George Redman Tucker Photograph

Collection — Folder: 1 (SC 4-5)

Identifier: 1989-011

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: circa 1880

Creator

Kincannon, Kathryn Watson (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The George Redman Tucker Photograph has no restrictions and is available for research. If you are interested in researching the materials, please contact the Dickinson Research Center to make an appointment.

Conditions Governing Use

The George Redman Tucker Photograph is the property of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Materials, even if owned by the NCWHM, may be protected under third party copyright. It is the patron’s responsibility to research and secure any such additional copyright and pay any required fees or royalties. It is not the intention of the NCWHM to impede upon any third party rights, and the NCWHM cannot be held responsible if the patron is involved in legal action due to violation of third party copyright claims.

Biographical / Historical

George Redman Tucker was the son of William M. and Catherine Tucker of Franklin county, Arkansas. He was born on August 19, 1855, in Arkansas. From various genealogical sources information has been gathered about his life, though it is sporadic and largely undocumented in primary resources. Tucker had been in Texas during the Civil War, but was back in Franklin county, Arkansas by the time of the 1870 census, listed with his sister, Martha Tucker Knox and brother-in-law, William Alvin Knox. By 1880 he was in Montague county, Texas as a peace officer. He moved to Oklahoma around 1900 as a deputy marshal and later sheriff of Waurika, Oklahoma. He possibly had two children and may have been married twice. He is listed on the 1880 census for Montague county, Texas. He is not listed in the 1890 census. He was in Oklahoma, mostly in Carter and Jefferson counties by 1900 and later.

George Redman Tucker died at the age of 89 in Ardmore, Carter county, Oklahoma, on January 21, 1945, and was buried in Ardmore on January 23. His son, Bert Tucker, informed the county and signed his father’s death certificate.