Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....J. F. McTyer February 5 1849 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. F. MCTYER, a prominent planter, was born in Marlborough district, S. C.,
February 5, 1849, and is the son of R. A. and Caroline McTyer. At the age of
three years, he was brought by his parents to Alabama, and he has spent the
greater part of his life in Barbour county. A few months prior to the close of
the war he ran away from home and entered the army as member of Kolb's artillery
company, but did not participate in any active service, returning to Barbour
county on the cessation of hostilities. He began life for himself when twenty
years of age, choosing agriculture for an occupation, and he has ever since
followed that useful calling with the most encouraging success. Mr. McTyer was
married, in 1876, to Eva, daughter of Judge B. B. Fields, and by this union
became the father of three children: Carrie, Fields and Fulmore. Mrs. McTyer
died in 1884, and in November, 1890, Mr. McTyer married his present wife, Lizzie
Thompson, who has borne him one child, Stella. Politically, Mr. McTyer is a
supporter of the democatic party, and fraternally, belongs to the K. of H. order.

   His father, R. A. McTyer, a planter by occupation, was born in Marlborough
district, S. C., in the year 1802. He came to Alabama in 1853, settling in
Barbour county, about six miles south of Eufaula. R. A. McTyer was assentially a
self-made man, and from a poor boy became very successful in life, accumulating
a large amount of property, the greater part of which was swept away by the war.
He was a man of much more than ordinary intelligence, took great interest in
political matters and was one of the well informed citizens in the community in
which he lived. November 10th, 1836, in Robeson county, N. C., he was united in
marriage to Miss Caroline Fulmore, and they became the parents of eleven
children, all of whom reached the years of maturity, and nine of whom are still
living. The oldest son, William A., raised what was known as the Eufaula light
artillery, of which he was captain until his death, which occurred in May, 1864,
from disease contracted in the service. He was a lawyer of fine ability, and for
some time was associated in the practice of his profession with Messrs. Pugh &
Bullock, under the firm name of Pugh, Bullock & Co. His wife was Teresa Hunter,
and he was a brother-in-law of Senator Pugh. The following are the names of the
other children of the family in the order of birth: Mary, wife of S. H. Holmes;
Thomas, Margaret, Bessie, John F., Joseph, Frank, Robert and Sumter. The father
of these children died on the 12th of October, 1888; the mother is still living,
at the age of seventy-two years, in the town of Eufaula. The ancestors of the
McTyer family came from Scotland in the colonial times, and settled in Marion
county, S. C. There Robert McTyer's great-grandfather, of J. F., made his home
after landing in the new world. A few years before the arrival of the McTyers in
South Carolina, there came to that state, from Ireland, one, Dr. Robin Adair,
who was a surgeon in the American army during the war of Independence; and -
whose daughter became the wife of the above mentianed Robert McTyer. To this
marriage were born two sons, William and Robert; the former of whom, also a
surgeon in the patriot army, married Elizabeth Whitington, and became the father
of William and Robert A. McTyer, the latter, the father of the gentleman whose
name introduces this sketch.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 444-445


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