James Knox Polk Rucker was descended from slave owners in both parents' families. He joined the Confederacy at the age of seventeen in 1861 in Mississippi and spent much of the war in Union prisons. The son and son-in-law of physicians, he graduated from the University of Tennessee Medical Department in February 1881. He was reputed to have been a gifted musician, physician, and surgeon.
In 1866 he married Virginia Mary E. "Jennie" Pearce. (According to family lore, sixteen-year-old Jennie was in love with another man.) They had eight known children. The family moved often and lived in the following places: Ripley, Mississippi; Ruckersville, Mississippi; Falkner, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Pocahantas, Tennessee; Wooster, Arkansas; Conway, Arkansas; Whitt, Texas; Blossom, Texas; and Phelan, Tennessee.
Newspaper accounts indicate that Rucker, a married man, was run out of more than one town after sexual assault against females. According to a newspaper account, he had been charged with rape in Bell County, Texas, at the time of his suicide.
His widow Jennie moved to Oran, Palo Pinto County, Texas, and lived there until her death.
In 1866 he married Virginia Mary E. "Jennie" Pearce. (According to family lore, sixteen-year-old Jennie was in love with another man.) They had eight known children. The family moved often and lived in the following places: Ripley, Mississippi; Ruckersville, Mississippi; Falkner, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Pocahantas, Tennessee; Wooster, Arkansas; Conway, Arkansas; Whitt, Texas; Blossom, Texas; and Phelan, Tennessee.
Newspaper accounts indicate that Rucker, a married man, was run out of more than one town after sexual assault against females. According to a newspaper account, he had been charged with rape in Bell County, Texas, at the time of his suicide.
His widow Jennie moved to Oran, Palo Pinto County, Texas, and lived there until her death.
James Knox Polk Rucker was descended from slave owners in both parents' families. He joined the Confederacy at the age of seventeen in 1861 in Mississippi and spent much of the war in Union prisons. The son and son-in-law of physicians, he graduated from the University of Tennessee Medical Department in February 1881. He was reputed to have been a gifted musician, physician, and surgeon.
In 1866 he married Virginia Mary E. "Jennie" Pearce. (According to family lore, sixteen-year-old Jennie was in love with another man.) They had eight known children. The family moved often and lived in the following places: Ripley, Mississippi; Ruckersville, Mississippi; Falkner, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Pocahantas, Tennessee; Wooster, Arkansas; Conway, Arkansas; Whitt, Texas; Blossom, Texas; and Phelan, Tennessee.
Newspaper accounts indicate that Rucker, a married man, was run out of more than one town after sexual assault against females. According to a newspaper account, he had been charged with rape in Bell County, Texas, at the time of his suicide.
His widow Jennie moved to Oran, Palo Pinto County, Texas, and lived there until her death.
In 1866 he married Virginia Mary E. "Jennie" Pearce. (According to family lore, sixteen-year-old Jennie was in love with another man.) They had eight known children. The family moved often and lived in the following places: Ripley, Mississippi; Ruckersville, Mississippi; Falkner, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Pocahantas, Tennessee; Wooster, Arkansas; Conway, Arkansas; Whitt, Texas; Blossom, Texas; and Phelan, Tennessee.
Newspaper accounts indicate that Rucker, a married man, was run out of more than one town after sexual assault against females. According to a newspaper account, he had been charged with rape in Bell County, Texas, at the time of his suicide.
His widow Jennie moved to Oran, Palo Pinto County, Texas, and lived there until her death.
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