Benton Co., AR - Biographies - J. M. Tucker

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J. M. Tucker, general merchant, Cherokee City, Benton Co., Ark., was 
born in Madison County, Ind., in 1840, and is a son of John and 
Angeline (Marsh) Tucker, natives of Ohio, and members of the Free-Will 
Baptist Church. The father was a successful farmer and merchant, and 
died in Southwest City, Mo. James M. Tucker was brought to Dallas 
County, Mo., by his parents when a child, and was there reared to 
manhood and educated. At the age of nineteen years he went to Colorado 
in 1860, but returned home in the fall of 1861, and entered the 
Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Col. Hunter's regiment, in 
Price's army. He was in the battles of Pea Ridge. Lone Jack (being 
wounded five times in the latter battle), Cape Girardcau, Pilot Knob, 
Helena, Prairie Grove and a number of others of less note. He was 
captured twice, and each time succeeded in effecting his escape. After 
the war he resided for some time in Boone County, Mo., and helped to 
build the mills at South west City, McDonald Co., Mo. At the end of 
six years he sold his property in that town and went to Maysville, 
Benton Co., Ark., where he engaged in the mill and distillery business 
three years. He afterward made another trip to Colorado, but only 
remained six months, when he returned and located at Eureka Springs, 
where he sold family groceries and provisions for ten months. He then 
spent some time in Texas engaged in the cattle business, and after 
returning to Arkansas, located in Cherokee City, where he has resided 
since August 25, 1881. He is the oldest merchant in the place and is 
doing a prosperous business. He was married in Maysville, Ark., in 
1876, to Miss Melvina Dabkins, a daughter of [p.901] Hugh Dabkins, of 
Tennessee, and by her is the father of three sons and three daughters. 
Mr. Tucker is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is well known 
throughout Benton County, where he is esteemed and respected for his 
many sterling qualities.