Julius C. Tingman Explained

Julius C. Tingman
Birth Date:1841?
Birth Place:South Carolina
Death Place:South Carolina
Occupation:Farmer, soldier, state legislator

Julius Caesar Tingman (1841? – December 7, 1917) was an American soldier, South Carolina state legislator, and farmer.

Biography

Tingman was born to a woman named Mary Tingman in Berkeley County, South Carolina sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s.[1] [2] He served as a corporal in the U.S. Colored Troops during the American Civil War.[3] He was two-term member of the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. Tingman was elected to represent Charleston County.[4] [5] In 1874 he introduced legislation to amend "the fence law so far as regards certain portions of Charleston; to repeal the game laws of the State; to compel dealers in turpentine, in Charleston County, to pay the laborers the Charleston market prices for crude turpentine."[6] Tingman was the great-great-grandfather of comedians Chris Rock and Tony Rock.[7]

Notes and References

  1. "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965", database with images, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N96H-4S9 Julius C. Lengman, 1917.
  2. "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3R8-KDC Entry for Julius Tingman and Hennie Tingman, 1900.
  3. "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2MKP-WCC Julius C Tingman, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,636,304.
  4. Book: Representatives, South Carolina General Assembly House of . Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina . 1873 . State Printers . en.
  5. Work . Monroe N. . Staples . Thomas S. . Wallace . H. A. . Miller . Kelly . McKinlay . Whitefield . Lacy . Samuel E. . Smith . R. L. . McIlwaine . H. R. . January 1920 . Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress . The Journal of Negro History . en . 5 . 1 . 63–119 . 10.2307/2713503 . 2713503 . 149610698 . 0022-2992.
  6. News: 1874-01-25 . Mr. Tingman . 3 . The Daily Phoenix . 2023-09-15.
  7. Book: Gates, Henry Louis Jr. . In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past . Crown . 2009 . 978-0-307-40973-7 . Chapter 17: Chris Rock . Henry Louis Gates Jr..

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