John Tuttle
John Tuttle, of Palmyra, Portage County, the father of Lafayette Tuttle, was born at Lebanon, Conn., in 1762, and lived in Sunderland, Mass., where a family of four sons and four daughters were born, all of whom lived to an advanced age, except the eldest boy, John, who met his death through inhaling well-damp while digging a well. Our subject served ns a soldier under Gen. Randolph during the Revolutionary war. In the year 1804, when he moved to Palmyra, Portage Co., Ohio, with his family, he settled about one mile south of the township center. After this his wife died, and by a second marriage he had a family of five boys and two girls. He died October 19, 1829, aged sixty-six years.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885