Mildred Tucker Hardcastle

Mildred Tucker Hardcastle was born in 1886 in Bowling Green, Kentucky to James Harvey Tucker and Minnie Carpenter Tucker. After graduating from Bowling Green High School, Mrs. Hardcastle attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

From there on, Mildred lived an active life as a genealogist, historian, wife, and member and founder of various groups. Mildred married Mr. John Vernon Hardcastle on August 26, 1925. She became a member of the National Society of the Daughter of the American Revolution and was a member of the Samuel Davies chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also the founder of seven chapters of the organization and was the founder of the Charles Duncan chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. She was founder and past president of the Warren County Historical Society, a state organizing regent of the Daughters of the American Colonists, and a charter member of the National Huguenot Society, for which she served as president of the state society. She was a member of the Magna Carta Dames and Barons, the Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century, the Founders and Patriots of America, the Washington Family Descendants, and Washington’s Army at Valley Forge. Mildred was also a charter member of the Museum Associates and was a member of the WKU Century Club and the First Christian Church.

To honor her over 60 year service in the DAR, a special committee of the Samuel Davies Daughters of the American Revolution established the Mildred Tucker Hardcastle Scholarship Fund in 1989 with assistance from the Charles Duncan Sons of the American Revolution and other friends of Mrs. Hardcastle. Mildred passed away on April 11, 1994. However, even with her passing her legacy lives on in perpetuity through the fund in her name. Each year this fund helps deserving Warren County high school graduates studying American History at WKU.