Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....D. J. Tomberlin January 29 1841 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   D. J. TOMBERLIN. - The list of Barbour county's successful planters and
influential men would be incomplete without the name of D. J. Tomberlin, who,
since 1865, has been one of the leading agriculturists of southeastern Alabama.
Mr. Tomberlin's father, Carson Tomberlin, was a native of North Carolina, born
in Anson county, in 1813. He married in that state, about the year 1834, Mary
Bain, and four years later came to Alabama, settling in the county of Barbour,
where he carried on the pursuit of agriculture until his death, in 1868. He is
remembered as an unobtrusive man, of deep religious convictions, and for years
was one of the prominent members of the Primitive _ Baptist church in this
section of the state. Ten children were born to Carson and Mary Tomberlin, of
whom five are now living, namely: S. W.; D. J.; R. A.; Parmelia, wife of Samuel
Jenkins, and James. The mother of this family, a woman of many excellent traits
of character and a devoted Christian,
Died in the year 1880.

   D. J. Tomberlin was born January 29, 1841, in Barbour county, Ala. Inheriting
the patriotic spirit, common to the gallant sons of the south, he responded to
the call of his state in the troublesome times of war, enlisting, in the spring
of 1862, in company A., Forty-fifth Alabama infantry, Col. Gilchrist, and served
in the ranks until the surrender in 1865. He fought at Perryville, Murfreesboro,
Chickamauga, the battles around Atlanta, was with Hood in his Tennessee raid and
received two flesh wounds at Franklin. He was in the hospital when the battle of
Nashville occurred, and on attempting to rejoin the army was captured in North
Carolina by the Federal General Stoneman, and sent to Camp Chase, Columbus,
Ohio, where he remained until the close of the war. After his release, Mr.
Tomberlin returned home in most reduced financial circumstances, but possessing
an energy which encountered obstacles only to overcome them, he has since
accumulated a large portion of this world's goods, and is now classed with the
substantial men of the county, owning and operating a fine plantation of 1,400
acres. As a financier, Mr. Tomberlin possesses remarkable sagacity, and his
transactions, while shrewd, have always been highly honorable and creditable to
him as a man of strict business sagacity and integrity. His home, where he
dispenses genuine southern hospitality, is a model of comfort and convenience,
and he believes in enjoying the blessings of this life while opportunities for
so doing are offered. Mr. Tomberlin was married in 1860 to Ellen Childs, who
died, without issue, in 1863. His second marriage was solemnized in 1865 with
Laerann Price, who has borne him eight children: Gusta, wife of John Scroggins;
Lula, wife of C. Baker; Julia S., wife of Henry Myers; Hepsey; Mack; Belle;
Warren, and Eddie. Fraternally, Mr. Tomberlin is a master Mason and religiously
a Baptist, of which church his wife is also a member.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 465-466

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