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Submitted: 1/6/13 • Approved: 1/8/13 • Last Updated: 1/5/14 • R807203-G807202-S3
August 5,1813 Williamson County, Tennessee
July 13, 1861
Daughter of Rachel Dowdy and William Tucker in
Married Benjamin (Benjamine) Nicholas Bugg March 9, 1835 in Williamson County, Tennessee. They moved to Little Piney in Johnson County Arkansas before settling in Sebastian County. They had eight children: Sarah Elizabeth, John E, Martha C, Nancy A, William Thomas, Winfield Scott, Eliza Jane, and Benjamin Harve Bugg. Four were born in Tennessee and four in Arkansas. Nancy A was born in 1842 and died in 1843 while they still lived in Johnson County. Her grave has not been located.
Annis died in 1861, the same year Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President of the United States. She is buried next to her husband, Benjamin, and near several of her children at Steep Hill Cemetery in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Her son, William Thomas and wife Martha T McAlester Bugg, along with Martha's sister, Louisa and husband, James W Rutherford, purchased and donated three acres of land to expand Steep Hill Cemetery beyond the original half acre that belonged to the Bugg family. With the exception of two McAlester infants (siblings of Martha and Louisa), Annis Tucker Bugg's grave is the oldest in Steep Hill Cemetery.
Annis Tucker's family is noted in the "History of Davidson County, Tennessee: with Ilustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers."
*Annis Tucker's father, and Benjamin Nicholas Bugg's mother, married in their second marriage.
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Parents:
William Tucker (1787 - 1861)
Rachel Dowdy Tucker (1802 - 1833)
Spouse:
Benjamin Nicholas Bugg (1817 - 1873)*
Children:
Sarah Elizabeth Bugg Harris (1835 - 1913)*
John Ephraim Bugg (1839 - 1922)*
William Thomas Bugg (1844 - 1918)*
Eliza Jane Bugg Williams (1850 - 1942)*
Harve B Bugg (1853 - 1937)*
*Calculated relationship
Contributed on 1/6/13
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Record #: 807203