Person:John Tullis (90)

1880 Census Place:Eufaula, Barbour, Alabama Source:FHL Film 1254002 National Archives Film T9-0002 Page 21B RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace John W. TULLISSelfMMW40SC Occ:Cotton BuyerFa: SCMo: SC Mary C. TULLISWifeFMW33AL Occ:Keeping HouseFa: SCMo: SC Charles D. TULLISSonMSW11AL Occ:Attends SchoolFa: SCMo: AL John W. TULLISSonMSW8AL Occ:Attends SchoolFa: SCMo: AL Clayton TULLISSonMSW5AL Occ:At HomeFa: SCMo: AL Mollie TERRYOtherFSMU23GA Occ:Dom. ServantFa: ---Mo: --- Lafayette O'BRIENOtherMSB20AL Occ:Dom. ServantFa: ---Mo: ---

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See some information about John W. Tullis in: History of Barbour County, Alabama Author: Thompson, Mattie Thomas. City of Publication: Eufaula, Ala. Publisher: unknown Date: c1939

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See much more extensive information in: Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people. (Vol 1, pp 466-468) Authors: Taylor, Hannis, Wheeler, Joseph, Clark, Willis G. Clark, Thomas Harvey. Herbert, Hilary A. Cochran, Jerome, Screws, William Wallace. City of Publication: Madison, Wis. Publisher: Brant & Fuller Date: 1893

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See article about John W. Tullis in the Tullis Tracer, Vol. 2, No. 3&4: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tullis/TullisTracer/Vol2No3&4.pdf

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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) JOHN W. TULLIS. - Among the names conspicuous in the commercial circles of Barbour county none has added more luster to the city of Eufaula than that of John W. Tullis, for a number of years one of the leading cotton merchants of the southern Alabama. Mr. Tullis was born in Edgefield district, S. C., October 3, 1839, and is the son of P. T. and Mary A. (Beall) Tullis, both parents natives of the same state. P. T. Tullis, a planter by occupation, moved his family to Macon county, Ala., when John W. was but six months old, and after residing in that part of the state until 1859, moved to the county of Pike, where he died in 1882, and his wife four years later. John W. Tullis spent the first sixteen years of his life on a farm. The educational advantages afforded him in youth were not of the best nor were they meager, but through the avenues of subsequent years of wide business experience, and being naturally of strong intellect and keen discerning powers, he has become possessed of a well informed mind, recognized wisdom and sound judgment. He had the honor of holding a lieutenant's commission in the first company accepted by the Confederate government, Hardway's battery, which he joined early in the spring of 1861, and immediately thereafter departed for the seat of war in Virginia, where he received his first baptism of fire in the bloody battle of Bull Run. Subsequently he took part in all the principal battles of the Virginia campaigns, including the seven days' fight around Richmond, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness and Gettysburg, Penn., in the last of which his left foot was shot away at the ankle, leaving him helpless upon the field and a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, after the Confederate army had retired from the scene of conflict. He was sent first to the hospital at Gettysburg, thence to Fort McHenry, and later to Point Lookout, where he was exchanged after a confinement of nine months' duration. Returning to Columbus, Ga., Mr. Tullis was placed in command of an artillery company raised for home protection, and at the close of the war engaged in the warehouse business at that place until the fall of 1866, at which time he came to Eufaula and began dealing in cotton, which he still carries on. He is the largest buyer and exporter of that commodity in Barbour county, and one of the most extensive dealers in the south-eastern part of the state, and his flattering success since locating in Eufaula bears unmistakable testimony to the superior business qualifications which he possesses. Mr. Tullis has always been identified with the public movements of his city and county is public spirited and active in everything of a progressive character, and Eufaula owes much of its present prosperity to the lively interest which he has ever manifested in the promotion of its leading enterprises. He was the prime mover, and is now the principal stockholder, in the electric light and gas work, was the leader of the agitation which resulted in the establishing, at Eufaula, of the cotton factory of which he is president, and no one has borne a more prominent or untiring part in the work of bringing about and placing upon a solid foundation the present efficient system of free schools, the pride of the town and the equal of any educational system in the state. He is chairman of the educational board of Eufaula, and also a director in five of the lines of the central railroad system. This in brief is the story of a long and very active business life, in which the record is untarnished by a single dishonorable transaction. Success has attended all of Mr. Tullis' efforts, and a comfortable future is the result of a long and honorable consecration to the business enterprises in which he haste been engaged. He takes an active part in political affairs, and though not a place seeker himself, has been untiring in behalf of friends whom he considers worthy of official preferment. Mr. Tullis is the father of three living children, of whom he feels deservedly proud, and it is but justice to observe that no finer family lives within the boundaries of Eufaula. The names of these children are as follows: Charles D., member of the cotton firm of Chaffin & Tullis, Ozark, Ala.; John W., graduate of the university of Alabama, and Clayton L., in the hardware business at Eufaula, the last two being twin partners. A fourth son, Robert W., died in infancy. The mother of these children, Mary C. Woods, whom Mr. Tullis married in 1867, is the daughter of Clayton R. Woods, a member of one of the old and respectable families of Eufaula. Mrs. Tullis was born and reared in Barbour county, and is a lady of many noble qualities of mind and heart. From: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/barbour/bios/gbs108tullis.txt File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 12, 2004, 10:25 pm