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Note: It was always believed that William was married to another woman and had children with her prior to marrying Henrietta Wilhelmina Niemeyer ("Mina"). There is a space of 5 years between Ella and William's next youngest child and she is listed last (the only child out of birth order) in the 1880 census. In the 1900 census, Mina claims to have only had 8 children (and Ella would be 9). Ella is listed as the daughter of the head of household (William Frederick Tucker) on the 1880 census. While Mina does refer to Ella as her daughter in her will, Ella does not share equally with the other 7 children listed. Also, in court papers filed by George W. Tucker as executor of Mina's will, he does not list Ella as one of Mina's children. William Tucker refers to an Allie Tucker in his will (who may be Ella Tucker) and left her his property in Cincinnatti, Ohio, on which he erected a building in 1861. William Tucker also left his property at Fourth and Park Streets in Cincinnatti, Ohio to his daughter Sophia. Sophia does not appear in the census of 1880 as with the rest of the family taken shortly before William's death nor is she ever listed among the children of Mina. In a listing of Ella Tucker Nichols's heirs in the Mina Tucker probate documents, it also refers to a Sophia Lippelman. This was all recently confirmed when contact was made with Lippelman family descendants who confirmed that Sophia Tucker Lippelman was Ella’s sister and they had a different mother named Mary.
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