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John A. Tucker and his friend Joseph Burk were killed the same day, "shot offa their horses" by bush-whackers. Affidavit of Susan L. Tucker (wife of Robert S. Tucker, John's son) states: "That we saw the said Joseph Burk often; he was killed and was at his burying and that he was killed by a company or squad of Rebels on the 6th day of Sept. 1864 on Kings River in the County of Madison and State of Arkansas; that the said Susan L. Tucker help to wash and dress the said Burk when he was a corpse and noticed that he had been shot; she did not see the shooting but heard the report of the guns and saw the squad of men leaving the place where said soldier was shot or near the place that she saw him in an house often (where) he was shot; they said neighbors to the said Burk (that) he was with a squad of said Bivens Company [see below] at the time he was shot as we understood. She further states that the said neighbors is in the same settlement with Joseph Burk in his lifetime and we knew of our own personal knowledge that he and Sarah Burk lived together as husband and wife and we knew them to lived together for several years and up to the time of his death as such husband (and) wife.
Numerous descendants of John A. Tucker state that Joseph Burk and John Tucker were not only killed at the same time but were also buried together. In the book, Fading Memories, a descendant, Sam Steele (1897-1989) states: My mother was a Burks, Mary Burks. Her dad, my mother's dad, got killed by bush-whackers, him and another feller, Joe Burks and John Tucker. They shot 'em offa their horses up there on Kings River. They had been to Kingston, them and their boys, and started back home. And them boys wanted to go to some house over there and rob some bee hives somebody had. The men told them they wasn't going to have nothin' to do with it; they'd just go on home. So, they got over on Kings River and the bushwhackers was layin' and waitin' for em and shot them both off their horses. The boys, I don't know whether they robbed the bees or not, but they went on home; and the women, they had to go and build a rail fence around 'em (the men's bodies) that night to keep the hogs off them. So they had to go bury 'em, the women did. The boys was afraid to get around close, afraid they'd (bushwhackers) get them, you know. They took a yoke of oxen and hauled 'em up there to the Bollingers settlement. There's a little cemetery there, and they dug a grave and buried them both in the same grave. They just put 'em down there. Nobody never had put 'em up a head rock, till me and my sister and one of my cousins, Howie Burks from Springdale, bought one. But we didn't know what to put on it, didn't have no dates and so on, so we set it up over there and put on it: Killed by bushwhackers and buried by their women.
According to Sarah (Felkins) Burks pension application, Joseph Burk died on September 6, 1864, and it could be concluded that John A. Tucker died on that same day. The granite tombstone reads: Burk & Tucker; Bushwhacked in the Civil War; Buried by their women. This tombstone is located in the Bolinger Cemetery located about ten miles south of Kingston in Madison County, Arkansas.
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John A. Tucker is my third great grandfather. Photo of headstone was taken by Steven F. Illum on 29 Mar 2000. Inscription:
BURK & TUCKER
BUSHWHACKED IN THE CIVIL WAR
BURIED BY THEIR WOMEN
The women were the wives of Joseph L. Burke (Sarah Felkins Burke) and John A. Tucker (Lucinda Arrington Tucker).
http://www.rcasey.net/steven/stestart.htm
John A. Tucker and his friend Joseph Burk were killed the same day, "shot offa their horses" by bush-whackers. Affidavit of Susan L. Tucker (wife of Robert S. Tucker, John's son) states: "That we saw the said Joseph Burk often; he was killed and was at his burying and that he was killed by a company or squad of Rebels on the 6th day of Sept. 1864 on Kings River in the County of Madison and State of Arkansas; that the said Susan L. Tucker help to wash and dress the said Burk when he was a corpse and noticed that he had been shot; she did not see the shooting but heard the report of the guns and saw the squad of men leaving the place where said soldier was shot or near the place that she saw him in an house often (where) he was shot; they said neighbors to the said Burk (that) he was with a squad of said Bivens Company [see below] at the time he was shot as we understood. She further states that the said neighbors is in the same settlement with Joseph Burk in his lifetime and we knew of our own personal knowledge that he and Sarah Burk lived together as husband and wife and we knew them to lived together for several years and up to the time of his death as such husband (and) wife.
Numerous descendants of John A. Tucker state that Joseph Burk and John Tucker were not only killed at the same time but were also buried together. In the book, Fading Memories, a descendant, Sam Steele (1897-1989) states: My mother was a Burks, Mary Burks. Her dad, my mother's dad, got killed by bush-whackers, him and another feller, Joe Burks and John Tucker. They shot 'em offa their horses up there on Kings River. They had been to Kingston, them and their boys, and started back home. And them boys wanted to go to some house over there and rob some bee hives somebody had. The men told them they wasn't going to have nothin' to do with it; they'd just go on home. So, they got over on Kings River and the bushwhackers was layin' and waitin' for em and shot them both off their horses. The boys, I don't know whether they robbed the bees or not, but they went on home; and the women, they had to go and build a rail fence around 'em (the men's bodies) that night to keep the hogs off them. So they had to go bury 'em, the women did. The boys was afraid to get around close, afraid they'd (bushwhackers) get them, you know. They took a yoke of oxen and hauled 'em up there to the Bollingers settlement. There's a little cemetery there, and they dug a grave and buried them both in the same grave. They just put 'em down there. Nobody never had put 'em up a head rock, till me and my sister and one of my cousins, Howie Burks from Springdale, bought one. But we didn't know what to put on it, didn't have no dates and so on, so we set it up over there and put on it: Killed by bushwhackers and buried by their women.
According to Sarah (Felkins) Burks pension application, Joseph Burk died on September 6, 1864, and it could be concluded that John A. Tucker died on that same day. The granite tombstone reads: Burk & Tucker; Bushwhacked in the Civil War; Buried by their women. This tombstone is located in the Bolinger Cemetery located about ten miles south of Kingston in Madison County, Arkansas.
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John A. Tucker is my third great grandfather. Photo of headstone was taken by Steven F. Illum on 29 Mar 2000. Inscription:
BURK & TUCKER
BUSHWHACKED IN THE CIVIL WAR
BURIED BY THEIR WOMEN
The women were the wives of Joseph L. Burke (Sarah Felkins Burke) and John A. Tucker (Lucinda Arrington Tucker).
Robert Casey
http://www.rcasey.net/steven/stestart.htm
John A. Tucker and his friend Joseph Burk were killed the same day, "shot offa their horses" by bush-whackers. Affidavit of Susan L. Tucker (wife of Robert S. Tucker, John's son) states: "That we saw the said Joseph Burk often; he was killed and was at his burying and that he was killed by a company or squad of Rebels on the 6th day of Sept. 1864 on Kings River in the County of Madison and State of Arkansas; that the said Susan L. Tucker help to wash and dress the said Burk when he was a corpse and noticed that he had been shot; she did not see the shooting but heard the report of the guns and saw the squad of men leaving the place where said soldier was shot or near the place that she saw him in an house often (where) he was shot; they said neighbors to the said Burk (that) he was with a squad of said Bivens Company [see below] at the time he was shot as we understood. She further states that the said neighbors is in the same settlement with Joseph Burk in his lifetime and we knew of our own personal knowledge that he and Sarah Burk lived together as husband and wife and we knew them to lived together for several years and up to the time of his death as such husband (and) wife.
Numerous descendants of John A. Tucker state that Joseph Burk and John Tucker were not only killed at the same time but were also buried together. In the book, Fading Memories, a descendant, Sam Steele (1897-1989) states: My mother was a Burks, Mary Burks. Her dad, my mother's dad, got killed by bush-whackers, him and another feller, Joe Burks and John Tucker. They shot 'em offa their horses up there on Kings River. They had been to Kingston, them and their boys, and started back home. And them boys wanted to go to some house over there and rob some bee hives somebody had. The men told them they wasn't going to have nothin' to do with it; they'd just go on home. So, they got over on Kings River and the bushwhackers was layin' and waitin' for em and shot them both off their horses. The boys, I don't know whether they robbed the bees or not, but they went on home; and the women, they had to go and build a rail fence around 'em (the men's bodies) that night to keep the hogs off them. So they had to go bury 'em, the women did. The boys was afraid to get around close, afraid they'd (bushwhackers) get them, you know. They took a yoke of oxen and hauled 'em up there to the Bollingers settlement. There's a little cemetery there, and they dug a grave and buried them both in the same grave. They just put 'em down there. Nobody never had put 'em up a head rock, till me and my sister and one of my cousins, Howie Burks from Springdale, bought one. But we didn't know what to put on it, didn't have no dates and so on, so we set it up over there and put on it: Killed by bushwhackers and buried by their women.
According to Sarah (Felkins) Burks pension application, Joseph Burk died on September 6, 1864, and it could be concluded that John A. Tucker died on that same day. The granite tombstone reads: Burk & Tucker; Bushwhacked in the Civil War; Buried by their women. This tombstone is located in the Bolinger Cemetery located about ten miles south of Kingston in Madison County, Arkansas.
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John A. Tucker is my third great grandfather. Photo of headstone was taken by Steven F. Illum on 29 Mar 2000. Inscription:
BURK & TUCKER
BUSHWHACKED IN THE CIVIL WAR
BURIED BY THEIR WOMEN
The women were the wives of Joseph L. Burke (Sarah Felkins Burke) and John A. Tucker (Lucinda Arrington Tucker).
http://www.rcasey.net/steven/stestart.htm
John A. Tucker and his friend Joseph Burk were killed the same day, "shot offa their horses" by bush-whackers. Affidavit of Susan L. Tucker (wife of Robert S. Tucker, John's son) states: "That we saw the said Joseph Burk often; he was killed and was at his burying and that he was killed by a company or squad of Rebels on the 6th day of Sept. 1864 on Kings River in the County of Madison and State of Arkansas; that the said Susan L. Tucker help to wash and dress the said Burk when he was a corpse and noticed that he had been shot; she did not see the shooting but heard the report of the guns and saw the squad of men leaving the place where said soldier was shot or near the place that she saw him in an house often (where) he was shot; they said neighbors to the said Burk (that) he was with a squad of said Bivens Company [see below] at the time he was shot as we understood. She further states that the said neighbors is in the same settlement with Joseph Burk in his lifetime and we knew of our own personal knowledge that he and Sarah Burk lived together as husband and wife and we knew them to lived together for several years and up to the time of his death as such husband (and) wife.
Numerous descendants of John A. Tucker state that Joseph Burk and John Tucker were not only killed at the same time but were also buried together. In the book, Fading Memories, a descendant, Sam Steele (1897-1989) states: My mother was a Burks, Mary Burks. Her dad, my mother's dad, got killed by bush-whackers, him and another feller, Joe Burks and John Tucker. They shot 'em offa their horses up there on Kings River. They had been to Kingston, them and their boys, and started back home. And them boys wanted to go to some house over there and rob some bee hives somebody had. The men told them they wasn't going to have nothin' to do with it; they'd just go on home. So, they got over on Kings River and the bushwhackers was layin' and waitin' for em and shot them both off their horses. The boys, I don't know whether they robbed the bees or not, but they went on home; and the women, they had to go and build a rail fence around 'em (the men's bodies) that night to keep the hogs off them. So they had to go bury 'em, the women did. The boys was afraid to get around close, afraid they'd (bushwhackers) get them, you know. They took a yoke of oxen and hauled 'em up there to the Bollingers settlement. There's a little cemetery there, and they dug a grave and buried them both in the same grave. They just put 'em down there. Nobody never had put 'em up a head rock, till me and my sister and one of my cousins, Howie Burks from Springdale, bought one. But we didn't know what to put on it, didn't have no dates and so on, so we set it up over there and put on it: Killed by bushwhackers and buried by their women.
According to Sarah (Felkins) Burks pension application, Joseph Burk died on September 6, 1864, and it could be concluded that John A. Tucker died on that same day. The granite tombstone reads: Burk & Tucker; Bushwhacked in the Civil War; Buried by their women. This tombstone is located in the Bolinger Cemetery located about ten miles south of Kingston in Madison County, Arkansas.
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John A. Tucker is my third great grandfather. Photo of headstone was taken by Steven F. Illum on 29 Mar 2000. Inscription:
BURK & TUCKER
BUSHWHACKED IN THE CIVIL WAR
BURIED BY THEIR WOMEN
The women were the wives of Joseph L. Burke (Sarah Felkins Burke) and John A. Tucker (Lucinda Arrington Tucker).
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