LUKER, Charles Robert, is a native son of Laurel County, Kentucky, and here he maintains an the office of county judge. His residence and official quarters are at London, the county seat. Judge Charles R. Luker was born at Altamont, Laurel County, 18 December 1886, and is a scion, in the third generation, of one of the honored pioneer families of this county, within whose borders his grandfather, Lewis Luker, a native of Virginia, established his residence in an early day. He purchased a tract of land near the present Village of Weaver and there developed the fine old homestead farm which is still known by the family name.
In Virginia was solemnized his marriage to Miss Callie (Calvina) Lee, likewise a native of that historic old commonwealth, and she shared with him in the activities and responsibilities of pioneer life in Laurel County, Kentucky, where they lived and wrought to worthy ends and where both remained on the old homestead until the close of their lives.
The Luker genealogy traces to staunch English origin, and the American progenitors settled in Virginia in the early Colonial period representatives of the name having been patriot soldiers in the Continental Line in the war of the Revolution. Jackson Luker, father of our subject (Judge Charles Robert Luker), who has resided near Weaver, Laurel County, from the time of his birth, in 1866, has been long numbered among the progressive and prosperous representatives of farm industry in his native county, where he has also been actively identified with coal mining enterprise, and his activities s touch both of these important lines of industry.
He is a staunch Republican, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Luker, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Horn, was born near Weaver, this county, in 1869, and she also is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county...
"History of Kentucky," Vol. IV, by Wm. Elsey Connelley, 1922
(note, this article goes on for some length detailing the family of Jackson Luker and the education and work of Judge Charles Robert Luker)
In Virginia was solemnized his marriage to Miss Callie (Calvina) Lee, likewise a native of that historic old commonwealth, and she shared with him in the activities and responsibilities of pioneer life in Laurel County, Kentucky, where they lived and wrought to worthy ends and where both remained on the old homestead until the close of their lives.
The Luker genealogy traces to staunch English origin, and the American progenitors settled in Virginia in the early Colonial period representatives of the name having been patriot soldiers in the Continental Line in the war of the Revolution. Jackson Luker, father of our subject (Judge Charles Robert Luker), who has resided near Weaver, Laurel County, from the time of his birth, in 1866, has been long numbered among the progressive and prosperous representatives of farm industry in his native county, where he has also been actively identified with coal mining enterprise, and his activities s touch both of these important lines of industry.
He is a staunch Republican, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Luker, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Horn, was born near Weaver, this county, in 1869, and she also is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county...
"History of Kentucky," Vol. IV, by Wm. Elsey Connelley, 1922
(note, this article goes on for some length detailing the family of Jackson Luker and the education and work of Judge Charles Robert Luker)
LUKER, Charles Robert, is a native son of Laurel County, Kentucky, and here he maintains an the office of county judge. His residence and official quarters are at London, the county seat. Judge Charles R. Luker was born at Altamont, Laurel County, 18 December 1886, and is a scion, in the third generation, of one of the honored pioneer families of this county, within whose borders his grandfather, Lewis Luker, a native of Virginia, established his residence in an early day. He purchased a tract of land near the present Village of Weaver and there developed the fine old homestead farm which is still known by the family name.
In Virginia was solemnized his marriage to Miss Callie (Calvina) Lee, likewise a native of that historic old commonwealth, and she shared with him in the activities and responsibilities of pioneer life in Laurel County, Kentucky, where they lived and wrought to worthy ends and where both remained on the old homestead until the close of their lives.
The Luker genealogy traces to staunch English origin, and the American progenitors settled in Virginia in the early Colonial period representatives of the name having been patriot soldiers in the Continental Line in the war of the Revolution. Jackson Luker, father of our subject (Judge Charles Robert Luker), who has resided near Weaver, Laurel County, from the time of his birth, in 1866, has been long numbered among the progressive and prosperous representatives of farm industry in his native county, where he has also been actively identified with coal mining enterprise, and his activities s touch both of these important lines of industry.
He is a staunch Republican, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Luker, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Horn, was born near Weaver, this county, in 1869, and she also is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county...
"History of Kentucky," Vol. IV, by Wm. Elsey Connelley, 1922
(note, this article goes on for some length detailing the family of Jackson Luker and the education and work of Judge Charles Robert Luker)
In Virginia was solemnized his marriage to Miss Callie (Calvina) Lee, likewise a native of that historic old commonwealth, and she shared with him in the activities and responsibilities of pioneer life in Laurel County, Kentucky, where they lived and wrought to worthy ends and where both remained on the old homestead until the close of their lives.
The Luker genealogy traces to staunch English origin, and the American progenitors settled in Virginia in the early Colonial period representatives of the name having been patriot soldiers in the Continental Line in the war of the Revolution. Jackson Luker, father of our subject (Judge Charles Robert Luker), who has resided near Weaver, Laurel County, from the time of his birth, in 1866, has been long numbered among the progressive and prosperous representatives of farm industry in his native county, where he has also been actively identified with coal mining enterprise, and his activities s touch both of these important lines of industry.
He is a staunch Republican, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Luker, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Horn, was born near Weaver, this county, in 1869, and she also is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county...
"History of Kentucky," Vol. IV, by Wm. Elsey Connelley, 1922
(note, this article goes on for some length detailing the family of Jackson Luker and the education and work of Judge Charles Robert Luker)
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