TULLES, David

MITCHELL, TULLES, SECREST, THOMPSON, ROUSH, HILL, WHEELER, HEATON, LAWSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 2/24/2006 at 22:14:08

On June 7, 1969, Capt. Harry E. MITCHELL (Ret.), 525 Newport Ave., Long Beach, California, sent the following TULLES information:

"David TULLES was born on May 22, 1787, in Loudoun Co., Va. In the war of 1812, he enlisted in the 1st Regiment (Connell's) of Virginia Militia. In 1813, his military service ended, he married Elizabeth SECREST in Hampshire Co., Va. (now W.Va). Elizabeth was born at Hoag Creek near Winchester, Va. on March 12, 1791. She was the daughter of Fredrick SECREST who was the son of Bartholomew SECREST who with his brother Michael had abandoned their castle on the Rhine River in Germany during the great exodus due to chaotic relitious (sic) conditions."

"The brothers arrived in America on Sept. 27, 1727, and in 1729, in Lancaster Co., Penn. They later moved to the Shenandoah Valley and then on to Ohio. Due to the burning, pillaging, and murdering by the Indians (hired by the English) the SECRESTs except Charles returned to Virginia. In 1809 to 1812, they moved west again to Ohio, and others to Missouri, Kansas and Texas."

"David TULLES and wife arrived at Pleasant Valley, Ohio, in 1813, where he built a tannery. Later they moved to Salt Spring (now Senacaville, Ohio). Two of their daughters married THOMPSONs. In 1830 David built a flour mill for each daughter. One mill was in Senacaville and the other a mile upstream where the dam for Seneca Lake now stands. One of the mills was later called the Campbell Mill."

"David and wife reared eleven children of whom one, Perry, our direct ancestor, was No. 6. Elizabeth died on July 12, 1849. She was buried near Pleasant City, Guernsey Co., Ohio, in the Hopewell Cemetery where a tombstone marks the grave."

"Years later, a granddaughter, Mrs. Simon SECREST, placed a memorial window in Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in memory of David and Elizabeth."

"On Dec. 20, 1849, David married a local milliner, Nancy ROUSH. The next year he traded his holdings in Ohio to Dr. Noah HILL for a tract of land in Batavia, Iowa. He also applied to the government for Bounty Land in 1850."

"Whie in Ohio, in 1830, David served one term in the Ohio legislature. He was also a County Commissioner. He served as Common Pleas Judge in Cambridge and Zanesville. In 1842 he was elected on Board of Directors to find a suitable place for a college. The board met in Springfield, Ohio, on Feb. 14, 1845, and located it there. The college was and now is Wittenburg University."

"David's son, Perry, had married Sarah WHEELER, daughter of Samuel WHEELER, at her father's home in Senacaville, Ohio, on Jan. 6, 1846. Perry and his wife and two infant children moved in a covered wagon to Iowa. Perry's father, David, and new wife, Nancy, and six of his children also moved to Iowa, as did Samuel WHEELER and family. They settled in Jefferson County, Iowa, in Locust Grove Township."

"Of the five children of David who did not move to Iowa were John (probably Jonathan) and Maria who died young in Ohio; Sarah, who married THOMPSON and moved to California, and John and Catherine who remained in Ohio. Among those who went to Iowa was Elizabeth who had married Alfred Parker HEATON in Ohio. (Vol. 4, City Cem.)"

"In Iowa David and family, Perry and family, and the HEATON family must have lived in adjoining places for the 1850 census listed them as Dwelling No. 13, 14, and 15 respectively. (Locust Grove)."

"David died on August 29, 1860. He was buried in Batavia Cemetery, Locust Grove Township."

"Samuel WHEELER's wife had died Oct. 13, 1851, shortly after her arrival in Iowa. After David TULLES' death his widow (Perry TULLES' stepmother) married Samuel WHEELER (Perry's father-in-law). The WHEELERs had no children by this marriage. At her death, she was buried beside her first husband, David TULLES...."

"David TULLES had been licensed by the Synod of Illinois on Sept. 18, 1853, to be a local pastor of the Lutheran Church. On Sept. 8, 1855, he was ordained a Lutheran minister at Winchester, Iowa, and assigned as pastor in Van Buren Co., Iowa. Many of his sermons and notes should be in the possession of the heirs of J. Tullis LAWSON at Garden City, Kansas......"

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).