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John G. Tunstill, another prominent and enterprising citizen of Goshen, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., Apri1 21, 1835, and is the son of John S. and Eliza (Baldwin) Tunstill. The father was born in Virginia about 1775, and came to Tennessee soon after marriage. He died in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1842. He was a tailor by occupation, but also carried on farming. The mother was also born in Virginia, at Petersburg, and died in Logan County, Ky., about 1863. John G. Tunstill was the youngest child but one born to his father by his second marriage. He remained in Wilson County, Tenn., until fourteen years of age and then moved to Logan County, Ky., where he was married in 1859, and afterward moved to Southeastern Arkansas, where he followed farming, and continued this occupation until he moved to Goshen. He had one-half interest in a drug store in Hamburg, Ark., with a brother. During the war he was in Company G, First Trans-Mississippi Regiment, and was second chief commissary of the western department most of the time. He served nearly four years in the Confederate army. In 1876 he removed to Oxford’s Bend, in Goshen Township, and farmed here very successfully for six years. He then began the erection of the Goshen Mill, and after selling the farm moved to Goshen, and purchased a farm here. He also purchased a farm of 230 acres in Richland, 140 under cultivation. Mr. Tunstill has given his son one-third interest in the mill. He engaged in merchandising six years ago, and continued the same until July 1, 1888, when he sold out to J. A. Bryant & Co., and is now engaged in running his farms and in dealing in stock. He has been very successful in all his business transactions. He was married in 1856 to Miss Margaret C. Yancey, of Kentucky, and the results of this union were ten children, four deceased: James A. (connected with the mill), John W. (a farmer), Charles S., William M., Mary V. and George G. Those deceased were named Eliza B., Owen, Maggie and Homer G. Mr. Tunstill is a Democrat in politics, is a Master Mason, and is a strictly moral, upright man. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Tunstill of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.