Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameDicey Louisa O’KELLEY 
Birth Date13 Nov 1821
Death Date15 Jan 1892 Age: 70
Burial PlaceClarke County, Georgia, Their Farm
Spouses
Birth Date13 Mar 1815
Birth PlaceHalifax County, Virginia
Death Date11 Feb 1904 Age: 88
Burial PlaceClarke County, Georgia, Their Farm
OccupationUS Soldier In Cherokee Removal, Later CW Confederate Civilian Support,
FatherRobert TUCK Sr. (1771-1867)
MotherNancy DEWBERRY (1775-)
Family ID1609
Marr Date21 Jan 1844
ChildrenWilliam Robert (?-)
James Isaiah (?-)
Notes for Robert (Spouse 1)
Robert Tuck, Jr. was born on 13 March 1815 in Halifax County, Virginia, USA. In 1834, at the age of 19, Robert left Virginia and traveled to Georgia to join a brother, Richardson Tuck; a sister, Prudence Victoria Tuck (Mrs. Eli Boyd Tuck); an uncle, Bennett Tuck; and an aunt, Jane “Jennie” Tuck (Mrs. Boyd Pinson) who had preceded him in moving from Virginia to Georgia. He was married 21 January 1844 to Dicey Louisa O'Kelley who was born on 13 November 1821. In his first eight years in Georgia, Robert Tuck was employed as an overseer on a cotton plantation, ''boss'' of a construction gang on the W&A Railroad, and soldier in the United States Army.
In 1838, Robert Tuck, Jr. enlisted for the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to new lands beyond the Mississippi. He always spoke of this experience with great emotion, because of the sympathy he felt for those people who were forcibly removed from their homes. When he returned to Oglethorpe County, Georgia he purchased land in the Cloud’s Creek District and acquired several slaves. He married Dicey Louisa O’Kelley on 21 January 1844. She was the daughter of James O’Kelley and Dicey Stamps O’Kelley of Oglethorpe County, Georgia and was born on 13 November 1821.
In 1849, Robert and his wife Dicey sold their property and bought a house in Walton County where they lived for only one year. Their next move was to Buck Branch District in Clarke County, northeast Georgia. They lived just outside of the city limits of Athens until 1866, when they sold this farm, all but a quarter of an acre, on which two children had been buried who had died in early childhood. Many years later Robert and Dicey were also buried in this plot.
Robert Tuck did not believe it was right for the South to secede from the Union, but he saw two sons go off to fight for the Confederacy. William Robert Tuck, at the age of 17, joined General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army; and James Isaiah Tuck fought in General T. R. R. Cobb’s Legion and was killed in the first Confederate raid into Maryland. He was buried in a new gray uniform made by his mother in Stevensburg, Virginia. Robert Tuck, Jr. also served doing provost duty for the Home Guard. At the age of about 50 he spent several months making salt for the Confederate Army in St. Marks, Florida. Robert Tuck and his wife’s last move in 1880 was to the Puryear’s District of Clarke County, Georgia, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Dicey Louisa O’Kelley died 15 January 1892 at 71 and Robert Tuck, Jr. died 11 February 1904 at the age of 89.
The facts presented came from Alethea Jane Macon’s book, John and Edward Tuck of Halifax County, Virginia and Some of Their Descendants; A History of Tuckston United Methodist Church, Founded in 1889 written by James Hefner and Elsa Ann Johnson; and from stories shared by Barbara Hathaway and Lenda Tuck on Ancestry.com.
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The Trail of Tears, one of the tragic events in American history. In the 1830s the Cherokee and other Native Americans were forcibly removed from the Southeast and were driven westward to what later became the Oklahoma Territory.
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In 1838, Robert Tuck, Jr. enlisted for the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to new lands beyond the Mississippi. He always spoke of this experience with great emotion, because of the sympathy he felt for those people who were forcibly removed from their homes. When he returned to Oglethorpe County, Georgia he purchased land in the Cloud’s Creek District and acquired several slaves. He married Dicey Louisa O’Kelley on 21 January 1844. She was the daughter of James O’Kelley and Dicey Stamps O’Kelley of Oglethorpe County, Georgia and was born on 13 November 1821.
In 1849, Robert and his wife Dicey sold their property and bought a house in Walton County where they lived for only one year. Their next move was to Buck Branch District in Clarke County, northeast Georgia. They lived just outside of the city limits of Athens until 1866, when they sold this farm, all but a quarter of an acre, on which two children had been buried who had died in early childhood. Many years later Robert and Dicey were also buried in this plot.
Robert Tuck did not believe it was right for the South to secede from the Union, but he saw two sons go off to fight for the Confederacy. William Robert Tuck, at the age of 17, joined General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army; and James Isaiah Tuck fought in General T. R. R. Cobb’s Legion and was killed in the first Confederate raid into Maryland. He was buried in a new gray uniform made by his mother in Stevensburg, Virginia. Robert Tuck, Jr. also served doing provost duty for the Home Guard. At the age of about 50 he spent several months making salt for the Confederate Army in St. Marks, Florida. Robert Tuck and his wife’s last move in 1880 was to the Puryear’s District of Clarke County, Georgia, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Dicey Louisa O’Kelley died 15 January 1892 at 71 and Robert Tuck, Jr. died 11 February 1904 at the age of 89.
The facts presented came from Alethea Jane Macon’s book, John and Edward Tuck of Halifax County, Virginia and Some of Their Descendants; A History of Tuckston United Methodist Church, Founded in 1889 written by James Hefner and Elsa Ann Johnson; and from stories shared by Barbara Hathaway and Lenda Tuck on Ancestry.com.
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The Trail of Tears, one of the tragic events in American history. In the 1830s the Cherokee and other Native Americans were forcibly removed from the Southeast and were driven westward to what later became the Oklahoma Territory.
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