Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....John A. Tucker 1901
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(Cedartown Standard, April 18, 1901) 
The home of Capt. John A. Tucker, at Lake Creek, was destroyed by fire early 
yesterday morning about 3:30 o,clock, and before the house was fully consumed 
Captain Tucker dropped dead suddenly. The fire broke out at the kitchen end of 
the building and is supposed to have caught from the usually defective flue. 
The neighbors responded promptly to the alarm, and by their help nearly all the 
furniture and household goods were taken from the house and placed nearby on 
the ground. The heat grew so intense as the dry house burned that it was 
thought best to move the furniture further still from the conflagration, and 
scarcely had the suggestion been made and the work of removal begun than the 
fatal stroke cut down the man whose house was then going up in fire and smoke. 
The excitement and heat of the burning building overcame the victim of the 
fire, and to the horror of all, the lifeless form of their neighbor and friend 
lay prostrate before the excited crowd. The shocking occurrence has cast a 
gloom over the entire community, no such calamity ever visiting that excellent 
neighborhood in its previous history. The remains of Captain Tucker were laid 
to rest yesterday afternoon in the old family burying ground on the Tucker 
place, north of Lake Creek on the Rome road, a large crowd of friends and 
relatives witnessing the sad interment. Captain Tucker was a well known citizen 
of that community, having lived there for many years, and was over fifty years 
old. He was a faithful Confederate soldier, and always prided himself on his 
war record. He was Justice of the Peace in that district, and was always 
prominent in political and county affairs. His numerous friends throughout the 
county will be pained to learn of his sudden death. (Cedartown Standard, April 
18, 1901) 


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