Source: "Alabama and Statistical Register", 1903, State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Compiled by Thomas M. Owen, Director, Montgomery, AL, Brown Printing Company, 1903 Page 54 Legislative Department, Barbour County JOHN FULMORE MCTYER, of Eufaula, was born February 5, 1849 in Marlboro county, S.C., and is the son of Robert Adair McTyer, (a native of that county and State who removed to Eufaula) and wife Caroline H., daughter of Andrew and Agnes Fulmore, of Robeson county, N.C. Mr. McTyer was educated in the common schools of Eufaula, and at Bingham's school in N.C., but was not graduated. He has been a farmer in Barbour county since 1873. He was elected represenative in the legislature in November, 1902. At the age of fifteen years, he enlisted in Kolb's Battery, C.S.A., serving a few months before the close of the war. He is a Democrat, and a Presbyterian. On November 19, 1890, he married Lizzie Clyde, daughter of Amos and Caroline Thompson of Columbia, Henry county.