Tucker, Ray Dean

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• Reference Number: TUCK.R003
• Military Service: Korean War, Private First Class, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army
• Military Service: World War II, United States Army

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Military Service:
In November 1945 he entered the Armed Services and was honorably discharged in 1946.

Military Service:
Private First Class Tucker was a member of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 4, 1951. Private First Class Tucker was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.

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• Reference Number: TUCK.C006
• _FGRAVE: 41101251

Corta married Foster, Ethel May in 1919. Ethel was born in 1892 in Oregon; died in 1977; was buried in Noble Prairie Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: FOST.E003

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• Reference Number: TUCK.A003

Abraham married Maglone, Elsie Elizabeth 'Elsa' on 28 Nov 1889. Elsie (daughter of Maglone, James and Henson, Mary 'Polly') was born in Oct 1866 in Noble, Richland County, Illinois; died on 8 May 1953 in Noble, Richland County, Illinois; was buried on 11 May 1953 in Hanna Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: MAGL.E003
• _FGRAVE: 25165287

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ELSIE ELIZABETH MAGLONE was born in October 1863 in Illinois, the daughter of James Maglone and Mary Henson. The family had been living in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA, and most of the older children of the family were born there. But sometime before the 1870 census they moved to Hoosier Township, Clay County, Illinois, USA. Elsie might have been born in either place. She had 8 older siblings -- Mary, Martha, James, Thomas, Margaret, Lucinda, Felix, and Rachel -- and one younger sister -- Emily (or Emma) Maglone. After her mother's death (sometime before 1870), her father remarried and Elsie gained two more younger half-brothers, John and William.

On 22 January 1885, in Noble, Richland County, Illinois, USA, Elsie married her first husband, Hugh M. Tucker, son of James Tucker and Frances Toliver. They had one daughter together, Laura E. Tucker, born 07 March 1887 in Noble, Illinois, and then Hugh died. His exact death date and burial location is unknown.

On 28 November 1889, Elsie married again -- this time to Hugh's first cousin, Abraham Douglas Tucker, son of Joseph Tucker and Nancy Bedwell. Abe had previously been married to Elsie's first cousin, Clara "Carrie" Dickey (daughter of James Dickey and Mary Maglone), but Carrie also died young, leaving Abe a widower with a young daughter to raise, Julia May Tucker. The two daughters, May and Laura, were double second cousins to each other, but now they became step-sisters in the new merged family. Abe and Elsie had a third child together, a son, Corta Emery Tucker, born in 1893.

Abe was a farmer, and then later a clerk. They continued to live in Noble, Illinois. Their children all married. Laura married a minister, Charles Ealy, in 1906, and had three sons, Abraham, Charles (died in infancy) and Marvin. In 1909, May married Dan Hemrich; they continued to live in the area but had no children themselves. Finally, in 1919, Corta married Ethel Foster, and they also had three sons: Donald, Douglas, and Ray Dean (died in 1951).

Abe died on 29 March 1937 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. He was 80 years old. He was buried in Hanna Cemetery on the first of April, 1937. Elsie lived as a widow for another 16 years, and then she died herself in Noble, Illinois, on the 8th of May, 1953. She was buried in Hanna Cemetery, next to her second husband, Abraham Tucker, on 11 May 1953.

Her obituary was printed in the Olney Advocate on Thursday, 14 May 1953:

Mrs. Elsie E. Tucker, age 86, the widow of A.D. Tucker, passed away Friday at her home in Noble.

She is survived by three children: Corta Tucker, Mrs. Laura Ealey and Mrs. May Hemrich, all of Noble. There are four grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday in the Noble Christian church with Rev. Charles Railsbeck in charge. Burial was in the Hanna cemetery, northwest of Noble.

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• Reference Number: TUCK.J005

Joseph married Bedwell, Nancy in 1848 in Richland County, Illinois. Nancy was born in 1835 in Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: BEDW.N001

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Reference Number: MAGL.J001

Notes:

Notes from Bill & Barb Maglone:

"This James Maglone and Mary (Henson) Maglone is where Bill Maglone and most of you come from. We also have a copy of their marriage licens. James and Sarah were married in the residence of Allen Williams."

Birth:
Barb Maglone's research says he was born in 1826
Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 for daughter, Rachel Maddox, shows he was born in Richland County, Illinois

James married Henson, Mary 'Polly'. Mary was born in 1833 in Indiana; died in 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: HENS.M001

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Birth:
Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 for daughter, Rachel Maddox, shows she was born in Richland County, Illinois

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Married:
Early Marriages of Richland County, Illinois 1840-1899 Volume 1, page 8 says they were married on December 7, 1848 by William Shore, J.P.