An accomplished bass singer, Tillman traveled extensively with the New Orleans University singers and later with the Don Tennesseans, a group that performed in the White House. He opened a restaurant Kansas City, Missouri in 1881. He opened his own six-chair barber shop for white patrons at 12th & Grand in 1889. Enlisted to fight in the Spanish-American War, and served until the end of the war. After returning home to Kansas City, Missouri he was appointed by President McKinley as a first lieutenant in the Philippines with the Forty-Ninth Volunteer Infantry, serving for two years in Luzon. A group of prominent white citizens, in appreciation of his patriotic service, secured a position for him on the police force in Kansas City, Missouri. He was buried with full military honors.
An accomplished bass singer, Tillman traveled extensively with the New Orleans University singers and later with the Don Tennesseans, a group that performed in the White House. He opened a restaurant Kansas City, Missouri in 1881. He opened his own six-chair barber shop for white patrons at 12th & Grand in 1889. Enlisted to fight in the Spanish-American War, and served until the end of the war. After returning home to Kansas City, Missouri he was appointed by President McKinley as a first lieutenant in the Philippines with the Forty-Ninth Volunteer Infantry, serving for two years in Luzon. A group of prominent white citizens, in appreciation of his patriotic service, secured a position for him on the police force in Kansas City, Missouri. He was buried with full military honors.
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49TH REG. U.S. ARMY
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
STATIONED AT LUZON, P.I.
1899
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