Charles and Edie Tucker

My 3rd Great-grandparents, Charles Randolph Tucker, born 1848, Amherst Co. Va, and his young wife Edithea Cash, born 1852, around the time of their marriage in 1874. Together they had 9 children, 8 of which survived childhood and their youngest being my great-great grandmother Ruth. Both Charles and Edie came from very old, large and influential Virginia families, their ancestors having arrived in the colonies from England and Scotland as early as the 1640s.

Here Charles and Edie are pictured with their eldest surviving child Walter c. 1915. In the background, is Walter's wife Georgie Higginbotham Tucker with their daughter Louise and their eldest child Norman.

Lelah May Tucker Callahan

My great-great grandmother Ruth's oldest sister. Aunt Lelah, or Lelia, was born Aug. 7, 1879 in Amherst Co. Va. She married Edward Gillespie Callahan and had 3 children, Rosa, Charles Thomas and Mabel. She died Mar. 9, 1939 in Lynchburg, Va.