Baldwin-Mobile County AlArchives Biographies.....Tunstall, Jr., Peyton Randolph October 6, 1854 - February 23, 1910
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)

   P.R. TUNSTALL, JR., D.D.S., of Mobile, Ala., was born in Baldwin county, 
Ala., October 6, 1854. His father is Dr. P. R. Tunstall, Sr.,  a native of 
Baldwin county, Ala., also a dentist by profession, and a resident of Baldwin 
county. He was the son of George B. Tunstall, a native of Virginia.  The mother 
of Dr. Tunstall was Laura L. Slaughter, a native of Baldwin county, Ala., who 
died in 1874.  Her father was Col. Lee Slaughter, who served as a lieutenant 
under Gen. Jackson in the Creek war.  Dr. Tunstall began the study of dentistry 
in 1878.  During the years 1879 and 1880, he pursued his studies under Dr. 
Robert A. Savage, of Mobile, and in the fall of 1881, he entered the 
Philadelphia dental college, in which he completed a full course, graduating in 
1883.  He at once began the practice of his profession in Mobile, and is now 
one of the leading dentists in that city.  In politics he is a democrat, and he 
is a Knight Templar Mason.  He married September 17, 1884, Miss Annie R. 
McCurdy of Mobile, by whom he had three children, two sons and one daughter.  
Paternally Dr. Tunstall is in the main of English ancestry, though on this side 
there is a slight admixture of Indian blood his paternal grandmother being a 
daughter of David Tait, a half brother of the Indian chief Weatherford.  The 
Tunstalls in Virginia were related to the Randolphs of that state, to which 
family the noted John Randolph of Roanoke belonged.  Dr. Tunstall is a striking 
person physically.  He is six feet one and one-half inches tall, and weighs 295 
pounds.  He is a rigidly temperate man, never having taken a chew of tobacco, 
nor smoked either a cigar or cigarette.  He has never taken a drink of liquor 
in his life either, except in case of sickness, and then only as a medicine.


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"Memorial Record of Alabama", v.2  pp.609-610

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