Born in 1796 in Amherst County, Virginia to Thomas Rucker and Sarah Reade. The family relocated in Rutherford County, Tennessee, when Edmund was a very young child. Edmund Rucker married Louisa Orville Winchester (daughter of Sumner County's General James Winchester, of Cragfont, and wife Susan Black) in 1826. Edmund received his medical degree at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, in 1843. Dr. Rucker engaged in farming and in the practice of medicine. When the Civil War broke out, he sent his wife to Cragfont for her safety. In November, 1861, Union troops, in a raid of his home in DeKalb County, Tennessee, was tied to a fence post and his house was burned. He walked to his daughter's home, in Dayton, Alabama, where he died a few days later. His body could not be returned to Tennessee as it was behind Union lines. His grave location is unknown.
Born in 1796 in Amherst County, Virginia to Thomas Rucker and Sarah Reade. The family relocated in Rutherford County, Tennessee, when Edmund was a very young child. Edmund Rucker married Louisa Orville Winchester (daughter of Sumner County's General James Winchester, of Cragfont, and wife Susan Black) in 1826. Edmund received his medical degree at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, in 1843. Dr. Rucker engaged in farming and in the practice of medicine. When the Civil War broke out, he sent his wife to Cragfont for her safety. In November, 1861, Union troops, in a raid of his home in DeKalb County, Tennessee, was tied to a fence post and his house was burned. He walked to his daughter's home, in Dayton, Alabama, where he died a few days later. His body could not be returned to Tennessee as it was behind Union lines. His grave location is unknown.
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