General Notes

CLARA CAROLINE O. DICKEY was born in 1857 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA.  She was the second daughter of James M. Dickey and Mary Maglone.  Sarah's father James, born about 1819 in North Carolina, was a blacksmith.  Sarah's mother Mary was born in Indiana on Christmas Day 1831, the daughter of James Maglone of County Monaghan, Ireland and Mary Landers of Poughkeepsie, New York.  On 25 December 1851, when Mary Maglone was exactly 20 years old, she married James Dickey in Olney, Richland County, Illinois.

James and Mary settled in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois.  The couple may have had children that died in infancy, but they had three surviving children — Sarah Catherine Dickey, the eldest, born in 1855; Clara Caroline O. "Carrie" Dickey, born in 1857; and Henry Clay Dickey, born in 1860.  Carrie's maternal grandparents had both died before she was even born, and she lost her mother at a very young age, too.  Carrie was only 4 years old when Mary died on 03 July 1861 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois.  James Dickey the blacksmith was left with 3 young children to raise — Sarah, 6; Carrie, 4; and little Henry, only 14 months old.  Fortunately, even though Mary and her parents were dead, there were lots of Maglone relatives that also lived in Noble.

James Dickey never re-married, so Carrie grew up without even a step-mother.  It is not known when her father James M. Dickey died, but it was sometime between the 1880 and 1900 census enumerations.

On 01 November 1883, Carrie married Abraham Douglas Tucker, son of Joseph Tucker and Nancy Bedwell.  Abe was born on 13 Feb 1857 in Noble Township; he worked as a farmer.  Their daughter Julia May Tucker was born in July of either 1884 or 1885 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA.  Unfortunately, Carrie died young, in 1885 (according to her gravestone), perhaps when May was born, or perhaps at the birth of another child that did not survive.  She was buried in Hanna Cemetery in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA.

A few years after Carrie's death, Abe married again, to Carrie's first cousin, Elsie Elizabeth Maglone.  Elsie had previously been married to Abe's first cousin, Hugh M. Tucker, but he also died young and Elsie was left a young widow with a daughter to raise, Laura Tucker.  The two daughters, May and Laura, were double second cousins to each other, but now they became step-sisters in the new merged family.  Abe and Elsie had a third child together, a son, Corta Emery Tucker, was born in 1893.

Abe died on 29 March 1937 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA.  He was 80 years old.  He was buried in Hanna Cemetery on the first of April, 1937, next to his first wife Carrie.  Elsie lived as a widow for another 16 years, and then she died herself in Noble, Illinois, on the 8th of May, 1953.  She was buried in Hanna Cemetery, next to her second husband, Abraham Tucker, on 11 May 1953.  A headstone was erected in memory of the three of them — Abraham Tucker and his two wives, cousins Carrie and Elsie.

—  bio written for FindAGrave, 18 April 2012, kmh.

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  Burial Notes

Hanna Cemetery

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 13 August 1860 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA. ³
  

Jas M Dickey     40   M   Blacksmith   N C    real estate value 1,500; personal property value 100
Mary             25   F                Ills
Sarah             5   F                 "
Caroline          3   F                 "
H Clay         1/12   M                 "

• She appeared on the census in 1880 in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA.

• She was buried at the Hanna Cemetery in Noble Township, Richland County, Illinois, USA in 1885.