"Old Dan Tucker"

Reverend Daniel Tucker, born in Virginia on February 14, 1744, came to this area to take up a land grant and became a Revolutionary soldier, planter, and minister. He owned a large plantation on the Savannah River and operated Tucker's Ferry near his home, Point Lookout, six miles from here, where he is buried near his old homesite. He died on April 7, 1818, but not “of a toothache in his heel.” Esteemed by his fellow planters, he was loved by the Negroes, who composed the many verses of the famous ditty “Old Dan Tucker,” a favorite song at corn shuckings and other social gatherings.

Georgia · United States