William Henry Dollar and Jennie Sparks had 9 children, 8 of
whom lived to adulthood. They had five
sons and 3 daughters. The oldest
daughter, Mary Jane Dollar was born 14 Feb 1845 in Ashe Co., NC and she died 20
Jul 1876 in Ashe Co., NC a few months after the birth of her youngest son. Mary Jane married Moses Tucker on 17 Nov
1869. Within a year, their first son,
Worth, was born and then Loretta, Florence and Lillard Tucker soon
followed. The youngest Dillard was born
on 6 Mar 1876 and he died three weeks later on 28 Mar 1876. After the birth of her youngest child, Mary
Jane was in poor health after the birth and death of her youngest child. Mary Jane’s sister, Emeline, came to live
with them and help take care of the children while she was sick. As my great grandmother told the story, Mary
Jane died and they buried her and he then married Emeline on the way home,
because it wasn’t proper to have an unmarried woman in the house. It is obvious that this story was wrong,
because Moses Tucker married Emeline on 26 Oct 1876 several months after Mary
Jane’s death. However, I imagine that it
was a story told my great grandmother’s grandfather who raised her. I’m not sure that Monroe Dollar was happy
that his younger sister married her sister’s widower so quickly after he sister’s
death. There were four small children
that needed to be taken care of and I’m sure Moses had to spend most of his
time working to support his family.
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| Mary Jane Dollar |
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| Emeline Dollar |
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| Moses Tucker |
Emeline Dollar was only a year younger than her sister and
30 years old when she married Moses Tucker.
They started having children very quickly and by the time of November
1890, she had had six more children. A
few years later, Moses Tucker and Emeline met Mormon missionaries and were
converted and soon left for Utah. I
believe that they left sometime around 1892.
That must have been quite a trek from North Carolina to Utah in the
early 1890’s. I have to wonder if trains
were available or if they traveled by wagon.
The trip was probably completed on both modes of transportation. Moses and Emeline settled in Cleveland, Emery
Co., UT. Emeline’s mother died in 1893
and soon after her father traveled out from North Carolina to join them in
Utah. I’m told that he, too, converted
to Mormonism before he died on 31 August, 1895.
Moses Tucker didn’t live to be all that old of a man – I’m
told that he died as the result of a horse who ran over him on 16 December
1905. By the time that he died, all of
his oldest children were married with families of their own. Only the youngest four were unmarried. Emeline was in Emery Co., UT in 1920 and Salt
Lake City, UT in 1930. By the time of
her death in 1938, she was living in Marley, Lincoln Co., ID. I assume that she must have moved in with her
children and was probably living with her oldest daughter, Ida, when she
died. Emeline lived to be the longest
lived of her siblings at 92 years of age.
(Her brother James Madison Dollar lived to be 83 years old.) With exception of James Madison Dollar and
John Wesley Dollar - she had no living siblings after 1908.
It is interesting to me to note that my great grandmother
came out west in 1910 and lived many miles away from her aunt without knowing
her location. I’m sure that their
conversion and trek out west was fraught with many hardships. It is never easy to start a new life in a new
place….nor is it easy to be considered outsiders in a place that you might
consider home. I suspect that is the
reason why many of those who converted to Mormonism moved to Utah and Idaho –
there were a lot of converts who had also made the move. I understand that a few of the Tucker
children went back to Ashe Co., NC to visit family and their ancestral
home. I have to say that a large chunk
of the descendants of William Henry Dollar and Jane Sparks are descendants of
Moses Tucker through his marriages to the two Dollar sisters.
Descendants of Moses Tucker
Generation No. 1
1. MOSES2
TUCKER
(BENJAMIN1)
was born 14 Feb 1847 in Yadkin Co., NC, and died 16 Dec 1905 in Cleveland,
Emery Co., UT. He married (1) MARY
JANE DOLLAR
17 Nov 1869 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of WILLIAM
DOLLAR and JANE SPARKS. She was born 14 Feb 1845 in Ashe Co., NC, and
died 20 Jul 1876 in Ashe Co., NC. He
married (2) EMELINE DOLLAR
26 Oct 1876 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of WILLIAM
DOLLAR and JANE SPARKS. She was born Mar 1846 in North Fork, Ashe
Co., NC, and died 15 Jun 1938 in Marley, Lincoln Co., ID.
Children
of MOSES TUCKER
and MARY DOLLAR
are:
i. WORTH3
TUCKER, b. 30 Nov 1870, Ashe Co., NC; d. 05 Nov
1927, Livingston, Park Co., MT; m. FLORENCE
ABBY PULSIPHER,
22 May 1895, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT; b. 08 Dec 1878, Windsor Castle, Mohave
Co., AZ; d. 11 Apr 1951, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT.
ii. LORETTA
TUCKER, b. 12 Jan 1872, Washington Co., VA; d.
03 Mar 1966, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA; m. MARTIN
PETER JOHNSON,
29 Dec 1896, Price, Carbon Co., UT; b. 06 Oct 1871, Levan, Juab Co., UT; d. 06
Mar 1948, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA.
iii. FLORENCE
TUCKER, b. 29 Sep 1873, Ashe Co., NC; d. 11 Jun
1939; m. NEILS MATHIS
JOHNSON, 06 Dec 1899, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT;
b. 27 Sep 1875, Spring City, Sanpete Co., UT; d. 17 Sep 1932.
iv. LILLARD
TUCKER, b. 25 Dec 1874, Ashe Co., NC; d. 08 Feb
1919, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT; m. MARTHA
MAPLE ATWOOD,
05 Apr 1905, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; b. 09 Apr 1888, Salem, Salt
Lake Co., UT; d. 08 Sep 1972.
v. DILLARD
TUCKER, b. 06 Mar 1876, Ashe Co., NC; d. 28 Mar
1876, Ashe Co., NC.
Children
of MOSES TUCKER
and EMELINE DOLLAR
are:
vi. IDA3
TUCKER, b. 07 Jun 1878, Big Branch, Ashe Co.,
NC; d. 21 Feb 1941, Marley, Lincoln Co., ID; m. LOUIS
JACOB JOHNSON,
27 Dec 1897, Price, Carbon Co., UT; b. 06 Oct 1873, Spring City, Sanpete Co.,
UT; d. 03 Dec 1952.
vii. BENJAMIN
TUCKER, b. 23 Apr 1881, Ashe Co., NC; d. 26 Oct
1906, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT; m. FLORENCE
WARD, 25 Nov 1901, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT;
b. 27 Mar 1882, Staffordshire, England; d. 15 Nov 1968, Cleveland, Emery Co.,
UT.
viii. MOSES
TUCKER, JR.,
b. 07 Nov 1883, Ashe Co., NC; d. 19 Jan 1977, Cleveland, Emery Co., UT; m. FLORENCE
WARD, 23 Jun 1908, Price, Carbon Co., Utah;
b. 27 Mar 1882, Staffordshire, England; d. 15 Nov 1968, Cleveland, Emery Co.,
UT.
ix. WILLIAM
TUCKER, b. 19 Jan 1886, Ashe Co., NC; d. 27 Jan
1983, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; m. (1) KATIE
SOPHIA RILEY,
19 Nov 1908, Huntington, Emery Co., UT; b. 29 Sep 1890, Huntington, Emery Co.,
UT; d. 23 Feb 1913, Huntington, Emery Co., UT; m. (2) EFFIE
ARVILLA HANSON,
24 Dec 1934, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; b. 13 Oct 1905, Cleveland,
Emery Co., UT; d. 24 May 1991, Holladay, Salt Lake Co., UT.
x. JENNIE
TUCKER, b. 17 Apr 1888, Ashe Co., NC; d. 21 Oct
1966; m. (1) JOSEPH BURGESS
MEEKS, 01 Jan 1907, Huntington, Emery Co., UT;
b. 17 Mar 1882, Thurber, UT; d. 27 Feb 1932, Huntington, Emery Co., UT; m. (2)
HOMER FRANCIS
ADAMS, 27 Feb 1925, Price, Carbon Co., UT.
xi. ANDREW
MASON TUCKER,
b. 23 Nov 1890, Ashe Co., NC; d. 22 Jul 1975, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co.,
UT; m. (1) MALINDA JENSEN,
08 Jan 1912, Price, Carbon Co., UT; m. (2) FLORENCE
ISABELL GUYMON,
26 Sep 1919, Provo, Utah Co., UT.
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