Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Rucker, Andrew W. 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ANDREW W. RUCKER, farmer, of Elmore, Elmore county, was born in what was then
Autauga county in 1844, the son of John and Emily (Williams) Rucker, natives of
Bibb county, Ala., but located in Elmore county in 1842. John Rucker was a
planter of moderate means. He was a Mason in good standing, and was sheriff of
his county for two terms. His father, Burton Rucker, was a Virginian, connected
with the distinguished Virginia family of that name. He came to Alabama from
Georgia in 1818, settling in Bibb county, where he died. He was a planter and
tanner. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Rucker was Joseph Williams, who was a
Georgian by birth, removed to Bibb county at a very early day, and suffered
untold hardships during the pioneer period of the state's history. He was in the
war of 1812, and died about 1870, and his wife a year later. He and his wife
were Baptists. The father of Andrew Rucker is seventy years old and his mother
about sixty-eight. They were the parents of fifteen children, six sons and nine
daughters. Mr. Rucker in his youth received a country school education. Early in
1862, when but seventeen years of age, he went into the Confederate service in
company A, Fifty-sixth Alabama cavalry, operating in the northern Mississippi,
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia campaigns. He was in many general engagements and
skirmishes, but was never captured or wounded, but, nevertheless, was a gallant
soldier. After the war he farmed. On January 11, 1866, he married Mary Jane,
daughter of G. W. and Mary E. Benson, natives of South Carolina, but early
settlers of Alabama. He was a prominent man of his day, having been justice of
the peace, tax assessor, clerk of the circuit court and then probate judge of
Elmore county. Mrs. Andrew Rucker was born in Elmore county, and is the mother
of ten children, two of whom died in infancy, and eight of whom are living as
follows: Anson, William A., Mary E., wife of E. D. Roger; Myra, Thomas J., Ross,
Sadie and Maurice. Mr. Rucker owns about 320 acres of land in Elmore county. He
has been tax assessor and collector of the county. He is a member of the
Hampden-Sidney lodge, No. 67, F. & A. M., and is active in state and county
politics. His wife is a Methodist Protestant.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 946, 949
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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