St. George Tucker (1752–1827) had been a distinguished lawyer, legal scholar, state and federal judge during and after the American Revolutionary War.
His mother, Anna Maria Washington, was a collateral descendant of the first U.S. president, and one of the last children born at Mount Vernon before it became a museum.
In 1953, the Forward Movement published More than Conquerors, a collection of Tucker's letters to his congregation, including about his seemingly miraculous recovery from lung cancer while awaiting surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
[4] During the Civil Rights controversies relatively early in his Savannah ministry, Tucker refused to condone the practice of white churches excluding people at services for fear of "kneel-ins."
Bishop Reeves conducted the funeral (which featured many hymns that Tucker had composed) and noted his friend's passing as the "end of an era."
Tucker was buried at Savannah's historic Bonaventure Cemetery beside his beloved wife, whom he had survived for a dozen years, with the help of faithful parishioners.