Tazewell Tyler
(1830-1874)
BIRTH
December 6, 1830
PLACE
DEATH
January 8, 1874
PLACE
FAMILY
SISTER
Mary Tyler Jones
(1815–1847)
BROTHER
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
SISTER
Letitia Tyler Semple
(1821-1907)
SISTER
Elizabeth Tyler Waller
(1823-1850)
SISTER
Ann Contesse Tyler
(1825-1825)
SISTER
Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
BROTHER
David Gardiner Tyler
(1846-1927)
BROTHER
John Alexander Tyler
(1848-1883)
BROTHER
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
(1853-1935)
BROTHER
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler
(1856-1927)
CHILDREN
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Tazewell Tyler (1830–1874) was President John Tyler and Letitia Christian’s son and a physician. He attended the College of William and Mary in 1849–1850 and served as a Confederate surgeon during the Civil War, in field and Richmond hospital assignments. Regimental records identify him as an assistant surgeon in 1862, but do not establish his presence at Gettysburg. He later died in San Francisco. His papers and service records establish his own career.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Tazewell Tyler’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Tazewell Tyler is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Tazewell Tyler was President John Tyler and Letitia Christian’s son and a physician. Regimental records identify him as an assistant surgeon in 1862, but do not establish his presence at Gettysburg. He attended the College of William and Mary in 1849–1850 and served as a Confederate surgeon during the Civil War, in field and Richmond hospital assignments. Tazewell Tyler died on Jan 8, 1874. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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