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Source: [1083]

JESSE TUMBLISON is a retired farmer, who has been a factor in the development of Madison County's agricultural interests, and is now quietly passing the declining years of a long and well spent life
in his pleasant home on West High Street, London. A native of Ohio, his birthplace is nine miles south of Chillicothe, in Ross County, and he was born October 28, 1816. His parents, Jesse and
Elizabeth (Soders) Tumblison, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, were married in Ross County, and began their wedded life there amid pioneer surroundings. The father was a
bricklayer, and he built up a prosperous business in Chillicothe as a contractor and builder, employing a good many men, and he was thus engaged throughout life.

Our subject is the only surviving member of the family. He lived in Ross County until nine years old, and then his mother removed to Pickaway County with her family, and he was there reared on a
farm. He remained at home with his mother until he was twenty-one, attending the local schools in his boyhood, and at that age he went to work as a farm hand, continuing thus employed for some six
years. At the expiration of that time, he had gathered together enough to enable him to marry and make a home, and he was wedded to Miss Mary McKinney, of Pickaway County, daughter of Samuel and
Margaret (Lewis) McKinney. Her parents were also natives of Pickaway County, born there in the very earliest days of its settlement, and her father was numbered among its practical farmers until his
death.

After marriage, Mr. Tumblison rented a farm in Pickaway County for several years, and then another for ten years. After that, he purchased one hundred acres of that same farm, which he operated a
year and then he sold it. He next bought a farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres, which he disposed of at a good price after living on it five years. Coming then to Madison County, he carried on
agriculture on rented land the ensuing nine years. He then invested in a farm of one hundred and fifty-four acres in Union Township, which is still in his possession. It is provided with fine
buildings, is highly cultivated, and is one of the best farms in the township. Our subject lived on it ten years, but as his wife died in 1886, he rented it, and has since made his home in London,
the income that he enjoys being the fruit of his diligence and practical skill in agricultural pursuits. He is a man of high principles and unswerving rectitude in thought and act, and wherever he
has lived has always been regarded as a very desirable citizen, one who could be depended upon to fill places of public trust with fidelity, and to act honorably in all the relations in which he
stood toward others. He has held the offices of Supervisor and School Director, and in both capacities served the township well. In his younger days, he belonged to the old Whig party, but of late
years he has been a Republican. Socially, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife of sainted
memory, who was well beloved for her many virtues.

Our subject has seven children: Frank, who married Ella Reed, and has five children: Charles, Merda, Harry, Blanche, John; Baxter E., who married Ann Hunter, and has three children: Ethel, Ada and
Edna; Marcus, who married Liza Woodhouse, and has four children: Willie, Howard, Mary, and Thomas; Fletcher, who married Kate Weaver, and has two children: Bessie and Claude; Marinda, Mrs. Albert
Botkin; Martha; Dema, who married Samuel Hunter, and died May 1, 1892, leaving two children: Charles and Florence.