1925 obit-Mary (Moore) Tucker-Brattleboro,             Windha
Date:	5/6/98 6:19:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)

from the Brattleboro Reformer
Bratttleboro, Windham County, VT   1925

                MRS. HENRY TUCKER GIES FROM SHOCK
Was Wife of Former Long-Time Health Officer of Brattleboro--
Funeral in Franklin, N.H. Today

        Mrs. Mary Ellen (Moore) Tucker, 79, wife of Dr. Henry Tucker of
Franklin, N.H. to which place they moved from Brattleboro about three
years ago, died Saturday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Clifford, in Franklin as the result of a shock which she sustained two
weeks ago.

        Before goint to Franklin, Dr. and Mrs. Tucker had lived here 26 years
and at an earlier period they were residents here 14 years.  The house
on Grove street which was their home during their last residence here is
now the parsonage of All Souls church.

        Mrs. Tucker was president of the Vermont Woman Suffrage association in
1887-1888, was a charter member of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Brattleboro when it was organized in 1878 and served as its
president a number of times, holding the office the last time 16 years.
She also was a member of the First Baptist church, the Home Sunshine
society, the Sedgwich Woman's Relief corps and Brattleboro chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution.

        She was born in Lowden Ridge, N.H., Jan. 22, 1846, one of nine children
of Dr. David F. and Frances (Clifford) Moore.  She was the last
surviving member of her father's family.  Her father was the first
homeopathic physician in New Hampshire north of Concord.  She atended
school in Gilmanton and finished in Guilford academy in Laconia.  Her
marriage to Dr. Tucker took place in Lake Village, now Lakeport, N.H.
Oct. 25, 1870.  He was then a resident of Claremont, N.H.  They came to
Brattleboro in 1874 and in 1888 went to Laconia, returning here in
1896.  Dr. Tucker, who survives, was health officer here 14 1-2 years,
until h
the district health law went into effect July 1, 1919.  He served in the
Signal corps in the Civil war, in the Department of the Gulf.  He is a
graduate of the New York Homeopathic Medical college.

        Mrs. Tucker descended on her mother's side from David Clifford, who was
present at Burgoyne's surrender.

        The funeral was held this afternoon in Franklin, with burial in
Lakeport.
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Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
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