Bennett Tuck was born in Halifax County, Virginia about 1821. Bennett followed his brothers and sister to Georgia and became a building contractor. On a business trip to Tennessee when Bennett was in his thirties, he mysteriously disappeared.

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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