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• Tucker, William Feimster, 1827-1881.

Microfilm copy of biographical summary and historical and eulogistic sketches of William Feimster Tucker, native of Iredell County, N.C.; graduate of Emory and Henry College, 1848; school teacher, judge, and lawyer of Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss. Tucker was married to Martha Josephine Shackelford in 1851; rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the Confederate army; and served in the Mississippi state legislature, 1876-1878.