The exact death date was not given. That date was learned by consulting the online database of the Blair Cemetery.

There were few identifying dates in this article.

FREEMAN TUCKER, 78, SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK

WAS EARLY SETTLER. FAMILY CAME TO COUNTY, TO DESOTO, IN 1877

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Death came suddenly to Freeman Tucker, aged 78 years, as he was on his way from town to his home on Tuesday afternoon at about four o’clock. He had reached within about a block of his home and had apparently sat down to rest, placing two packages which he was carrying on the ground. He was first discovered by his wife, who was watching for his return. When she discovered him on the ground on the highway, she called for help and hastened to him. Neighbors came and carried him into the house and a physician was called but life had become extinct.

Deceased was born in Illinois in 1864 and with his family came to this county when thirteen years of age and with the exception of one year spent in Omaha, has since made this county his home.

On May 5, 1887, he was married to Miss Mary Justice in Omaha and to them three children were born, two sons and one daughter. One son, Gifford, when eleven years old was killed in a train accident; another son, Roy L., is married and resides in Omaha. The daughter, Mrs. Opal Lawson, resides in Wisconsin.

These besides the widow survive and mourn deeply the loss of a loving husband and father. Also, two sisters, Mrs. Frank Strong of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Charles Little of Chicago, remain. They had both visited him last summer.

Mr. Tucker was a farmer all his life and through his genial manner, his upright life and his kindly disposition, he had endeared himself to all who knew him and his family, and his old friends of a lifetime will miss him.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the Bendorf Funeral Home and interment will be made in the Blair cemetery.

For the last sad rites, the immediate family and the two sisters have all arrived to do honor to him by witnessing the ceremony.