Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1915 — Rev. D. A Tucker Built Fine New Home in Florida. [ARTICLE]

Rev. D. A Tucker Built Fine New Home in Florida.

A copy of the Lynp Haven, Fla., Tribune has reached our desk and on the front page is an illustration of, a fine new residence which Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Tucker, formerly of Rensselaer, recehtly completed on Vermont avenue in that city. The paper says: The w est side “across Lynn Haven Bayou” has not so many buildings as some of the other parts, but it is destined to become one of the flne residence sections. A large part of it is within view of Lynn Haven Bayou or the Bay and the people there have shown some excellent results in gardening, proving that the soil there is very good. We -will just mention one place particularly at this time as we are Showing a picture of it on this .page. We visited the home of Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Tucker on Vermont avenue, between 9th and 10th streets, on Sept. 2, when we were entertained at a fine dinner, part of which came from the products of their own garden. ‘Here we ate our first Lynn Haven sweet potatoes grown from the summer setting. At that time we also had some flne watermelons fiom the same garden, .‘showing the length of time that the family enjoyed that crop and they were extra good. After the sumptuous dinner we took a walk through the garden and it was worth going far to see. The strawberry bed was a flne one. Rev. Tucker had received one good ciop of tomatoes from his vines and in rearranging those same vines to another part of the garden, having done certain trimming of them, and they were at that time again blossoming and preparing to give the owner another crop. There were a lot .of fine melons left on the vines that had produced for so long. The fruit trees were doing very well. Rev. Tucker had forty flne fig, orange, grapefruit, persimmon, etc., trees set out. We remember the pretty moonflower vines by the porch and the flower beds in the yards. There is a cement walk along the front and the rear of the place had a well arranged garden plot and a nicely arranged chicken house that Rev. Tucker built and he also did considerable carpenter work and painting on their residence.

The house has a comfortable porch, is well planned for convenience and ventilation. The reception room with its fireplace, and the study, dining room, kitchen and ■bath room on the first floor with three good bedrooms and hall upstairs, makes a very attractive home. The Tuckers came here October 9, 1913, and Mr. Tucker began working Nov. Ist following cleatring his flve city lots. The house was soon started and they moved into it January 5, 1914. Bev. Tucker spent four years, four months and eight days in active service in the civil war, coming out as orderly sergeant of Co. K, 18th Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry. He served in 23 hard fough£ battles and was wounded three times. After the war he attended Hillside college, Mich., for three years, studying law and was admitted to the bar, but accepted a call to enter the Christian ministry in the Baptist church. He came 'rom mission work in North Dakota under the auspices of the American Biptist Missionary board to take charge' of the Baptist church in Lynn Haven. The Baptist church here has been built and improved and has been recently removed to Virginia avenue between 9th and 10th streets and was ready for service again exactly one year from the day it was first opened for services. The Tucker family are boosters for Lynn Haven and active in the states clubs social work here.