Rev. Thomas Wait Tucker (1791-1871)
Mary Orn Tucker (1794-1865)
David Sylvester Fogg was born in New Hampshire in 1821. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Medical School, taking his degree of doctor in medicine in 1845. In 1846, he settled in South Dedham and practiced in this and surrounding towns. He became a mainstay of the community and was a well-loved and respected physician.
In 1847 he married Mary Bagnell Tucker, a skilled landscape artist, and the youngest daughter of Rev. Thomas Wait Tucker, a Methodist minister then stationed in Dorchester.
Thomas Wait Tucker was born on April 22, 1791. He was ordained at the age of 21 and continued in active service throughout New England for more than sixty years. On March 17, 1816, he married Mary Orn. She had been born on October 15, 1794 in Vermont. Mary Orn Tucker became, according to one source, “a true helpmeet to him and a sharer of all his joys and sorrows.” The Tuckers came to reside in South Dedham with their daughter and son-in-law Mary and David Fogg around 1850.
On October 19, 1865, Mary Orn Tucker died in South Dedham. The cause of her death was listed as apoplexy. She was interred in Old Parish Cemetery in a lot purchased by her son-in-law Dr. David S. Fogg.
Rev. Thomas Tucker passed away on August 6, 1871. He too was buried in Old Parish Cemetery.
Soon after Highland Cemetery was established, Dr. Fogg purchased a lot in that burial ground and moved the Tuckers and their memorial stones from Old Parish. The gravestones, in need of repair, now stand in Highland next to the Fogg memorial.
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