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- JULIA MAY TUCKER was born in July of either 1884 or 1885 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. She was the daughter of Abraham Douglas Tucker and Clara Caroline Dickey. May's mother Carrie died in 1885 (according to her gravestone)), perhaps when May was born, or perhaps at the birth of another child that did not survive. On 28 Nov 1889, a few years after Carrie's death, May's father Abe married again, to Carrie's first cousin, Elsie Elizabeth Maglone. Elsie had previouslly been married to Abe's first cousin, Hugh M. Tucker, but he also died young and Elsie was left a young widow with a daughter to raise, Laura 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. They each shared a half-brother when their younger sibling, Corta Emery Tucker, was born in 1893.
May grew up in Noble Township, but when she married Daniel Windle Hemrich on 16 June 1909, in Richland County, Illinois, she moved to nearby Pixley Township, Clay County, Illinois, where Dan worked as a farm laborer. Dan was born 02 Jan 1884 in Jasper County, Illinois, USA, the son of of John W. Hemrich and Josephine Negley. He had previously been married to Pearl Hastler in 1905, but had no children from that union. It is likely that Pearl died young.
After living in Pixley Township for a while, the couple then moved to Noble Village (1920 and 1930 censuses), where Dan worked as a garage machinist and mechanic. Although Dan and May had no children of their own, they helped to raise Dan's niecce Evalena Schnepper after her mother's early death in 1921. By 1942, the couple were back in Pixley Township in Clay County, Illinois and it was there that Dan died on the 25th of October, 1946. He was buried in Hanna Cemetery in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois two days later. Thirteen years later, in 1959, May also died, and was buried next to her husband
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1885 - 1959 (73 years)
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