Julius C. Tingman

Tingman was born to a woman named Mary Tingman in Berkeley County, South Carolina sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s.^[1][2] He served as a corporal in the U.S. Colored Troops during the American Civil War.^[3] He was two-term member of the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.^[4] Tingman was elected to represent Charleston County.^[5][6] In 1874 he introduced legislation to amend "the fence law so far as regards certain portions of Charleston; to repeal the game laws of the State; to compel dealers in turpentine, in Charleston County, to pay the laborers the Charleston market prices for crude turpentine."^[7] Tingman was the great-great-grandfather of comedians Chris Rock and Tony Rock.^[4]