Margaret "Peggy" Paxton Tucker was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Plott Paxton.
No gravemarker was found when we visited the cemetery. The information about her being buried there was in research information that was done many years ago. I do not have solid proof.
Article in the Alleghany Tribune, May 20, 1881
An Old Lady Drowned - One day last week Mrs. Peggy Tucker, residing on Potts Creek, about eighteen miles from Covington, while attempting to cross the creek near Mr. Jacob Armentrout's upon some poles that had been thrown across it, fell into the stream. Her fall was witnessed by some young ladies, but before assistance could reach her was drowned. She was about eighty years of age.
No gravemarker was found when we visited the cemetery. The information about her being buried there was in research information that was done many years ago. I do not have solid proof.
Article in the Alleghany Tribune, May 20, 1881
An Old Lady Drowned - One day last week Mrs. Peggy Tucker, residing on Potts Creek, about eighteen miles from Covington, while attempting to cross the creek near Mr. Jacob Armentrout's upon some poles that had been thrown across it, fell into the stream. Her fall was witnessed by some young ladies, but before assistance could reach her was drowned. She was about eighty years of age.
Margaret "Peggy" Paxton Tucker was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Plott Paxton.
No gravemarker was found when we visited the cemetery. The information about her being buried there was in research information that was done many years ago. I do not have solid proof.
Article in the Alleghany Tribune, May 20, 1881
An Old Lady Drowned - One day last week Mrs. Peggy Tucker, residing on Potts Creek, about eighteen miles from Covington, while attempting to cross the creek near Mr. Jacob Armentrout's upon some poles that had been thrown across it, fell into the stream. Her fall was witnessed by some young ladies, but before assistance could reach her was drowned. She was about eighty years of age.
No gravemarker was found when we visited the cemetery. The information about her being buried there was in research information that was done many years ago. I do not have solid proof.
Article in the Alleghany Tribune, May 20, 1881
An Old Lady Drowned - One day last week Mrs. Peggy Tucker, residing on Potts Creek, about eighteen miles from Covington, while attempting to cross the creek near Mr. Jacob Armentrout's upon some poles that had been thrown across it, fell into the stream. Her fall was witnessed by some young ladies, but before assistance could reach her was drowned. She was about eighty years of age.
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