Biography of Marion Tucker, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Marion J. Tucker, merchant and postmaster at Greenway, Clay County, Ark., was
born in Nashville, Tenn., November 14, 1844, his father, Col. Thomas J. Tucker,
being a native of Virginia. Upon remaining in the "Old Dominion" until a young
man, the father went to Tennessee, where he was married to Nancy Nance, of that
State, and after residing in Nashville, Tenn., for several years, moved to
Haywood County, Tenn., where he became the owner of a plantation, and lived
until his death, his wife having died some time before. He was a colonel of
militia, and was a prominent and well-known man in his day. Marion J. Tucker
grew to manhood in Haywood County, and when the war broke out, in 1861, he
enlisted in the Confederate service, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, and served until
captured at Chickamauga, and was held a prisoner of war until the close of the
conflict, most of the time at Indianapolis. He was at first in Nashville, Tenn.,
and was placed with 115 others in the top story of the Maxwell House, which
broke through with them, and he and the others were carried clear to the
basement. Mr. Tucker was badly wounded, and had one leg and an arm broken. After
remaining in the hospital until convalescent, he was sent to Indianapolis. He
was in the engagements at Belmont, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro and several others.
After the close of the war he returned to his home in West Tennessee, and was
married, in Lauderdale County, January 9, 1866, to Mary Jane Chambers, a native
of Tennessee and a daughter of Thomas Chambers. After following mercantile
pursuits in Alamo. Tenn., for one year, he, in 1867, moved to Lauderdale County,
there being engaged in farming up to 1874. when he sold out and located in Clay
County. Ark., purchasing a farm and engaging in tilling the soil, also following
the occupation of merchandising. He established a postoffice at that point, of
which he became postmaster in 1878. He continued this business until 1887, then
gave the management of affairs into the hands of his son, and moved to Greenway,
where he built a store and put in a stock of general merchandise. He has a
general stock of goods, and in connection with this also owns and conducts a
livery barn. Since September, 1888, he has held the office of postmaster of
Greenway. He is a Master Mason, and is a deacon in the Missionary Baptist
Church. January 20. 1889, his wife died, leaving him with a family of nine
children: Edgar M., Columbus, Laura. Gaston, Wittie, Clyde, Lily, Luther and
Lola. Mr. Tucker owns two farms in Clay County, amounting to about 300 acres,
and has some 175 acres under cultivation. He married his present wife, a Mrs.
Annie Gault, May 12, 1889. She was born in Illinois.