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TINDALL, JOHN LEWIS, physician, member constitutional convention 1819, was born March 7, 1784, in Columbia, Ga., and died April
16, 1864, at Aberdeen, Miss. He was of French descent but from a family originally English. He was a physician in Columbia, Ga., and moved in 1806 to the frontier of Kentucky. His constitution requiring a more southern climate, he moved, in 1816, to Tuscaloosa, and made his home at that place for a period of twenty-one years. He was a member from Tuscaloosa County of the constitutional convention of 1819, which formed the first constitution of the state. He several times represented that county in the State legislature, and in 1828 was selected president of the state bank. He held that position until 1836, when he resigned, and the following year moved to Aberdeen, Miss. Toward the latter part of his life, his principal pursuit was agriculture, and the shock of the raid upon Aberdeen, during the War of Secession, by the Federal troops, which swept his plantation of all its stock and left it a ruin, caused his death. He was a Presbyterian. Married: to Mary Ritchie, daughter of
James Ritchie of Kentucky. Children: 1. Pronecy B., m. Truman Perrln; 2. Curatius M., m. Lovena Derrit; 3. James, d. in infancy; 4. Caroline T., m. Thomas Miller; 5. John L., m. Jane Moore; 6. Mary R., m. James Carlisle; 7. William P., m. Virginia Barksdale; 8. Thomas P., m. Martha Herndon; 9. Robert M., m. Harriett Barksdale; 10. Sarah C; 11. Henry, d. young;
12. Martha, d. young; 13. Julia Ann Eliza. Last residence: Aberdeen, Miss.