Tucker House
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Marker Inscription
MOSES TUCKER (1833-1890) CAME TO TEXAS FROM KENTUCKY WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER, AARON, IN 1853. A LOG CABIN WAS BUILT ON THIS LAND. AFTER SERVING IN THE CIVIL WAR, TUCKER RETURNED TO PARKER COUNTY AND TO HIS WIFE, MARTHA ELIZABETH (COCKBURN) (1839-1915), AND FAMILY. ACCORDING TO ORAL TRADITION, THE CURRENT BUILDING WAS ERECTED IN 1889 AND CONSISTS OF VERTICAL BOARDS WITH LAP SIDING IN A VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL STYLE. THE HOME INCLUDED TWO ROOMS WITH A CENTRAL HALL AND AN ATTIC. THE BACK HALF OF THE HOUSE WAS LATER ADDED WITH A KITCHEN AREA, PORCHES, AND A BATH. THE TUCKER FAMILY FARMED THE LAND FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY BEFORE DONATING THE PROPERTY TO THE SILVER CREEK HERITAGE SOCIETY.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Moses Tucker and his twin brother left Kentucky for the Texas frontier in 1853, raising a log cabin on this Parker County land before Moses went off to the Civil War. Returning to his wife Martha and their family, he farmed the ground he had claimed, and around 1889 the family built the vernacular board-and-batten house that still stands. For more than a century the Tuckers worked this land, a quiet record of one settler family's endurance through war, drought, and generations.
Why it matters
Ordinary farmhouses like this one are how the story of westward settlement was actually lived — not by famous names but by families who broke the soil and stayed for a hundred years.
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Related people
- · Moses Tucker
- · Martha Elizabeth Cockburn Tucker
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