John Elisha Tucker
1835 - 1894

John E. Tucker was born on May 7, 1835, in Illinois of parents born in New York. John's father died in Illinois when he was about 3 years old. His mother and family moved to Lima, Grant Co., Wisconsin. She remarried a Mr. Boshford, having 5 children by her first marriage and 2 by her second. She died in 1846 when John was about 11 years old.

In 1857, when 21 years old, John purchased the first of several city lots he would eventually own in Montfort, Wingville Township, Grant County, and area noted for it's leadmines. He built one of the first building there. John was a blacksmith by trade, as was his older brother, Samuel, who lived nearby. On June1, 1862, John was married in Clifton, Grant Co., to Hannah Rebecca Dwire, of Plattsville, in Grant County.

In about 1876, John and family moved by covered wagon to Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas, where John was again a blacksmith. In 1878, he purchased a quarter section of land in Twin Grove Township, between Piedmont and Severy. Following the death of his wife in 1882, he married Catharine A. Streeter. John died on October 11, 1894, and was buried in Twin Grove Cemetery Severy, Kansas.