Re: Charlie Tomlinson - AR, OK

Buddy Tomlinson, 2, AR was on the 1870 Dover Twp., Pope Co., AR census, 345, 151/153, with Van Reves Tomlinson, 39, KY, and Margaret, 28, VA. Charles et al were in Liberty Twp., Pope, in 1900, p.5, when Van Tomlinson, b. Aug 1832 KY, wife Amelia, Mar 1854, TN, and daughter Nora J., Mar 1877, AR were in Dover Twp., p. 8.

Van Tomlinson, b. 20 Aug 1833, Pulaski Co., KY m. 1 June 1865, Pope Co., AR, Margaret Hobbs, daughter of James. Children: Charles, m. Aug 1888 Jeffrie Henderson, who d. Mary 1890; Mary A., Nora J., Mattie May. (Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas, Yell and Pope Cos., 1891) Van, a Democrat, was a cotton and corn farmer with 300 acres, a frame house and houses for his tenants. (Ibid.) He was a son of Charles Tomlinson.

Charles was born ca. 1804, Pulaski Co., KY, d. 1873, Pope Co., AR, son of John Tomlinson and Rachel Neal, daughter of Charles Neal. Charles no doubt was named for his maternal grandfather.

Charles was Pulaski sheriff, kept a hotel, managed a drygoods store in Somerset, KY, and was the Somerset postmaster in 1832. (Alma Owen Tibbls, A History of Pulaski Co., KY, 85) (John was postmaster in 1817.)
Charles m. 8 Oct 1825, Pulaski, Susan Wood, b. Pulaski, d. ca. 1869, Pope, daughter of james Wood. On the 1830 Pulaski census, 56, Charles Tummilson: 1 m., 1f. b. 1800-1810; 1 f. 1815-1820; 1 m. 1820-1825. Charles was granted 125 acres on Pitmans Creek, Pulaski, 18 Mar 1833 and another 70 acres 20 May 1835. (B2:337, F2:247, in Virginia Land Grants in Kentucky) They moved to Pope Co., AR ca. 1836, bought government land, and Charles was on the census there in 1840. Ca. 1848 he joined the California gold rush; Charles was on the 1850 census in ElDorado, CA, while Susan was on the census back in Pope.

John Tomlinson, probably b. 1775-1780, possibly in Loudon Co., VA, d. 1852-1860, Pulaski. He m.1 26 Jan 1803, Pulaski, Rachel Neal, and 15 Apr 1826 her sister, Rebecca Neal Smith McKinney. (There may have been other marriages.) Charles Neal died by Nov 1826, Pulaski; John was administrator of his estate. (Pulaski WB 2, 329; 6, 271) John, 60, VA was on the 1850 Pulaski census; John deeded land to heirs of his son Solomon 29 May 1852.

John had a water grist mill and owned and operated an iron foundry in Somerset. The 1810 Somerset census, 133, shows John Tummelson, b. 1765-1784, with 2 m., 1 f. 1784-1794; 3 m. 1800-1810. In 1820, p. 53: b. 1775-1794. The 1830 census, p. 56, is of particular interest: 1 m. b. 1740-1750, 1 m. 1770-1780, 1 f. 1790-1800,, 1m, 1f 1800-1810, 1m., 2 f. 1810-1815, 1m., 1f. 1815-1820. (Charles was listed separately on the same page.) Were those two oldest men in 1830 John and his father? Was his father Nathaniel Tomlinson?

Nathaniel Tummelson was on the 1820 Somerset census, p. 69; 1 m. b. 1730-1740, 1m 1770-1780, 1 f. 1805-1810. Nathaniel Tomlinson, 86,Pulaski, was granted a $20 pension 21 Dec 1833 as a Revolutionary War private in the Virginia Militia, one of 43 pensioners in Pulaski. (Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Revolutionary War Soldiers in Kentucky, 203)

In his pension application S31431, Nathaniel said he was born 15 Oct 1747 in Frederick Co., MD; was a private in Capt. John Luckett's Co., Col. Peyton's Regiment, of Virginia; marched to Philadelphia, where the army was commanded by George Washington; was discharged, and returned to Loudon Co., VA. In 1781 he enlisted as a private in Capt. Thomas Cannon's Co., Col. Risby's Regiment, Virginia; marched to near Williamsburg, VA, and was discharged about 10 days before the surrender of Cornwallis. He returned to Loudon for about 20 years, moved to Westmoreland Co., PA, and then to Pulaski Co., KY. The papers mention an older sister, not named. (S31431, National Archives)

The DAR years ago mistakenly coalesced this Nathaniel with the one in Lancaster Co., SC and Putnam Co., GA; the lineages in DAR Books 47, 434; 77, 183; 102, 174, are thus in error.

A Nathaniel Tomlinson was a blacksmith in Frederick Co., MD in 1751. (Note that John had an iron foundry in Pulaski.) A 1751 deed to Joseph Tomlinson records his wife's name as Sarah. This probably was the same Nathaniel who was constable of Marsh hundred, Frederick, and who had two brothers (not identified, but most likely Joseph and John; a Benjamin married to a Mary also was in Frederick) in his district. (See Millard Rice's book of early Frederick records.) A Nathaniel Tomlinson was killed by Indians in April 1762 "in the back country." (Maryland Gazette, 29 Apr 1762; New-York Post, 13 May 1762; New-York Mercury, 17 May 1762) The inventory of Nathaniel Tomlinson was recorded 30 Oct 1765, when his next of kin were identified as John Tomlinson and Thomas Lazear; administrator Arthur Charlton.

There still was a Nathaniel Tomlinson in Frederick in 1771. (Liber W, Frederick land Records, in Western Maryland Magazine, 1987, 3, 105) Was he a son of Nathaniel or of John, both there and associated with Joseph Tominson in 1745 (Prince George's Co.)?

Nathaniel of Pulaski was NOT the son of Joseph Tomlinson and Rebecca Swearingen; their son Nathaniel died in Adams Co., MS ca. 1814 leaving a will naming his siblings.