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Submitted: 12/30/20 • Approved: 1/14/21 • Last Updated: 1/17/21 • R374548-G374548-S3
October 10, 1869, Lee County, Texas - April 19, 1940, Jones Prairie, Milam County, Texas
*Obituary
MRS. ANNIE E. TUCKER DIES EARLY FRIDAY
Mrs. Annie E. Tucker, 70 died Friday morning at her home near Jones Prairie.
For the past four years, Mrs. Tucker had been in critical health and during the past five weeks her condition had grown steadily worse.
Mrs. Tucker was born in Lee County in 1870. When she was twenty years of age, the family moved to Thorndale where they lived for twenty-eight years. She was married at Thorndale and moved to Jones Prairie with her husband where they lived for the past twenty-two years. She was the mother of five children, three boys and two girls.
She is survived by her husband and the children are as follows: Emma Tucker of Jones Prairie who lived with her mother, Julius and William Tucker both of Corsicana, Mrs. Mamie Worley of Thorndale, and Theo Tucker of Jones Prairie. Also surviving are fourteen grand children and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held in Thorndale cemetery Saturday.
The Cameron Herald(Cameron, Texas), 25 Apr 1940, Thu, Page 8
Family Members
Parents
Marcus Lafayette Lay
1838-1915
Elizabeth Debose Pike Lay
1844-1903
Spouse
William Thomas Tucker
1864-1948
Siblings
Henry Nolan Lay
1861-1933
Minnie Iola Lay Thomas
1878-1959
Arthur Ross Lay
1884-1964
Children
Emma Ann Tucker Tucker
1889-1974
Julius Narwuis Tucker
1892-1943
William Thomas Tucker
1896-1951
Theo Ross Tucker
1904-1972
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