Tunstall Quarles

Biography
Tunstall was born on 11 May 1781[1] in King William County, Virginia.[2] He was the son of Tunstall Quarles and Susannah Edwards.[3] He was baptized on 26 August 1781.[4] He moved to Woodford County, Kentucky with his parents about 1790.[5]

He married Permelia Stringer on 22 June 1809 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.[6]

He was a member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1796, 1811, and 1812.[7] He was captain of the 2nd Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Militia, which he armed and equipped at his own expense.[8][9] The regiment constructed Fort Jennings in Ohio, and then remained there on garrison duty for several months.[10] They then headed north to Put-in-Bay, Ohio.[11] When their term of service was nearly over, they went to Cincinnati, Ohio and were discharged in March 1813.[12]

He served in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth U.S. Congresses as a Republican from 4 March 1817 to 15 June 1820.[13]

He served as receiver of public moneys for the Cape Girardeau land district from May 1821 to July 1824.[14]

He was a member and speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1828.[15] He was a member of the Kentucky State Senate in 1840.[16][17]

He died on 7 January 1855 in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky[18] and was buried in Sinking Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky.[19]

Sources
↑ Douglas, William. The Douglas Register. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing, 1966.
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [1]
↑ Douglas, William. The Douglas Register. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing, 1966.
↑ Douglas, William. The Douglas Register. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing, 1966.
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [2]
↑ Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWBN-LJH : accessed 27 October 2016), Tunstall Quarles and Perinilia Stringer, 22 Jun 1809; citing , Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond; FHL microfilm 1,912,849.
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [3]
↑ Pulaski County Fact Book II. Chapter 3: Military History. [4]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [5]
↑ 2nd Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia: Unit History. [6]
↑ 2nd Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia: Unit History. [7]
↑ 2nd Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia: Unit History. [8]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [9]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [10]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [11]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [12]
↑ Railey, William E. "The Quarles Family and their Woodford County Connections." Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 20 (1922): 283-286. [13]
↑ "Quarles, Tunstall." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. [14]
↑ Find a Grave, Tunstall Quarles
1820 United States Census, Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky, population schedule, p. 53. Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
1840 United States Census, Pulaski County, Kentucky, population schedule, p. 328. Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
1850 United States Census, Laurel County, Kentucky, population schedule, p. 7A. Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
Railey, William E. "The Quarles Family and Their Woodford County Connections." Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 20 (Sep 1922): 283-286. [15]
Clarke, Peyton Neale. Old King William Homes and Families: An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia, from its Earliest Settlement. Louisville, J. P. Morton, 1897. [16]