Beyond that there's a gap going back beyond my great grandfather. There were the usual illnesses and things, but probably 10 of them made it to adulthood. TULL: Yes, most of whom survived to adulthood. My father was the second oldest of the 15 children of Ira Tull and Minnie McDorman. He died in 1943, when I was seven years old. He had a crabhouse and he went out for crabs and oysters. So, then his son Ira, was my father's father and he was also a waterman, a very respected waterman in Crisfield. He was a private or a corporal, but I'd like to dig more into that if I could. He apparently deserted twice, but he wasn't punished for it and he went back to his unit and at least he survived. He might have been pressed into it because Maryland was not exactly a hotbed of Union sentiment. His grandfather's name was Washington Tull and he was a waterman, but one of my great nieces has done a little research in the National Archives and she discovered that he deserted from the Union army in the Civil War. My father's ethnic background was English and Scots-Irish. Q: Do you know anything about his grandparents and parents? Did you ever have any? 0002 Q: I was going to say, Crisfield is the crab capital and everything else you can think of. His father and his grandfather were Chesapeake Bay watermen. My father was born in Crisfield, Maryland. Two brothers, Richard and Thomas (or possible cousinthis is unclear) I believe were the two who came over from England, I believe they came in some kind of indentured status. On my father's side of the family we've done a little bit of tracing and the first Tulls came to the United States to the Eastern Shore of Virginia then moved into the Eastern Shore of Maryland we believe in 1663. All right, well let's start on your father's side.
I was born literally in the same house from which I left 26 years later to join the Foreign Service. TULL: I was born October 2nd, 1936 in Runnemede, New Jersey. This is being done on behalf of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and I'm Charles Stuart Kennedy and Terry and I are old friends going back to the Vietnam days. This is an interview with Theresa, T-H-E-R-E-S-A A. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
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