The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-30
GEN. H. A. TYLER
BURIED TUESDAY.
Foremost Soldier Of West Kentucky
Laid to Rest.

Az AuACi a. VI 0CA. IlSuly =
Tyler, Fulton County's most dis
tinguished soldier, took place a
Hickman at o'clock Tuesday after
noon in the presence of grea
throng of friends, citizens and Con
federate veterans, there being
number of distinguished visitors
comrades in the war.
Gen. Henry A. Tyler was born il
Fulton County on April Z, 1898
about six miles from Hickman, on {
farm on the Hickman-Fulton road
where he spent his boyhood days on
his parents farm. In his early
youth he attended the country school
there, later going to McLemoresville
Tenn, where he finished his educa-
ton. Returning from school, he
took up law, studying under Oscar
Turner, one of the best known men
of the State of Kentucky at that
time, former Congressman of the
First District. At the age of %
years young Tyler was admitted to
the Kentucky bar on April 2, 1860,
and practiced law until the Civil
war broke out. He was one of the
early volunteers in the cause of the
South, entering the army on April
2, 1851, organizing company A,
Twelfth Kentucky regiment, of
which he was captain, serving I'M
der Gen. Bedford Forrest. He served
throughout the four years of the
war, being in many conflicts in the
South, chief of which were the bat
tie of Harrisburg, Miss; Franklin,
Tenn, and Nashville, and many
skirmishes. The last battle he fought
in, near the close of the war, was on
his birthday, April 2, 1865.
At the end of the war Gen. Tyler
returned to Hickman to resume his
aw practice. Gen. Tyler faced
lard proposition at that time, and
our months after the war had closed
he owed for the clothes on his back,
,wed the rent for his office, owed
or his law books and had Is cents
n money to his name. But with the
var over and business partially re-
umed his law practice picked up
md he began to get on his feet
gain.
On April 2, 1870, he was married
0 Miss Bette Fowlkes, a prominent
'oung lady of Dyer County, Tenn,
nd to this union there were three
ons born, Robert A. Tyler being the
My survivor
After a few years in his law prac-
ice Gen. Tyler became the promoter
nd owner of the Hickman Lumber
, Manufacturing Company. He was
lso at the head of the H. A. Tyler
, Co. concern, that operated in Gin
innati for many years. After the
cath of Chas. Baltzer, ST., here,
Tho operated the Hickman Wagon
Works, he bought out the interest
the Baltzer heirs and the other
.ockholders of the company and for
lany years operated the Hickman
Wagon company, selling this plant
ut several years ago to S. L. Dodds,
this ely.
Ten years ago he built big coun-
y home at his farm three and a
alf miles east of Hickman, known
lakewood farm, and since that
me he has resided there. Just east
his home he built race track
n his son, Robert A. Tyler.
Ever since the Civil war, Gen.
yler has been actively interested in
concerning the South,
Id was devoted to veterans of the
His benevolence to
digent Confederates extended far
Id near, and his name is known to
'ssibly every Confederate soldier in
e South. For the past twelve
'ars he took an active part in every
union until the one in May, 1914,
hen he had to withdraw on ac-
unit of his health.
At each reunion he entertained
any of his old comrades, always
wing reserved for his friends a
zen or more rooms at the leading
tel, and in number of instances
ring 300 horses for the old SOIL
ers to ride in the parades, making
possible for many to attend who
ere financially unable to do so.
ne years ago he was elected COM
ander in general of all the remain
Forests troops, and held this
nor until last spring. when he ra