Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Tucker, James K. - April 13, 1919
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871 - current,
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Death of James K. Tucker. - James K. Tucker, for many years a resident of 
this parish, died at his home in Baton Rouge, where he had resided for the 
past eight years, Sunday, April 13. He was born near Milan, Tennessee, 
January 13, 1845, and was 74 years and three months old at the time of his 
death. Deceased entered the Confederate army when only 19 years of age and 
served under Gen. N. B. Forrest. He was eriously (sic) wounded in the leg in 
a battle near Atlanta, Ga., and remained disabled from this wound in that 
city for over one year, and did not return home until 1866, long after the 
close of the war. He came to Louisiana in 1871, as an employee of John 
Burnside. He was assistant manager of the Clark plantation for four years. 
In 1876-77, he was manager of the Donaldson plantation. On January 1, 1878, 
he was transferred to the Clark as manager, where he remained for eleven 
years. He was promoted to the management of the Armant and Valcour Aime 
plantations in St. James, and remained there for 22 years, resigning January 
1, 1911, when he removed to Baton Rouge to engage in farming and cattle 
raising, which industries he pursued to the time of his death He lived 17 
years in Ascension, 22 years in St. James and 8 in Baton Rouge, making a 
total of 47 years in Louisiana. He was one of the best informed and best 
posted sugar planters in the state. Of a quiet disposition, but possessed of 
the highest honor and strictest integrity and respected and esteemed by all 
who knew him.

He was married Dec. 15, 1876, to Miss Olivia J. McFall, and their union was 
blessed with six children, the eldest boy, Sidney, died in 1884 at the age 
of seven years. He is survived by his widow, who is an invalid, and five 
children, as follows: Dr. J. Arthur Tucker of Baton Rouge; Curtis Tucker of 
St. Patrick; Mrs. J. B. Pittmann, Mrs. Myrick Carstorphen and Mrs. Fred 
Hurst and several grand-children. The funeral took place in the Capital city 
last Monday, and the remains were laid to rest in Magnolia cemetery at that 
place. The pall-bearers were: Horace Wilkinson, W. C. Whitaker, Dan Morgan, 
Myrick Carstorphen, John B. Pittman and his two sons, Arthur and Curtis. 
Peace to his ashes!


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