Louisa & Marion Montgomery Tucker


Louisa Lewis was 20 years old when Martin and Winnie Lewis left Cocke County Tennessee. She was married to Marion Montgomery (Ben) Tucker born about 1842 in Washington County Tennessee to Abraham Tucker and Mary Ann Britton. The Tuckers are on the 1870 and 1880 Collin County Census. The Tucker family moved to Indian Territory across the Red River and located near the village of Eastman, in what is now Love Co. and is located about 15 miles NW of Marietta. There is no town or post office there now, just a cemetery. They built a two story log home and lived there for about 15 years and then things started going downhill. In 1892, Marion filed a disability claim with the U.S. govt. for assistance from his arthrtis suffered in the Civil War. Several doctors stated their opinions on this and affidavits were requested for neighbors living in Tennessee that Marion has not seen in 25 years. Basically it was explained that he could not function in cold, wet weather. This paperwork amounted to 2 dozen pages or more in volume.

Fast forward three years.... Marion had filed a complaint on his son-in-law charging him with assault on one of Marion's other daughters, then about age 12. On Wednesday, 6th of February 1895, Marion, Louisa and three of their children were murdered and their cabin burned down. Fred Wilson, a son-in-law, was a suspect but was never convicted. Some members of the family thought they were murdered by Indians. There were several murders in that area at that time, probably by a gang of outlaws. According to Dave Rogers, great-great grandson.

About the weather that day... Locomotives could not leave Galveston Texas to go north because there was 27 inches of snow on the ground in that area of Texas. Marion and the other 4 are buried under one stone in the Eastman Cemetery about 1 mile west of where they died. Marion and Lousia had a daughter that married Mack Stewart prior to the murder in 1890 and they and others are buried in that cemetery.