“ In her early years she was inclined to poetical cumposition. and in her seventeenth MARY FRANCES TUCKER. she published her two poems, "Going Up and Coming Down " and "Cometh a Blessing Down," which have gone round the world. In 1856 she year became the wife of Dr. E. L. Tucker, of Fulton, N. Y., arising physician of cultured tastes. They removed to Michigan, where they lived until 1863, when Dr. Tucker recruited a cavalry company for a Michigan regiment, and went with them into active service as first lieutenant. ”