from “The History of Montgomery County,” 1903
STARKEY H. TUCKER - The subject of this person I mention is well
known among the farmers of Rutland township, where he has resided since
1877, the year he made settlement in Montgomery county. His homestead
is in section 10, township 33, range 14, and he is the owner of three
hundred and twenty acres of land.
Mr. Tucker is one of the progressive tillers of the soil and,
while he began his operations on a rudely-improved quarter section, his
success has put him in possession of a tract twice that area,
substantially improved and under a good state of cultivation. Farming
in Kansas has required the same tenacious industry, as farming in
Kentucky, in Taylor county in which state our subject was born, July
10, 1846.
He came to his majority in his native heath and acquired the
rudiments of a common school education. He was twenty-six years of age
when he located in Hart county, Kentucky, and twenty-nine years of age
when he became a citizen of Montgomery county, Kansas. In this county
he settled, by purchase, the tract entered by Jonathan Welden and
passed, by deed, to Andrew Stamp, whose title came to Mr. Tucker.
The Tuckers of this strain were, originally, from Virginia.
Edwin Tucker, father of Starkey H., was born in the "Old Dominion" and
accompanied his parents into Taylor county, Kentucky, when a boy. He
was one of the following family: Barnard, John, Isaac, Nancy,
Jefferson, Mrs. Mary A. Wise, Eliza and Edwin. The last named came to
maturity as a farm boy and married Diana Hays, of Marion county,
Kentucky, a daughter of Starkey and Nancy (Wilkerson) Hays, born in
Virginia. Four sons were born as a result of this marriage, viz:
Willis, of Taylor county, Kentucky; Starkey H., of this notice;
William, of Oklahoma City, and Norman, of Taylor county, Kentucky.
Starkey H. Tucker married Lucibra Smith in his native state. She
was a daughter of Richard and Rachel (Hays) Smith, and is the mother of
seven children, namely: Ida, Edwin, William, Bertha Burgey, of Montana;
Richard, Otto and Orville.
Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are members of the Southern Methodist church
and have reared their large family to men and women of usefulness and
honor.
