Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-19

ed lieutenant In tue ""'
November g. 1870, served through tho
Seminole war, Is35-1S42. and was pre-
vetted CAPTAIN for gallant conduct ]"
the defense Of Guymas. Mexico. NO
yember II, lS47. He went with Con"
modore Perry to japan In lSeS-oa an"
was promoted to captain November ~
1858. He resigned August a. 1871, W
enter the Confederate service ana De-
came colonel and acting inspector
general of the department. or North
Carolina. He had command OF tse
shore defenses in the first Federai AT
tack on Fort Fisher. He returned 70
Washington In the summer OF 1870
and in June, 1866, for the health OF mis-
family. took up his residence on 'he
Edmund Lyddane- Thomas Lyddahe
farm. When Col. Tansili moVeo 70
this farm his family consisted Oh ms
wife and his sons. George behuer.
Henry Brisco, John Frederick ana
Charles Fisk. The boys first ATTENDED
the Lower School House near RAD
bits store and Mount Zion Churc"
and the teacher there then was MISS
America Magruder. Later they at
tended the Upper School House D"
School House lane, where one OF their
teachers was John III. Surratt.
Col. Tansiil moved from the Lyd-s
dane farm to Georgetown in the. fall
Of 1871. or his children. George Ben-s
der went west and died. unmarried
Henry Briscoe also went west and Is
now living at winthrop, Me. He MARI
ried a Maine girl and has no children.
John Frederick Tansill went to New
York and Wa: married twice. He mas
one child, Charlie. by the first mar
riage. BY his second wife. who was
Miss Sarah Neill of New York. he has
five--Duncan, Donald, Frederick, Ais
bert and Amy. Two of his sons. Charlie
and Duncan, were with the American
expeditonary force in France. and
Donald was an ensign in the Navy. 8
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Charles Fisk Tansill went to Texas
in the Army (Signal Corpse in 1875
After leaving the Army he was SUI
perintendent of the public schools OF
returned to Washington in 1891 and
has been employed in the bureGu OF
pensions for many years. He MARI cd
twice in Texas. his first wife being
Grace Mary, and the second. Mary Cor-$
della. both daughters of Maj. Chris G.
Cailan of the Confederate Army and {
graduate of Georgetown University.
and whose wife was Miss Sue ]. Hol-
mead of Holmead Manor, in this Dis
trict. He went to Texas after the civil
war and there became a lawyer of
note. being at the time of his death.
in 1886, county attorney for Gillespie
county. Mr.. Tansill had no children
by his first marriage. BY his second
marriage he has four. all living In
Brookland. They are Frederick Guida.
who married Miss Bessie Riker OF 4
Brookland. and whose children are
Marie Tansill married Arthur Allen
Carpenter of Brookiand and they have
three children-Richard Allen, Donald
Tansill and Robert Arthur. Charles
Callan Tansill married Miss Helen
i rarker or Mount Vernon. Ohio, and
mond and Charles Benjamin Xavier
Bender Tansill recently married Miss
Agnes Elwood of New York He served
IN the marines in the great war
CHARLES Callan Tansin holds the d.
I the o. r, aoetor OF philosophy from both
hopkins University, and his commits
SION as a lieutenant in the historicat n
branch of the Army War College was Il
ABOUT to be issued when the armistice
'' p.osia,med. Charles Fisk Tansill
was named for Charles b. Fisk. his
S Ehcae' VINO was chief engineer of the
chesapeake and Ohio canal, and WHOSE
name IS carved on the monumants II
the canal and 32d street. - - 4
When Col. Robert Tansiu ma rr,ea
anna Lucinda Bender she lived with
nnno iather. Maj. George Bender. a I
Ioos l street. Maj. Bender wa.
vestryman at st. Johns Church ma
.hey went from 2009 to be married. 81
that church. Maj. Bender bniit frat
mouse In 1870. and 1t is still IN 4.
sptenaid state of preservation. Ho
also owned the lot on the west whirh
Col. Iansill later sold to Mr. R,-ifern7 SS
me grocer. who built on il honsa No. XII
wi street. Maj. Bender aiso
owned the large house between the
10y Where now stands 2O1l and No.
oit-the old Art Club. That house 81
ne rented to the English minister for a
ssseral years. Upon the division, of Z;
.ne SENDER estate in 1868 that mouse 4
went 70 MRS. Mary E. Fisk. sister a.
me wIe OF Col. Robert Tansill. she lSs
say !he property, and Nos. 2OI3 ana d
:; Ti' \ street are built on the site M
property owner In st. Paul and sChfs n
cago. Col. Tansill sold the honse "a. 4
zOoS ] street to Representative Clark
son N. Potter OF New York in l6f0.
York vi ~
MAI. George Bender was horn III IA
April II, 1885. and ~
,naIried MISS Mary Brisco OF Mary x
,ahd: He died at zoos I street Austiot y
~. 1855. and his wife Mary ON D. X
e mber s. 1858. They are buried IN "