Pvt. Luther Rucker: Houston, TX Riot 1917 Camp Logan Series

Luther Rucker was born 1893 in Georgia, he enlisted Jan 1913 into the Army, 23rd Inf, 3rd Bat, Comp. I.



Inmate # 12274 Leavenworth 
Crime: Mutiny & Murder
Rec: 10 Dec 1917
Term: Life
was paroled around 1928 according to his clemency documents below.
















The 1920 census shows him in Leavenworth and this is the only record I found. I made him a tree on Ancestry.


A lovely lady sent me this newspaper clipping from 1927:





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