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. WILLIAM FLOYD TULEY
EXPLANATORY
The ideathtoughout this book is a family tree, to designate seven ge1ien1'tious.:=::- -:The first generation is the trunk; secou<l, forks; -third, limh-s-; Jourth, l>ranche3; fifth, twigs; sixth, buds; seventh, fruit; T--0e~·1ettf:'r b. i"l for born, d. dead or died, div. divorced; m.-martfod, '03 means 1803. etc. Before 1800 the full year is giveriand after 1899 the full year is gi\'en. The use of the maiden name of the wives in all cases is to pre,·ent confusion as to which Mary or Elizabeth or Jane is under di;:cnssion. In every case a Tuley or desceudent of a Tuley is plact d first in the marriage relntiou.
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The children of Jo•eph Tuley nnd Nancy Drownlee were Balintla, who marr:ed Charles Strother of Virgina, brother of Mildred Strotht>r who nl'-trrie<l Wyatt P. Tuley; Sar<1h who married Major Wright, a prominent lawyer of ·Missouri; Mary who married Henry Mitchell, and Joseph Tuley who married Mrs. Mary Jnc!<s)n, widow of DI". Thomas Jackson, U.S. N. Joseph Tuley, known aR the Colo:iel, b'l.d no children He succee<lt·d his fath ... r, in the m1nagement of the ..-state at the Tuleyries, anct at his de·1th in 18.30, h:s nie::es. Mr<. Wright and Mrs. Balinda Boyce, resi<led tbt>re mnny years. The latter died a few years ago. Desc ·ndentR of ,Joseph Tuley, Mary Tuley Jal•kson and Fanny Archer Jackson resi.le in Washington City, and l\Iiss M11ry E. :mtchell a great grirnd daughter of Jo'leph Tuley resides nt Staunton, Va. To the latter the writer of this book is indebted for much valuabld information, in reference to the ancel'!try of Joseph Tuley. She i ➔ fh-mly of the opinion that Joseph and Ch11rles Tuley were own cous:ns; that Jonathan was thelatter's urotber, and thnt they emig-rnted from New Jersey to Virginia in their voung manhood. If this supposition is correct, Thomas Tuley and Mary Scott were the parents of Charles Tuley. Which is correct, [ am unable to determine, 80 I.leave the questiou, as to whether Peter Tult>y, the Tuley buried at Williamsburg, or Tho:n'.1s Tuley is the real progenitor of Charles Tuley, to the Tuleys and their descendents, still above ground, for fut u · e de termination
Whether ornot tbti :'•tley,1,(pronounced Twn-ley not Tooley) brought from over the ~ea a coat of arms is immaterial, at anyrate no Lion, rampant; Bear, couchant; Tigt>r or Leopard, pnssant; Elk, trippant; or E 1gle, pend·mt; haq appeared as the armor=al beo.riug of the family, but it is .. trongly asserted that 1he Tule)S bad a c.:ir.t of arms in France.
Many yearsago,tbe late Judge Murray F. Tuley of Chicago, fisit1 d South C.trolina to investig-.:ite the orignal line. He also \"isited the Tuleyries in Virginin,and having seen in the novel,
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"Ebrn Hol<len," a meutiuu of Tuley lake and TulPy creek in tlrn Adirondack I\fouutuin r'"'giou went thither. While there he fish::.d for trout and incidently, made search of the records to find out al>out the Tult>ys, but only learutd that-a family of that name had rt sided thete many years befoie, and was the posse:ssor of large landed property, but that the family had long since died, or those left of it, hcd removed to the we,,t.
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says tlmt when John Floyd was nmlim,hetl one er two o{ hi!! hrother,,,•in-law wern nlc10 shot. At the time of ld,1 ilenth l 'harJe,.; Floyd and Alc:mnder Breckenridge wne witii the Colonel wlicu the fo:mer, alnrndoning his hon:e nud jumping>tlp 1,ehiud the Colmwl bore !Jim in his arms to lheir liome five mile,; away where he died r!rnt night
Where or when ChnrleiJ Tdey dh.d is uot d..finiti,]y knowu hnt be ruuet have beeu alive late iu !he year 1786, n:-1 bis lm;t wEl aEd testament was pmbnted in the Jeffernon County Court iii :o the E-pring of 1787, In all probability his 1etm.iuM "were bmieJ at or near F!oyd's For!t or nt the old burying g10:mds a~ .MiJ<l~~n. .
One oi the legends of the family i:5 to the efi'ect that Clrn1 le~ :vua a 100.n of commanding pre~ence, po,i;!les~ei of fine education and the courage of the enrly Croutiimm1en thnt urnde him ,md them ready and willing to uu<lergonny lmrdship to oouquer tht> grent Northwcss, His clustj as,;ociat.iou witl1 men like Ju!rn Floyd, Alex Breckenridge and George H, ,gen, Clm·k sbow,i him to have been a le!\ding spirit nmong the pivuerrs of Kt·ntUt:ky.
Wns admitted to probate iu the cauuty court at Louisvilie March 6th. 1781, aod is reeorded in m:nute l>ook No, L pn~e iO, The wiH is 'fery ebort, not givi!lg the ni1me3 .o{ wife or auy of the children. 1t 11dvise'> that the t'S:i.te, iuc!udi11g ,:;Jave-:, be kept together for th~ nHe aud heue:fit of Lis 'IVif<l aud d1ildn IL
Johu Tuley, Jr, at1d Alex Bred,euridge ,·r~ named ns exen1tors. Tuley, Jr. qu,1Hfi.ed lmt no recor.l oi h,s report of ~eltlement, could lie found,
On page 23 of minute book No. 3 was found, under date 1791, thenpplkatfon of WiUiam F. Tuley and Sarnh Tuley, miuor children of Charle~ Tuley to hiive EJi7_,11ueth Floyd Tuley appointed thtir gu:uxlian, The same entry stets forth !hat she w,,s
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also appointed guardian of Wyatt P. Tuley, l\faryTuley, Robert Tuley and Jane Tuley, other orphan children of Charles Tuley deceased. John Tuley, Jr. and Ale:< Breckenridge were the sureties for the guardianship.
It will be seen that Charles P. Tuley, who is in the list as the eldest son of Charles Tuley does not uppear in the ret-'Ord, he doubtless having attained full age at that time.
JoaN TuLET, JR. executor of the last will of Charles Tuley wna in all probability a nephew or a cousin of Charles. A John Tuley,son of Jonathan, elsewhere mentioued,disappeared from Virginia in early manhood, and was never beard from. In corresponding with relatives in that state, they express the bt>lief that John Tuley, Jr. is the missing man. It may be possible that this is the correct solution. There is a possibility that he was a brother of Charles and a son of Thomas who ma.rried lfary Scott. At any n1te be must have been a near relative of Charles, else he would not have selected him as executor. John's name is not found, in the records of Jefferson County, Ky. after 179'2.
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CHARLES TULEY of Farquier Co., Va., later of Jt>fferson Co., Ky. was marrie:l to Elizabeth Floyd, daughter of Uol. William Floyd and Abndiah Davis of Amherst Co., Va. about the year 1769. They are regarded as ihe trunk of the tree. From this union the following children were born;
Ft1rks, I. •CaARLES PRESTON Tuu:Y, b. about 1771, m. 1793 Eliza! eth Murrny of Louisville. He di£d at ~pring~ille Clark Co., Ind. in '02. • It will be oh..erved thnt the nnnte Preston rrc,1ucntly occun In the Tuley line. lt would lndtcnte that a Preston had married a Tuley, but thla is not the case. The Floyd family in Virginia where socially and In a buelneH way very Intimate with the family of Col. William Ptt111ton. Ellsaheth Floyd prob1tbly numed her aona (.'harles and Wyatt In honor of Wm. Pre•tnn by uddlng Preston, to their chrl•tlan names. It Is a little slngularthat In the line of Wm. Floyd Tuley the fRmlly name, Bell, wal' not given to a single rlc•cendent.
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WILLIAM FLOYD TutEY, second ,on of Charles and Elizabeth Floyd Tuley, was born in Virgiuia in 1773. He came with his mother and family to Kentucky to join her bu~hnnd in the fall of 1783, and took up their resideneti at or uear the stockade at Floyd's Fork, about 16 miles east of Louisville. Here she underwtint the trials and tribulations of frontier life in rearing her family, and keepiug watch against the ·approach of the savage. Tradition says that she was a very tall, dark complexioned woman, a person of rare intelligence and tact.
The early life of William Floyd Tuley is little known. I have as a memento his license to mnrry Jane Bell, 11 woman of promint>nce at that time, issued by J. W. Gwarthney,clerk of the Jefferson County, Ky. court. This bears date June 30th. 1798, and on the back is registered the fact that the ceremony- was pronounced July 4.
After the marriage the couple settled on a farm near Middletown where they remained until 1800,when they removed to Springville, Clark, Co. Indiana Territory, then the county seat, but long siuce·extinct. In April 1801 he was appointed constable of Springville township, and Charles Floyd, a kinsman was appointed constable of Clarksville township. At that time Clark County including ull the territory now embraced in the counties of Clark, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, Washington, Orange, Harrison and Floyd. The extent of territory over which these high constables were compelled to range in those early times, fnruisbed ample opportunity for adventure and hair raL"ling by the Indians, but if they made any narrow escapes a record of the facts have faile<l. to come down to tbis generation.
In 1&02 Gov. William Henry Harrison commissioned W. F. Tuley as Leiutenent of the Militia for Clark County. I ba'l'e the commission, endorsed on the back by Col. Bariholmoew Major :Marl!ton G. Clark and Capt. Davis Floyd, together with a roster of Capt. Floyd's company.
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Cot. W1LLIAll W. Tut_EY, was in the l\fexican War, and during the Civil War wus a general of the militia of Indiana, doing service on the border. He served many years as city clerk of New Albany and also as county clerk. In 1880 he was a member of the State Legislature. For over twenty-five years he pr-dcticed law and was master in chancery in the Floyd Circuit Court. His handsome residence on Sih·er Hills was the headquarterd for the Tuley families, all beiug acconled a hearty and hospitable welcome by the Colonel and his wife. Many happy reunions were held there and especially large were the gatheing on Sundays in the beautiful summer time.
SQUIRE GEORGE W. TULEY is the distinguished agricultural, horticultural, and Jloricultw-al authority of the family. He has reduced to a science the theory that ''blessed is the man who can make two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before." He is still rifling at 4, o'clock daily, having a contract to inhale all the surplus ozone on the Silver Hills where his surburban home is locuted. The Squire seems to delight in the beauties, and relates with much gusto many l1igends and hunting adventures of the Siher Eills. So greatly has he become attached to the locality that he recently erected a handsome mausaleum on the brow of the hill overlooking the city, where he expects bis remains will be entombed when "life's fitful fever is o'er'',
EDWARD PRESTON Tutu, third son of Col. P. F. Tulev went to Shepbardsville, Ky. when a boy and learned the saddlery and harness business. He married there Julia Orme, by w hem he reared a goodly family. After the Civil War he returned to New Albany and estnblished a Sa.ddlery house, which he conducted until the time of his ,Jeath.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TULEY, was a steamboat joiner mnny years but subsequently became Deputy County Clerk, serving in that capacity a number of years. He was a jolly good fellow numbering his friends by the hundreds. '
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SETH W. TULEY, was n soldier in, the Civil War and was adjutant on the staff of Gen. Ch,is. Cruft, of the army of the Cumberland. He was a guol soldit-,r aud n competent officer, never shirking any duty, llowever difficult or dungerous. After· the c1ose of the the war he engaged in the insumnce business but subsequently went to Wa,ihington city where he obtained a place in the Post Office Department, which he still con· tinue,i to fill satisfactorily.
RowEx BooNE TULEY, sou of S. W. Tuley is a chip off the old block. He was private secretary to Senator Blackbum of Kentucky for years, then acceptt d n like position with Senator S:inires. For the past several years behas·been oneofthechief clerks in the Rmal Delivery Division of the gt"nem1 Post Office· · Department. ·
THOMAS J. Tot.~:Y, studied law aud moved to Lognnsport, Ind. where he was city. attomey several years. A few years ago he removed to Chicago, and was hi the office of the Sheriff o(CookConnty, but is nowassistantcorporationcouncil of Chicago. Thomas claims . to have possession of his grand-· fathers sword, aiso a bowi from ,which; iri the language of the posses,;er, his grandpa •·Jnpped his liquor or pounded his corn while hwiting redskins."
CoL. THOMAS D. SEoowwx, who married Priscilla B. Tuley wns Commander of the seco1id U.S. C. Volunteers during' the Civil War and did iine service. Dur;ng the latter part of the war he commanded a brib,ade. After the death of his wife he married a Heeond time in Wnshington City, ihe lntterwife s1ii1 surviving his death which occured about. ten years ago.
The two sons of the above, Thomas D. Sedgwick, Jr. ancl Charles St dgwick are prosperous business men. The former is now located at Los Angeles, Cal. and the latter resides at Cumberland, i\Id. from which point he travels for a large Pbiludelphia house.
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C/tild of Col. W. W. Tuley and Charlotte Riddle
Fu1~<;. WILLIA~( ADDISON -TULEY, b. '57, m. 1905 .Josephine Mary Hornby at Fort Worth, Texas.
WILLIAM A. TULEY, is a prominent man in northern Texas, where for many years he was engnged as General Passenger Agent of trunk line railroads. He is now in busines~ at Stevensville, Texas.
Children of G. t-V. Tuley and Kate h.vans
I, PRESTON FLOYD TULEY, b. '55, d. '89. 2. GEORGE W. TULEY, Jr. d. '63. J. (By second wife Compton,) HARJUET TULEY, b. '74.
Children of E. P. Tuley and Julia Orme
Twigs, I. MARY TULEY, d.
2. LILLIAN M. TULEY, b. '57, m. '81 Chas. Hill, d. 1905. J. Wn,LIAll PRESTON TuLEY, h '58, m. '83 Ella S. Logan
b. '60, d. '96; m. '98 Sarah J. Musset, b. '72. 4 SALLIE TULEY, b. '60, m. Judge Walter A. Clemen is
of Morganfield, Ky. b. '53. s. GEORGE F. TULEY, d.
6. LOTTIE R. TULEY, d.
7. CHARLES P. TULEY, b. '67 unmarried.
8. JESSE JoNES TULEY, m. '94 Carrie Denn, div; m. '99, Etta Ruby.
WILLIAM PRESTON TULEY is a successful farmer, business man and late engaged in the banking business at New Haven, near Carmi, Ill., ,vhere he resided many years. He is now President of the First National Bank at New Haven.
JESSE J. TULEY resides at St. Louis, having <iharge as conductor of one of the Trunk Line passenger trains.
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Children ef Lilli/111 Tuley ,md Charles Hill Spri11gfieid, Mo.
Buds, I, JuLtA HILL, b. '83. 2. LILLIAN HILL, b. '89. ,J. CLINTOS HILL, b. '92.
Cl1iidren of H~ P. Tuley am/ Ella Logan New Ha11en, Iii.
Buds, I, EDITH FAY TULEY, b. '85. d. '86. 2. Lucy TULEY, d. '87. 3· MATHEW s. TULEY, b. '88.
By Second Wife 4, MARY E. TULEY, b. 1902. 5. WxLLIAll RoBERT TULEY, b. 1904.
Children of Sallie Tt,ley and Judge Clements Union Co., ky.
Buds, r. BALDWIN CLEME!'ITS, b. '86. 2, TULEY CLEMENTS, b. '88. 3. LILLIAN CLEMENTS, b. '89. 4. Locy CLEMEXTS, b. '9'2. 5. CLARENCE CLEMESTS, b. '94. 6. EARL CLEMENTS, b. '96.
Children of Jesse J. Tuley and Carrie Denny. div. St. Louis, Mo.
Buds, I, EDWARD TULEY b. '95. By Etta Ruby
2. Baby TULEY, d.
Children of B. F. Tuley and Esther Sherrer
Twigs, I, loA TULEY, d, 2, EDWARD TULEY, d. J. ALlCII: TULEY, d.
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I, WILLIAM TuLEY BRUCKER, b. '92. 2, SEDGWICK BRUCKER b. 96
Children of S. W. Tuley and* Nathalie Peters , . Washington City
Twigs, I, Row AN BOONE Tuu:Y, b. '67, m. Gertrude
2, FANNY TULEY, b. '69. F. Lowney.
J. BLA.~CBE TULEY, b. '71, d. '94.
Children of R. B. Tuley and Gertrude Lowney lVashington City
Buds, I• FRANCES TuLEY, b. '97. 2. ELIZABETH FLOYD TULEY, b. 1903.
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:twigs, MARY AGNES TULEY, b. '80, m. 1904 Dr. E. M. Bice of Edinburg, Ind. One child d. in a few days
2. (By Anna Titer) MURRAY F; TulEY.
J. HAROLD RAYMOND TULEY
Children of John I-Vesley Tuley and Plto,be H. 1f1'oodruff New Al/Jany, Ind,
Bra11ches, J, JoBN W. TULEY, b. '27, d. '56, m. '53, Martha Armstrong, no issue.
2. SALLIE W. TatEY,. d. '61. m. '55 Gorham Tufts, d . . no issue.
•The lineage ofthe Peten famll7 of Woodford Co., K7,gon back to and be7ond the anceston of the famous Capt. Ashb7 of Revolutionary fame.
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WILLIAill FLOYD TULEY, elJest son of M. D. Tuley, began his career on thi, river about the time Mark Twain was Ian.ming piloti_ng. His uncle Capt. Ismel C. Woodrutl', one among the best pilots on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was his in• stmc\or, nn:l within three ycnrs Tnley wns n full fledged pilot, sen·iug therPafter a numbttr of years in thnt capacity 011 some of the palatial steamers plying between Louisville nnd Nc\f Orleans. On the brt'l\king out of th~ Civil War he was appointed master and pilot in the MiBBiBSippi Squadron, serving under Admirals Foote, Davis, Porter and Farragut. He participated in the engngements at Island No. 10, Plum Point, Memphis, St. Charles, up White river, Haines' Bluff, Vicksburg, Grund Gulf, Pt. Hudson and Alexandria. He took the gunboat Essex past the bntteries at Vicksburg in 1862, and wu n\ the wheel of that gunbont when she destroyed the Coufedernte ram, Arkansas, above Baton Rouge. He wus also at the wheel of the Benton,
leading Admirnl Porter's fleet when i* ran the batteries at Vicksburg in 1868, to attack Grand Gulf and ferry Grant's army ncross the river to attact Vicksburg.
After the war Mr. Tuley became city editor of the Ne,v Albany Commercial after which he served in like capacity on the Ledger until 1872, when he became Indiana editor of the Louisville Commercial, serving about twenty years on the last named journal. Mr. Tuley is past Commander of the Now Albany Couunnndery, Knights Templar, and also passed the chairs in other Masonic bodies. The frontispiece is 11 fair likeness of the above.
Wunn WOODBURY TULEY, second aonof M. D. Tuley, was o. promising young man at the opening of the Civil War. A !ow weeks after entering the qun.rtermnsters department at Cairo, Ill., he wn11 taken ill of typhoid fever and died. Charles Milo, a younger brother was a proJperous young business man when be died in 1876.
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Cltilrlren of W. F. Tuley and ,'rlary G. Knepjly
Tw,:1;s, I, WALTER FLOYD TULEY, b. • 64. 2. RosE JULIA TULEY, b. '65, m. '89 Charles Earl Currie J. LAWRENCE KNEPFLY TULEY, b. 81.
Children of Rose J. Tuley and Cl1as, Earl Currie Louisville, Ky. ·
Buds, I, MARGARET FLOYD CuRRIE, b. '90. 2. HARRY SHERMAN CURRIE, b, '94. J. GEORGE EARL CURRIE, b. '96. 4, FLOYD TULEY Cunarn, b. '98.
W J.LTER FLOYD TULEY is the oldest son of W. F. Tuley. He was educated in the New Albany public schools, reared in a journalistic atmosphere, and was first employed on the reportorial staff of the Louisville Post, which he left to assume a stage career. Being a lover of Shakespeare, he devoted the first four years . to acting, his specialty being comedy roles, his greatest success being "Pecks Bad Boy."
It was at this time he assumed the nome de theatre "Walter Floyd" to please his parents, who at that time were opposed to his chosen calling. He finally drifted into managerial work and was business manager for the late :Madam Juunesheck during the heighth of her career. At her suggestio11 he decided to devote his talents to advance work, in which field he has been eminently successful, having risen to the front rank in that important branch of his profession. During the season of 1905 he was the resident manager of . the Duquesne Theatre at Pittsburg. His present home is in New York City, where he was recently made a life member of the Scottish Rite bodies of that city.
LAWRENCE KNEPFLY TULEY, younger brother of Walter, is a graduate of Indiana University at Bloomington, also a graduate of the New Albany Business College. Like Walter he is
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2 . .. (By U. Heth) ELIZABETH Gw IN J. FRA!'IX L. Gwi.N
The two latter dyi~g in infancy
Cllildren of Emily Gwin and G, W. Carbu Tt1rre Haut,-
Jlu,ls, 1. MARCI\ CARBEE, d. 2. G. W. CARBEE, Jr.
Cliild n/ M. A. Tuley and J. S. Mc R,u N;t'W Albany, Ind.
,. ELIZABETH B. McRAE, b. '71, m. '9l Frederic!, M. Whyte of Haltimore, Md.
Cht1tlren of E. B, M~Rtu ami F. M. Whyte· Tarrytown, N. Y.
Huds, t, MARION WIIYTE, b. '94. 2. BEATRICE WnYTE, b. '99. J. ELIZABETH WHYTE, b. 1906.
ChiMrm ,f Victor, M. Tuley and M. L. Flici.:11er t1f ,lfissot1ri
/,'ranclus, r. Twins not named. J. MARION :·Fn,\NCIS TULEY, . b. '86, m. '66 Marcella
Georgiauu Stewart, u. '46, d. '76, m. '79 Mrs. Lee H. Saxon b. ·57, <liv., m. l\farh7llretta Green, div., m. '94 Elizabeth Shafer Suttou.
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Children of Hden .M. Tuley and James Crook New Albm1,,, Ind.
Branches, I. ELIZABETHCaooK, d.-'87, m.GeorgeHuff, b. ':J.7. 2. EDWIN CaooK, b. '33, d. 1905, m. Elizabeth Robiusou
d. m. Bettie Daniels. J. MARY VIRGINIA CROOK, m. Philip Franck. EDWIN CROOK was a brick mason working many yPars under
his father who was a large building contractor. He mo\·ed to Illinois in early manhood where he married his first wife. He then wenttoOwensboro, Ky. where he married n second time. Here he engaged in contract work, erecting many large buildings. He was many years chief of police of Owensboro, but lost his eyesight and was compelled to retire. The last three years of his life he was totally blind. His death occured in 1905.
Chz'ldrpt of Elizabeth Crook. and George Hu.ff Galesburg, Ill.
Twigs, I, BENJAMIN HUFF. 2. HELEN HuFF, m. '72 Theodore Salveter.
Children of Ed. Crook and E. Robinson Owensboro, Ky.
I. JAMES W. CROOK, d. m. one child, Dorothy. 2, CHARLES CnooK, m. no issue. J. GEORGE CROOK. 4. VICTOR CaooK, m. t,vo children. s. (By second w. Daniel) DAISY Caoox, b. '78, m. '91 6. ALLEN CnooK, m. wifed. no issue. LT. J. Lea. 7, LEROY CnooK, 8. SETH P. CROOK. 9. CLIFTON CnooK, m. 1905Alice .Pruitt atShi·eveport,La.
IO, EUNICE Cnoox. II, MAYBELLE CROOK, I 2. RUTH CROOK,
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C/1i/dren of Daisy Crook and T. J. Lea Owensboro, Ky,
Buds, I. ELZIE LEA.
2. DAISY LEA,
J. DuVAL LEA, died in infancy.
Son of Helen Hu.ff and T. Salve/or
I. THEODORE SALVETOR Ja.
CJ1ildrm of Mary Virginia Crcok'and Philip Franck New Al/Jany, Ind,
Twigs, J. HELEN FRANCX, b. '58, d. '85, m. Alonzo Hnrrell, b. '57, d. '86 no issue.
I, PBILIP FRANCK, Jr. b. '61, m: Stella Struble.
Clu'ldren ~/ P. Franck and Stella Struol, McAllister, Oklahoma
Buds, I, PHILIP FRANCK, b. '89. 2, LLOYD FRANCK, b. '90. J. HELEN FRANCK, d.
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Wu TT PRESTO~ TULEY, fouit11. child of Charles Tuley was a pioneer settler of Clark Co., Indiana. He was many years a magistrate of that couuty and when Floyd County was separated from Clark and Harrison, was appointed one of the commis· !lioners to run the boundary lines. He subsequently took up his residence in New Albanywbere be was engaged in mercantile pursuits until his death in 1827, His first wife was drowned in the Ohio river above J efl'ersonville. His second wife survived him many years
Children of W.,atl P, T11le,i"and Mz'ldnd Slrotlter New Albany, Ind.
Limbs, .I MARGARET TULEY, b. '01, d. m. Morgan Campbell, d.
2, DR. CH.ABLES STROTHER TULEY, b. '03, d. '44, m. '29, s~all Adams b. 1797, d. '86 .
.J, BE.~JAMIN S. TULEY, b. '05, d. '43, bachelor. 4, ELIZABETH ToLEY, b. '11, m. '30 Nathaniel R. Wicks, d. s. MARY (POLLY) TULEY, m. Mr. Strain, d. remo\"ed to
Oregon. 6. JULIA ANN TULEY, b. '20, d. '69, m. Charles R.
Minor who died in 1904, · No issue by second wife Warner.
Da. Cw.Rt.Es STROTHER Tutu, came here from Rockville, Iudiana, about 1832 and engaged in mercantile buisness with his brother Benjamin, Their residence was two miles below the city in whnt is now known as the Hanlon place. Benjamin held several public offices and served in the legislature. Hecame within one vote of being elected Leiutenaut Governor of the state in 1840.
Children of Dr. Chas. S, Tuley and Susan Adams
Branches, I, CHARLES PRESTON TULEY, b. '80, d. '99, m.
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'55 Mary T. McCrea; m. '61, Ada Worley l\fason. 2, MARYE. TuLEY, b. '31, ct. '63. J• LYD[A ANN TULEY, b. '33, , d. '69. 4, STROTHER B. TULEY, b. '35 and STROTHER B. TuLEt 2nd.
b. '38 both died young.
CHARLES PRESTON TULEY, son of Dr. Chas. S. Tuley attained considerable prominence ia Indiana. He was many years en-gaged in mercantile and manufacturing business in Bloomington and Indianapolis. He was a leading Odd Fellow and Knights of Pythias and a very zealous advocate of tempnance, morally and politically. He died at Indianapolis in 1899 and was buried at Bloomington.
Children of C. P, Tuley and Mary T. McCrea
Twigs, I, ANN MARY l'uLEY, b. '67, m. Jas. B. Posey of New Orleans, d; one child James Malcom Posey.
2, ELLA LYDIA TULEY, b. '60, m. '91 Frank H. Scott of Massachucetts, d. 1906; one son Francis Tuley Scott, no issue by second wife, Addie Worley Mason.
Chz1dren of Mary (Plllly )Tuley and Strain
I, ANNA STRAIN, 2, JULIA STRAIN.
Children of Elizabeth Tuley and Nathaniel R. 1,-Vicks, Bloomington, Ind.
Limbs, · I, BENJ. STROTHER WrcKs, died young. 2. RAYMOND LEWIS W1cxs1 ,died young, J, MARY ELIZABETH WrnKs, m. '64 William Thomas 4. CHARLES PLATT WICKS, died young. [Brodix, d. 5. CAROLINE JULIA WICKS, d. 6, WYATT W. W1oxs, m. Sallie McFeteredge, d. 1905. 7, PRISCILLA W10Ks, m. Samuel Shelper, d.
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C,Wdrm of Eliz11~dh Wicks and vi-: T. Brudix
Brancltn, 1. CaARLF.S RAYMOND Bnootx, m. Josephine Weedman .
.1. CuoL!NE N. Baoorx, m. '82 Henry T. Simmons. J. Eow1'.'f S. B!10on:, m. Nellie Coffin, one son, Wyntt
Coffin Brodix. 4. l!ARY ELIZABETH Baoorx, m. '92 Albert V. Ferris, one
son, Frank Brodi:t Ferris s.. Fa.ANKLIN T. Baonn:.
Cltildrm of C. R. Bradix and jouj,lzin1 Wudman
Twigs, ,. Jom, WEEDlU.N BRoo,x. 2. CHARLES R. BBODIX,
.J. MERCEDES Bacon:, died young 4. THOlUS B110DIX •
.5. JosEPHJN.t BRooxx.
Cliildren of Caroline N. Brodix and H, T. Simtno!fs Bioomingio1t, iii.
Twip, I, CA.ROLINE ETHEL Stl!?il.ONS,
2. Tuollas WYATT Suuwss. 3. HARRY BRODIX Sn,1110:ss,
4. R1cru.ao B. SnnroMs. J. ALFRED B. SnrnoMs.
6. EDWIN J,UlEll SIJOlONS.
Cltildrm of Prisr:illa Wicks a111l Sam,ul Siu/per Bloomington, bid.
Twi~s. ,. Ev.i. SntLl'Ell, m. William I. Fee1 two chtidren. :1, MADEL SnELl'Ell,
3. AnTno11 SIIELPtR, dead.
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Children of Julia A. Tuley and C.R. Minor New Albany, Ind.
Brandies, I, MARY MINOR, married three times, Benj. Wolfe, Alex. Robinson, and Edward Fugit.
2, ZERELDA MINOR, d. in infancy. 3. RonERT HILDRED MINOR, m. Mary McCulloch. 4, CHARLES MINOR, d. '74. 5. WILLIAM STEWART MINOR, d. '63. 6. BENJAMIN MINOR, m. Laura Howard, two children. 7. MINNIE MINOR, m. '87 L. W. Allen.
Chz'ldren of Wyatt Wicks and_Salli'e McFeteredge Bloomington, Ind.
I, GRACE WicKs, m. -- Cunningham, one child, Dorothy. 2, BLANCHE M. WICKS, m. Kirkwood Meyers, one child d.
Chz'ldren of Mary Minor by Wo{fe; Robinson and Fugit
I, JULIA WoLFE1 m. Harry Friend, children, Isaac, Mary and Earl.
2. LORENA ROBINSON, m. James Applegate, no issue. J. MABELLE FuoIT, d., m. John Eicholz, no issue. 4. MARY GRACE FumT, m. Charles Martin, child, Karl
Martin, b. '99.
Children of R. H. Minor and Mary McCulloclt New Albany, Ind.
I. MARY M1NOR, m. Charles Dent Kelso. 2. HATTIE MINOR, m. Harry Hopkins. J. RoBERT McCULLOCH MINOR, m. Jennie Sowle.
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JosEPH TouY, b.1764, d.1825, m. Nancy Brownlee in 1787. He mo\·ed to Virginia when a young man and consequently was the bead of bis branch of the Tuley family in the old Dominion. His children were:
J, MARY TutEY, who m. Henry Mitchell. 2. BA.LINDA TuttY, who m. Charles Strother. They bad
a large family, many of their descendants now residing in Louisiana.
J. Cot. JosuH TutEY, b.1796, d.1860, m. Mary Jackson, widow of Dr. Jackson, U. S. N. No issue •.
4. SnAH Tutu, . m. Maj. Urial Wright of St. Louis Mo.
Among the children· of Mary Tuley was Joseph Tuley Mitchell who married in 1838 Sarah Nicholson Campbell. Their children were:
J, JosEl'H TotEY MITCHELL who m: Bettie W. Young. 2. FRANCES ANN MITCHELL who m. R. L. B. Loraine. J. EDNA MOORE MITCHELL who m. first, Aug. W. Greene.
2nd. Rev. Alfred W. Anson, son of the late Cannon Frederick Anson of Windsor, Eng., Chaplain to the late Queen.
4. AncHER THOMAS MtTCl!ELL, died unmarried. s. W1LL1u, C,ulPBELL MITCHELL, m. Lamar Renner. 6. Mut E. MITCHELL who still resides at Hillcrest, oear
Staunton, Va.
MARY AncaEn, daughter of Henry Mitchell and Mary Tuley m. 1839, Hall Neilson. A daughter, Mary 'l'uley Neilson, m. Rev. Augustus Jackson of Washington City. Mrs. Jackson and her daughter, Fanny Archer Jackson, still reside at the Capital. Another daughter, Mary Rowan Jackson, m. William Keurfott of New Jersey. The latter has two children, Thornton Campbell Kearfott and Mary Tuley Kearfott. The first named, Mrs. Mary R. Kearfott was elected at the last congress of D. A. R. a
· Vice-President General.
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SARAH TvLEY and Maj. Wright had n daughter, Balinda Wright, who m. N. L. Boyse of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Boyse resided many years at the Tuleyries before her death in 19)3. The latterleft two sons, Uriel Tlmxt.:m Boyse and Lawrence Wright Boyse.
BALIN DA STnOTUER MITCHELL, a descendent of Joseph Tuley m. William A. Gill of Columbus, 0. Their daughters, Lillie Thomas Gill, m. Earl Ulark Derby, and Frances Eugenia Gill, m. Theodore Smith, all of Columbus,. 0.
Rear Admiral C. M. Thomas, U.S. N., is a lineal descendent of Joseph Tuley; also George DeBeiuville Keim of Edgewater .Park, New Jersey, point to him as ancestor. The latter has two children, Geo. DeBeinville Jr. and Miss Lillie Thomas Keim.
Other deacendents of •Joseph Tuley intermarried with the Simpsons, of Virginia, Thomas' and Pleasentons, of Penn· sylvania and tile Johnsons; of Illinois.
There isa Joseph Tuley, a wealthy farmer in Michigan, who in all probability is a descendent of some ancestor of the Virginia Joseph Tuley.
•The list of names of the descendents of the nbove Is very voluminous If brought down to the present day; Those of the fnmily now living who nre fortunate enough to sec.ure a copy of this book cnn easily trace their ancestry back to the fountain bend.
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x-.---THE ·TULEY· WOMEN
. It would not be proper to omit some' mention of the feumle members of the family both of the blood and by marriage, but where there were and are so many really goo:i womt>u,all, at least 1warly all, having duriug life, had their full say, brief mention at this time is pardonable. Among them none were so brn\·e as Eliznbeth Floyd; none more kindly than Jane Bell; none more serious thl,ln Mildred Strother; uoneso stately as Priscilla Buckner; none more generous than Julia Ann Taylor; none more gentle than Helen Maria Crook; none more lovely 1h_un Mary Brown and Mary Jackson; none more motherly than M. C. Paxson, Phoebe H. Woodruff, Elizabeth Betterton and Mary L. Flickner; none more companionable than Kate Edmondson, and none more spirited than Julia A. l\finor. Those who succeed them are morally, physically and intellectually the equal of uny family in the land, and in communities where they collectively or severally reside, they are esteemed for their many womanly virtues, and.social qualities. Very few divorces appear on the records anywhere, which fact speaks volumes for the agreeableness of the 'ruley women, or in thunder tones of the meekness and forbearance of the Tuley men, Whichever horn of tlw dilemma the reader hitches to,will be safe anchorage for further <leliate. If the person is female and a Tuley by blood or mar• riage she will at_ once claim all the vi~tues. If male in the same relation be will sing low upon the question, if auyof the womcu happen to be near, or have their ear trumpets ready for a<ljustm ent.
The Fruit of this Tuley tree "Seventh Generation," are too small, green, perchance knotty,or mayhap wormy,to figme Jarg
. ely with the public, consequently I will leave them to work out their own salvation ai1d to the tender mercy of the future his• toriun and genealogical biographer.
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When Floyd County was formed out of Clark and Harrison in 1819. Davis Floyd, for whom the County was named, became the first judge. Although the Judge was mixed.up''in the al• leged Aaron Burr conspiracy, it did not seem to a !Teet his. pop• ularity or usefulness. When General Jackson became President he appointed the Judge as land commissioner of Florida. He died in that state about 1830. His will was probated iu Harrison County, Ind.
J oooE FLOYD, although opposed to slavery, was a man who liked official pomp and attention. He had 11 negro servant with the high sounding name to Pompey, but the Judge called him Pottowatamie. He never traveled without his black attendant. One day while traveling in the wilds of Indiana he was thrown from his horse while crossing a swollen creek. The Judge called lustily for Pompey to come quick to the rescue, else he would drown, to which the servant responded, but it was a fierce struggle to save the portly Judge from a watery grave. There· after Pottowatamie not only shared his master's confideuce but his good red liquor.
l\lAJon GEORGE RooEns CLARK FLOYD, second son of Col. John Floyd, distinguished himself as' a soldier, commanding the regulars at the battle of Tippacanoe. At the hour the Indians under Tecumseh made the attack upon General Harrison's camp, Major Floyd was asleep. The yells of the sa ,,ages awakened him and seizing his horse he mounted and rode into the fight, clothed only in his night dress. A soldier Eeeing his white clothes fluttering in the breeze, seized a cloak which he threw about the form of the Major, rendering his person a less conspicuous mark. Owing to the rigor of that campaign the health of .Major Floyd declined, he dying at his home near Cheerokee Park, Louisville, in 1821.
It is recorded in history that when the injured leg of Gen. George Rogers Clark was amputated at Ch1rksville, Indiana,
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