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             Husband: Stiles TUCKER (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
                Born: 26 SEP 1809 (9)
             Married: MAR 1824
                Died: 19 JUL 1893 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (10)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (11 12 13)
              Father: Daniel TUCKER
              Mother: Laura CANDEE
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Abigail LEWIS (14 15 16 17 18)
                Born: 02 MAR 1810 (19)
                Died: 10 OCT 1891 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (20)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (21 22)
              Father: Aaron LEWIS
              Mother: Susan TREAT
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Mary Ann TUCKER (23 24 25 26 27 28 29)
                Born: 22 APR 1834 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (30)
                Died: 14 JAN 1916 in Seymour, New Haven, CT (31 32)
             Spouses: Horace HOLBROOK
02               (F): Susan A. TUCKER (33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40)
                Born: 20 JUN 1835 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (41)
                Died: 04 JAN 1917 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (42)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (43)
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Burton Stiles TUCKER (44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52)
                Born: SEP 1843 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (53)
                Died: 1912 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (54)
             Spouses: Mary E. WOOSTER

Footnotes

  1. 1840 Oxford Census.
  2. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  3. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  4. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  5. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  6. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    The next house is the Tucker homestead. The old weather beaten structure that has withstood the storms of a hundred and fifty years was the home of Stiles Tucker and his wife, Abigal (Lewis) Tucker, for over sixty years. The couple celebrated their golding wedding in March 1871,.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  7. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 51.
  8. John H. Treat, Genealogy of the Treat Family, 303.
  9. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  10. Ibid., 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  11. Ibid., 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  12. Record of the Returns made by Sextons of Cemeteries.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/sexton-reports/1891-3-bottom.html.]
  13. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4526.html.]
  14. 1850 Oxford Census.
  15. 1860 Oxford Census.
  16. 1870 Oxford Census.
  17. 1880 Oxford Census.
  18. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    The next house is the Tucker homestead. The old weather beaten structure that has withstood the storms of a hundred and fifty years was the home of Stiles Tucker and his wife, Abigal (Lewis) Tucker, for over sixty years. The couple celebrated their golding wedding in March 1871,.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  19. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  20. Ibid., 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  21. Ibid., 1.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan1.html.]
  22. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4527.html.]
  23. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.

    Mary Ann, their oldest child, married Horace Holbrook of Seymour, a carpenter.
    [
    <http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html>.]
  24. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 29.
  25. 1850 Oxford Census.
  26. 1860 Humphreyville Census.
  27. 1870 Seymour Census.
  28. 1880 Seymour Census.
  29. 1900 Seymour Census.
  30. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 18.
  31. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 51.
  32. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 18.
  33. 1850 Oxford Census.
  34. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Conn. School Teacher.
  35. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Keeping House.
  36. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Teacher.
    [Living w/ parents.]
  37. 1900 Oxford Census.
    School Teacher.
    [Living w/ brother Burton.]
  38. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Own Income.
  39. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 8.
    The next place we come to is the Red Oak schoolhouse. The old schoolhouse was built about a hundred years ago and was used for a schoolhouse until about five years ago when it was abandoned and a new and imposing structure was erected. Miss Susan tucker taught in the old schoolhouse many years, walking to and from her home each day in all kinds of weather, in rain, snow, and hail. She was always "on the job."
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-08.html.]
  40. Ibid., Chapter 1.
    Miss Susan Tucker, the second daughter, was born in 1840 and has followed the occupation of school teaching during her long and eventful life. She has retired from the arduous duties of teaching and is resting on her hard-earned laurels.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  41. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6876.html.]
  42. Ibid.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6876.html.]
  43. Ibid.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6876.html.]
  44. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #141.
    ... built in 1869 by Horace Holbrook of Seymour for Burton Stiles Tucker.
    [ Chestnut Tree Hill Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  45. 1875 Oxford Agricultural Society ((http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/oxford-ag-society.html)), 15.
    Chairman of Committee.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/1875_15.html.]
  46. 1850 Oxford Census.
  47. 1860 Oxford Census.
  48. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  49. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
    [next to parents.]
  50. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  51. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Farmer / Own farm.
  52. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    Burton S. Tucker, the youngest child and only son of Stiles and Abigail tucker, was born in 1844 and lived all his long and checkered life at the old homestead. He married Mary Wooster of Oxford and six children were born to them, five sons and one daughter.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  53. 1900 Oxford Census.
  54. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 3.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan3.html.]

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