Tuell Family Branches
The Tuells have been on this continent since at least William Tuell (1714-1749). William’s son, William Tuell Jr. (1738-1777) died fighting with American troops against the British in the Battle of Germantown during the Revolutionary War. Over the next three generations, our branch of the Tuells migrated through the Carolinas, Georgia, Arkansas and finally to Oklahoma Indian Territory in the 1890s. Tom’s great-grandfather James Robert Tuell (1869-1896) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Morris Tuell (1870-1920), settled near Pauls Valley, Okla., with their two children, Henry Offord Tuell (1891-1918) and Edith Maud Tuell (1890-1978). James died soon after, and Mary then married Charles Albert Williams 91864-1949), another pioneer of the area, and they had two sons, Albert Morris Williams (1897-1993) and Paul George Williams (1905-1953).
Henry Tuell moved to Lindsay, Okla., around 1914, where he met Tom’s grandmother, Mazie Cecil Frost (1892-1971). They married in March 1916 and welcomed Henry Offord Tuell Jr. (1916-2013) into the world that December. Two years later, the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 claimed Henry Sr. at age 27.
Tuell-Victria
This branch stems from the marriage of Henry Offord Tuell II and Eunice Virginia Victria.
Boot camp
Henry Offord Tuell II at boot camp at Camp Robinson near Little Rock, Ark.
Border Patrol
Henry Tuell II, right, in his Border Patrol uniform in Arizona.
Border Patrol Unit
Border Patrol unit in Nogales, Ariz. Henry Offord Tuell II is at far right on bottom row.
Border Patrol days
Henry Offord Tuell in his Border Patrol uniform. Henry served in the Border Patrol in southern Arizona.
Camping trip
Hank and Carol Tuell on a camping trip with their father, Henry Offord Tuell II, in the Ciamichi Mountains in Arizona.
Carol Ann Tuell
Carol Ann Tuell discovers the joy of plumbing in Douglas, Ariz. Carol is the daughter of Henry Offord Tuell II and Eunice Victria Tuell.
Carol Ann Tuell
Carol Ann Tuell at the home of her maternal grandmother, Cora Victria, in Bradley, Okla.
Carol Tuell
Carol Ann Tuell, daughter of Henry Tuell II and Eunice Victria Tuell. Photo taken in southern Arizona, where Henry was serving in the U.S. Border Patrol.
Carol Tuell
Carol Ann Tuell, daughter of Henry Tuell II and Eunice Victria Tuell. Photo taken in southern Arizona, where Henry was serving in the U.S. Border Patrol.
Carol, Hank and Mazie
Carol Ann Tuell, Henry Offord (Hank) Tuell III and grandmother Mazie Frost Tuell High. Mazie was visiting her grandchildren in southern Arizona.
Dinner at Grandma's
Henry Offord Tuell II helps prepare a holiday dinner at the home of his mother and stepfather, Mazie and Art High, in Lindsay, Oklahoma, sometime in the 1969s.
Eunice Tuell
Eunice Victria Tuell in southern Arizona, where husband Henry Offord Tuell II was serving in the Border Patrol.
Eunice Tuell
This photo of Eunice Victria Tuell was taken in Lawton, Okla., about 1968, when she was a geography teacher at Tomlinson Junior High School.
Eunice Tuell
Eunice Victria Tuell at her home in Duncan, Okla., around 1998.
Eunice Tuell and family
Eunice Victria Tuell with daughter Carol Ann Tuell and son Henry Offord Tuell III.
Eunice Victria Tuell
Eunice Victria Tuell, wife of Henry Offord Tuell II.
Eunice Victria Tuell
Eunice Tuell at her home in Duncan, Okla.
Eunice Virginia Victria
This photo of Eunice Virginia Victria likely was taken while she was a student at Central State Teachers College (now Central State University) in Edmond, Okla., around 1937.
Eunice Virginia Victria
Eunice Victria Tuell, likely taken while she was in college in Edmond, Okla.
Eunice and Vicki
Eunice Victria Tuell and her daughter, Victria Tuell Lynch, in the Tuell home in Lawton, Okla.
Father and daughter
Henry Offord Tuell II with daughter Carol in southern Arizona, where Henry was serving in the Border Patrol.
Gulf of Mexico vacation
Brothers Hank and Tom Tuell with catfish caught in the Gulf of Mexico off Rockport, Texas, in 1966.
Henry Offord Tuell II
Photo of Henry Offord Tuell II taken while he was at Oklahoma University.
Henry Offord Tuell II
Henry Offord Tuell II on the California Coast while on assignment in the U.S. Border Patrol.
Henry Offord Tuell II
Henry Offord Tuell II at his home in Lawton, Okla., circa 1965.
Henry Offord Tuell III
A school photo of Hank Tuell.
Henry Offord Tuell III
Senior high school photo of Henry "Hank" Tuell.
Henry Offord Tuell III
Hank Tuell in Douglas, Arizona. Henry Sr. was stationed here while serving in the U.S. Border Patrol.
Henry Tuell
Henry Offord Tuell II at home in Duncan, Oklahoma, after retiring from the Social Security Administration.
Henry Tuell II
Henry Offord Tuell II on horseback in southern Arizona, where he served in the Border Patrol.
Henry Tuell and Tom
Henry Offord Tuell II with son Thomas Frost Tuell. Photo taken in Douglas, Arizona, in 1952.
Henry Tuell and daughter
Henry Offord Tuell II with daughter Carol in southern Arizona, where Henry was serving in the Border Patrol.
Henry and Carol
Henry Offord Tuell II and daughter Carol Ann in Douglas, Ariz.,
Making pancakes
Henry Offord Tuell II making breakfast for his family at his home in Lawton, Okla.
Mazie and grandchildren
Mazie Frost (Tuell) High with Henry Offord "Hank" Tuell III and Carol Ann Tuell at the Tuell's home in southern Arizona.
Mother and daughter
Eunice Victria Tuell with daughter Carol in southern Arizona, where Henry Tuell was serving in the Border Patrol.
School photo
A school photo of Thomas Frost Tuell
Siblings
Henry Offord "Hank" Tuell III and sister Carol Ann Tuell in their yard in southern Arizon.
Thomas Frost Tuell
Photo of Thomas Frost Tuell, taken in Miami, Fla., about 1974.
Tom Tuell
Thomas Frost Tuell as a toddler in Douglas, Arizona.
Tom Tuell
A high school photo of Thomas Frost Tuell.
Tom Tuell
A photo of Thomas Frost Tuell taken when he was a student at Cameron University in Lawton, Okla.
Tom Tuell
School photo of Thomas Frost Tuell.
Tom and Hank
Brothers Thomas Frost Tuell and Henry Offord "Hank" Tuell III at the Tuell's home in Lawton, Okla. Their mother, Eunice Tuell, is at far left.
Tom and Hank Tuell
Thomas Frost Tuell and older brother Henry Offord Tuell III in the mid-1960s.
Tom and Hank Tuell
Thomas Frost Tuell and brother Henry Offord Tuell III in 1981 at the Tuell home in Lawton, Okla.,
Tom and Henry
Thomas Frost Tuell and his father, Henry Offord Tuell II, prepare to take a Chalks Airlines seaplane flight to Bimini, Bahamas.
Tom and Vicki
Thomas Frost Tuell and Victria Nelle Tuell on the porch of the Tuell's home in Lawton, Okla.
Tom and Vicki Tuell
Thomas Frost Tuell and Victria Nell Tuell were the youngest of four children of Henry Offord Tuell and Eunice Victria Tuell.
Tuell children
Clockwise from left, Henry Offord Tuell III, Carol Ann Tuell, Victria Nelle Tuell and Thomas Frost Tuell. Photo was taken at the Tuell home in Lawton, Okla.
Tuell family
From left, Henry Offord Tuell III, Eunice Victria Tuell (holding Thomas Frost Tuell), Henry Offord Tuell II and Carol Ann Tuell. Photo was taken in Douglas, Ariz., in 1952.
Tuell family
From left, Henry Offord Tuell II, Eunice Victria Tuell, Henry Offord Tuell II, Victria Nelle Tuell Lynch (with daughter Caylin Lynch), Thomas Frost Tuell and wife Kathleen DiMascio Tuell.
Vicki and Tom Tuell
Victria Nelle Tuell and brother Thomas Frost Tuell on the family's porch in Lawton, Okla.