Daniel Tucker

1740 - 1818  (78 years)

• Name	Daniel Tucker
  Birth	14 Feb 1740	Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Apr 1818	Heardmont, Elbert County, Georgia
  Person ID	I124	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2008

  
  

• Headstones		Tucker, Daniel GPS: N 34 deg 7.065 minutes; west 82 deg 40.297, elevation 507
  		Tucker, Daniel (Old Marker) GPS: N 34 deg 7.065 minutes; west 82 deg 40.297, elevation 507

  
  

• Notes

  Obtained a land grant and became one of the county's most useful and best known citizens. One of his closest friends and neighbors was the former Governor of Georgia, Stephen Heard. He ferried people back and forth across the Savannah River between the states of GA. and South Carolina. He bought "Cook's Ferry Tract" with a ferry and all the items that went with it. He was Methodist minister who cared very deeply for the farm hands population. His workhands loved him composed many verses of the famous ditty, “Old Dan Tucker”, a favorite song at corn shucking time on his plantation. Married Francis Epps, abt. 1765/7.