A good way to organize your research is through making an outline or a chronological chart of your ancestor. I guess it is sort of a resume. Here is an outine of Joseph Magruder Tucker based on a biography written by my grandmother, Frances Tucker Lee.

BORN- 14 June 1883 in Ripley, Lauderdale, Tennessee on Fain Springs Road

PARENTS- William Tucker who was 43 years old and from Virginia and Annie Elizabeth Watkins, 31, from Murfreesboro

SIBLINGS- He had two older brothers and two older sisters Will, Harry (Wat?), Daisy, and Annie.

MOVED- Tucker Hill in 1884

SIBLINGS- Two more brothers Russell Aubrey and John Randolph, mother became ill, maternal grandmother and uncles moved to home

SCHOOL- Elementary in Ripley then went to Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennesse. Mother wanted him to be a minister and a gentleman so he was sent to Bethel College where he was a member of a Fraternity.

DATING- Courted several girls and began to court Ida Pope Majors who was a sheltered girl whose family came from Georgia. Her father asked when Joe was ever going to get married.

MARRIAGE- Ida Pope Majors who was 21, Joe was 23. They had 6 children, Joe Jr, Landrum, Marshall, John, Matthew, and Frances.

WORK- Mail Carrier Ripley, TN

Farming, Ashdown , Arkansas

Clerk Watkins Tucker Hardware Store

Owner- Lumber Business and a Car Lot

CHURCH- Deacon of Ripley Baptist Church

SERVICE- President, City Club

Executive Board, Hospital for Crippled Adults

Treasurer- Lauderdale County Red Cross

Mayor- Ripley, Tennessee 6 years

Alderman- Ripley, Tennessee 4 years

Chairman- War Fund Drive

AWARDS- “Silver Beaver” Boy Scouts of America

ILLNESS- heart disease

TRAITS- Brown eyes, dark hair, playful, gentle, sense of humor, prankster, servant of his community, loved card games

NOTES- Here you can put references to documents like the US Census and Newspaper Articles and what you have of his like pictures and other items. We have several pictures of him and some newpaper clippings. If you have furniture or heirlooms take pictures of them and say who has them. You collect of these items and put it in your genealogy notebook on “Tuckers of Ripley, TN” for example.

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