Biography of E L Tunstall, Fulton Co, AR

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        Date: 26 Sep 1998
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E. L. Tunstall, M. D., a widely known and most successful physician of Mammoth
Spring, Ark., was born in Independence County, of this State, in September,
1864. He is a son of H. M. and Melissa (Baker) Tunstall, who were born
respectively in Independence County, Ark., and Middle Tennessee. The father was
reared to a mercantile life in his native county, was married there, and a few
years since came to Fulton County, Ark., and engaged in various pursuits at
Mammoth Spring. He and wife, who came to Arkansas at the age of five years,
became the parents of three children, of whom Dr. E. L. Tunstall is the second.
The paternal grandfather was a native of the “Old Dominion,” and removed to
Kentucky during the early history of that State, afterward locating in
Arkansas, where he engaged in steamboating and horse-dealing, accumulating a
large amount of property thereby. The great-grandfather came from Wales and
located in Virginia. Dr. E. L. Tunstall was educated in the graded schools of
his native county, and during this time acquired a taste for the study of
medicine. He determined to make this his profession, and for some time at first
studied under a preceptor, and attended his first course of lectures in the
Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, during the winter of 1884-85. He
graduated from the Memphis Hospital Medical College in the spring of 1887 (the
regular school). After practicing in Ozark County, Mo., for some time, he
commenced practicing in Fulton County in the fall of 1885. Miss Mary A. Tyree,
who was born in Pulaski County, Mo., in February, 1867, became his wife in
October, 1882, and to their marriage have been given two bright little
children: Katie S. D. and A. G. Thurman. The Doctor is a member of the Tri-
State Medical Society, which meets once a year at Memphis. Tenn. Politically he
is a Democrat.