DAVID TULLIS ( deceased) ; was born in Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, Oct 1808, and was the son of Ezra and Mary (Blue) Tullis, pioneers of Warren Co., natives of Virginia. When David was a small boy, his parents pioneered their way the wilds of Champaign Co., and here passed the remainder of their lives, raising family of four sons and two daughters to honest toil. David was the second child of the family, and was reared and inured to farm labor. Early in life, he learned the trade of  a blacksmith, which he followed in Mechanicsburg for seventeen years. By his industry and careful attention to business, he won the confidence of the public and reputation of a first-class workman. At the end of this time he purchased and moved on a farm, and began the pursuit of agriculture with the hope of improving his failing health. Here he remained successfully operating his farm for about twenty-one years and then returned to Mechanicsburg, where his death occurred July 15, 1876. By his death the community suffered the loss of one whom it recognized as a valuable and honorable citizen, He was married, July 8, 1831, to Nancy Cartmell, who was born in  1812, near Mechanicsburg, her parents being natives of Winchester, Va.,-and pioneers of this county. They located  in Goshen Twpand lived the remainder of their days on the place on which they first located, Eight children were boru to Mrs and Mrs. Tullis, seven of whom still survive; one died in infancy.