[2] The Tuckers (and Dandridges) were among the First Families of Virginia, owned plantations and enslaved people, and were proud of their descent from English ancestors.

During the American Civil War, Tucker returned to Virginia and enlisted in the Confederate States Army, becoming a private in the Otey battery and witnessing the final eighteen months of the Confederacy.

Tucker excelled at social interactions with wealthy potential donors, including Coca-Cola heiress and philanthropist Letitia Pate Whitehead Evans and John D. Rockefeller Jr., who helped establish Colonial Williamsburg.

Tucker also published several books, including Confederate Verses, Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Scattered Essays and Poems, and My Three Loves (1910).

[5] Tucker died in 1930 and was buried with his wife among her relatives in the churchyard of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town, West Virginia.