Milton Lee Tucker was born on March 8, 1896, in Grimesland, North Carolina. Tucker was a farmer in Pitt County, North Carolina, upon the outbreak of World War I. The Eastern District Exemption Board overturned a ruling by the county board to exempt this young man. He was subsequently enlisted for service in March 1918 and served overseas September 1918 to June 1919. He was honorably discharged in July 1919. Tucker died in Chicod (Pitt County) on June 13, 1956.