he came to In-diana, arriving in Eel River township, Hendricks county, on September 12,1834. He immediately entered one hundred and sixty acres of unimprovedland in this township, and afterwards entered one hundred and twenty acresmore. When Lee Tucker and his family came here in 1834, practically theonly cleared land in the township was that of Isaac Trotter, all the rest of thetownship being a dense wilderness. In 1826 Mr. Tucker and his wife joinedthe ^Methodist Episcopal church in Kentucky and soon afterwards he wa
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