Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of DAVID TUCKWILLER

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 294-295

DAVID TUCKWILLER.

The late David Tuckwiller departed this life very suddenly on May 24, 1917. 
He belonged to one of Greenbrier's oldest families, was a scientific farmer, 
and known as an honorable upright citizen of the general commonwealth.  It 
was with unfeigned sorrow the people generally heard of his death.
The Tuckwiller family is of Bavarian descent. John Tuckwiller, the pioneer, 
immigrated to America in Colonial times and settled upon a large tract of 
land in Greenbrier county, with the homestead in Rich Hollow. He raised a 
large family. There were three sons, David, Daniel and John, and the 
daughter, who married Frederick Hedrick, Joseph Hedrick, Abram Coffman, Moses 
Dwyer, John Fleshman, John Matics, John Wilson and Samuel Perkins.
David Tuckwiller, son of John, married Sallie Linson, who was born November 
21, 1793. Their children were Rebecca, wife of Alex. Rader, born March, 1812; 
Samuel, born June 12, 1815; Caroline, wife of John T. Johnson, born May 28, 
1817; Evaline, wife of J. J. Livesay, born October 28, 1819; Catherine, wife 
of Wallace Rader, born November 26, 1821; Nancy, married Mr. Hedrick, and 
Eliza Jane and Martha, who died in girlhood. He was able to give each of his 
daughters a farm. From this source can be traced the financial wealth of 
several old and important families in this part of the State. He built the 
residence now occupied by Mrs. A. J. Wilson, in 1828. Not long afterward he 
built the house owned and occupied by her brother David.
Samuel Tuckwiller, the only son of David, married Elizabeth Jane Slater, and 
from that union were born two children, David, the subject of this sketch, 
born August 15, 1857, and Sarah Bettie, born April 10, 1860.
David Tuckwiller was married October 6, 1880. His wife, Lucy Rachel, the 
daughter of James Franklin Watts, was born October 6, 1861. She is the mother 
of the present family of nine children. Samuel Slater, born September 14, 
1881; Frank Watts, born April 5, 1884; Jesse Ray, December 7, 1886; Edward 
Hill, September 16, 1890; Eugene Anthony, December 14, 1891; Ross Homan, 
March 6, 1895; Rachel, March 30, 1898; Elizabeth, October 24, 1900, died 
December 12, 1902; Pat Alexander, April 13, 1905.
Of these children, four are married, viz~: Slater married Ada Knapp, daughter 
of Bernard Knapp, of Lewisburg; Frank married Mary Dotson, daughter of W. R. 
Dotson, of Lewisburg; Ray married Lucy Boggs, daughter of Rev. Boggs, of New 
Martinsville, W. Va.; Eugene married Margaret Phillips, daughter of F. W. 
Phillips, of Des Moines, Iowa.
The late Mr. Tuckwiller owned an extensive tract of land, which he kept 
intensively cultivated.  He was not only a successful farmer, orderly and 
methodical in all his work, but as a Christian gentleman he bore a reputable 
official relationship with the Methodist Episcopal church, South, to which he 
gave regular and liberal support.  With that parental care due to the family 
hearthstone, and to influences afterwards eminating from future firesides, 
for which he became responsible, Mr. Tuckwiller gave his children a good 
education, the seven oldest having graduated from the State University at 
Morgantown.