Carl Tunnell

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Owned a dry cleaning business in the booming years of Picher, Oklahoma. Worked many years at the BF Goodrich plant in Miami, OK as a guard. Grandpa was a very tall man and he also suffered from scoliosis of the spine. He had red hair and freckles all over his visible body. He seemed gruff to his grandchildren, but we were not afraid of him. He drove a Thunderbird and would never let us eat anything while we were in the car.

Grandpa and his sister, Margie, used to write hymns and had a few published. I would love to get ahold of any of these, as I have never heard them. As a young man, Carl wrote many articles and advertisements and even ran a newspaper that was a forerunner of the Miami New-Record in Miami, Oklahoma. He was smart and could memorize numbers easily. When he worked as a guard at the B.F. Goodrich plant he had the badge numbers of all the employees memorized. They would call him up and ask, "Carl, what is my badge number?" and he would know off the top of his head.

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<Source: 1910 United States Federal Census MyHeritage.com [online database]. Lehi, UT, USA: MyHeritage (USA) Inc. https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10132/1910-united-states-federal-census Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration publication T624, 1,178 rolls.

Record: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10132-46517767/james-o-tunnel-in-1910-united-states-federal-census James O Tunnel in household of James E Tunnel Year: 1910; State: Missouri; County: Jasper; Township: Sheridan; NARA Publication: T624; Sheet: 14-A; Page: 1075; Line: 45

Citation: James C Tunnel Birth: Circa 1907 - Missouri, United States Residence: 1910 - Sheridan, Jasper, Missouri, USA Parents: James E Tunnel, Laura Tunnel Siblings: Iley B Tunnel, Jewell V Tunnel, Pearl C Tunnel, Flossie M Tunnel, Margie M Tunnel, Harry Tunnel, Lake Tunnel references />

< Event Type: Census Event Date: 1940 Event Place: Ward 4, Miami, Miami City, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States Family Number: 62 Sheet Number and Letter: 3A Line Number: 40 Affiliate Publication Number: T627 Affiliate Film Number: 3321 Digital Folder Number: 005454662 Image Number: 00393

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace James Tunnell Head M 34 Missouri Opal Tunnell Wife F 23 Arkansas Carleita Ann Tunnell Daughter F 6 Oklahoma Romana C Tunnell Daughter F 4 Oklahoma Janice G Tunnell Daughter F 1 Oklahoma

Citing this Record "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBK4-W8S : 14 March 2018), Janice G Tunell in household of James Tunell, Ward 4, Miami, Miami City, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 58-15, sheet 3B, line 41, family 62, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3321.>