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Sharon Tyndale (Illinois, engineer, County surveyor, Postmaster and Secretary of State. )

b. 1816-01-19 d. 1871-04-29

St. Clair County, Illinois, engineer, postmaster, and politician. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Mary Dorathea Hilgard Tyndale in St. Clair County, Illinois, in May 1839. Father of Emma Tyndale, Troilus Tyndale, Julius Tyndale, Theodore Tyndale, and Hector Tyndale. Resident of St. Clair County, Illinois, in 1834. Engineer in St. Clair County, Illinois, in 1850. Surveyor in St. Clair County in 1860. Postmaster for Belleville in St. Clair County from March 27, 1861, to January 8, 1865. Member of the Republican Party. Secretary of State for the State of Illinois from 1865 to 1869.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, St. Clair County, Ridge Prairie District, p. 498A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, St. Clair County, Township 1 Range 8, p. 612.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Sangamon County, Springfield, p. 437B.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, St. Clair County, Illinois, vol. 32, p. 400.

Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, St. Clair County Marriages, Film 002169353.

"Fearful Tragedy," The Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL), May 1, 1871, p. 2.

"The Tyndale Murder," Decatur Republican (Decatur, IL), May 4, 1871, p. 4.

Francis M. Shonkwiler, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Illinois, vol. 1 (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1917), 473.

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Tyndale, Sharon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205871 (November 12, 2026).

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