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D. G. Tull, M. D., of Yorkville, Tenn., was born in 1837, and is a son of John R. and Susan W. (Edwards) Tull, who were born in Delaware and Kentucky, respectively, and moved to Williamson County, Tenn., after their marriage. The father farmed in early life and then directed his attention to teaching school. He was in the war of 1812 and was captain of the State militia. He and his wife were church members from early life, and while he was attending conference at Shelbyville, Tenn., in 1847, he was taken with typhoid fever and died there. His widow died in 1859. His father, Isaac N. Tull, was a native of Delaware and was a Presbyterian minister. He was twice married; the first time to a Miss Roberts, and the second time to a Miss Daisy. He died shortly after the war of 1812. Our subject’s maternal grandfather was a pioneer citizen of Kentucky and was one of the original manufacturers of Bourbon whisky. He was very wealthy. He was married to a Miss Garrard, who bore him twelve children, and then to a Miss Kelley, by whom he had twelve children. He died in 1854, at ninety-five years of age. Our subject, Dr. Tull, was reared on a farm and was educated partly in Kentucky and partly in Tennessee. After his father’s death he lived with his widowed mother until eighteen years of age, when he began studying medicine, under Dr. Robert Buchanan, of Williamson County, and read with him three years. He at the same time attended the University of Nashville, and graduated in 1860. He located at Bethesda, and practiced until 1861, when he enlisted in Capt.Wm. Ewing’s cavalry, McNairy’s battalion, First Tennessee, and remained with him twelve months, then joined Ballentine’s regiment, Seventh Mississippi. He was in some of the principal battles of the war, and never received a wound or was taken prisoner. After his return from the army he located near Trimble’s Station, in Obion County, and practiced five years. February 5, 1868, he married Miss T. Hamilton, daughter of James M. and Rachel Hamilton. She was born in Tennessee, in 1850, and became the mother of four children, two of whom are dead. Mrs. Tull died in 1877. Dr. Tull, after leaving Trimble Station, located about four miles from Yorkville, but at the end of eighteen months moved to Yorkville, his present station. In 1881 he was married to Sallie N. Scales, daughter of Maj. Wm. P. and Mary Scales. She was born in Tennessee, and died in 1883. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities, and also the A. O. U. W. He belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and is a stanch Democrat.