Person

Orville Tucker (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1808? d. 1882

Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Artemesia Macie Helm Tucker in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1836. Father of Martha F. Tucker, Sarah E. Tucker, Eliza Ann Tucker, George Washington Tucker, Caleb Tucker, Drusilla Tucker, Mary A. Tucker, Margaret Tucker, William Tucker, Orville Tucker, Pleasant Tucker, and Artemesia Macie Tucker. Farmer in Boyle County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Farmer in Boyle County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Boyle County in 1862.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 1, p. 341 A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 1, p. 565.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 983-984.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 167A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Precinct 1, p. 131A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lincoln County Marriages, Film #007725014, p. 265.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #24938.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Boyle County Administrators Bonds, 1852-1956, p. 213.

KYR-0001-031-0065.

Citation

Tucker, Orville. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213876 (November 12, 2026).

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