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Our branch of Tuells apparently arrived in Maryland from England in the early 1700s. They migrated down through the Carolinas to Georgia, then to Arkansas and Oklahoma Indian Territory.

Most of Nathaniel O. Tuell’s family was in Whiteville, Ark., when the 1880 census was taken. About five years earlier, the oldest son, Richard, had set out for Oklahoma Indian Territory with his wife, Hester, and two children. When Hester died a couple of years later, possibly in childbirth, Richard returned to Whiteville. He remarried in 1880.

Sometime after 1892, Nathaniel’s youngest son, James, set out to Indian Territory with his wife, Mary Elizabeth, and two small children, Edith and Henry. They settled in the Chickasaw Nation near the Indian settlement of White Bead.

James died a couple of years later. Mary Elizabeth, whose parents had also moved to Indian Territory, remarried to Charles Williams. Henry lived with his Morris grandparents in Pauls Valley while attending school.

Henry died in the flu epidemic of 1918, just a couple of years after marrying Mazie Frost. Their only child, Henry Offord Tuell II, still lives in southern Oklahoma today with his wife, Eunice.