Biography of C. C. Tunstall, White County, Arkansas

***********************************************************
Submitted by: Bonnie Palmer <bpalmer@bihs.net>
        Date: Jun 1997
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/white/white.html
***********************************************************

From "A Centennial History of Arkansas", edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept.
of Archives & History, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock, 1922.

C. C. TUNSTALL

One of the alert and progressive young business men of Prairie county is C. C. TUNSTALL, who now the
assistant cashier of the First National Bank at Des Arc. He was born in 1898 in the city which is
still his home, his parents being C. R. and Virgina (BROWN) TUNSTALL. The mother's birth occurred
near Beebe, Arkansas, her parents have settled in this state in pioneer times. To Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
TUNSTALL have been born four children: C. W. ; L. B., who served in the war with Germany; C. C., of
this review; and A. E. The second son was a member of the Ninetieth Division of the American
Expeditionary Force and was on active duty in the Argonne Forest and also in the St. Mihiel sector.
He thus participated in some of the hardest fighting in which the American troops took part and bore
his full share in sustaining the splendid reputation made by the American army, which turned the
tide of battle and brought success to the allied forces.

C.C. TUNSTALL pursed his education in the schools of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and of Dallas, Texas, and
has spent most of his active business life in bank work. At the time the country needed the military
aid of her loyal sons, however, he enlisted for service in the navy, becoming a seaman at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station. Later he was assigned to the United States Steamship Schurz, a gunboat
on duty in the Atlantic service. This boat was rammed when fifty miles off the coast of North
Carolina, on which occasion Mr. TUNSTALL jumped overboard into the sea although the waves were
running very high at the time. He clambered onto a life raft & after drifting about on this for 2
hours was picked up by the Saramaca. He was later assigned to the Eastland, the boat which capsized
in the Chicago River when almost a thousand lives were lost. This boat had been brought to the
surface after the terrible disaster, was then refitted & renamed The Wilmette, & Mr. TURNSTALL was
on active duty thereon throughout the remainder of his term of enlistment. Since the war he has
resumed his active work in connection with the banking & is now the efficient assistant cashier of
the First National Bank at Des Arc. His religious belief is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He has a wide acquaintance in the city in which his life has been passed & that his course has ever
been commendable & honorable one is indicated in the fact that many of his staunchest friends are
those who have ever known him from his boyhood to the present.